AFTERWARDS


Meaning of AFTERWARDS in English

adverb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

happen

What happened afterwards was stranger still, and equally disgusting.

M Rocard is more hopeful about what could happen afterwards .

Making a decision makes you responsible for what happens afterwards .

The woman whose smear is classified as positive will not get to choose what happens afterwards .

Then - what happened afterwards: she panics, everyone says.

What happens afterwards is variable both from woman to woman and from birth to birth.

It's what happens afterwards that really matters.

say

Ludens said afterwards that it was a sound of protest at this rough handling.

Mr James said afterwards that this was the worst mistake he made.

Everyone said afterwards it was a miracle that more people hadn't been killed or injured.

Doctors said afterwards the overdose was potentially life threatening.

He said afterwards that he would consult his advisers before deciding his next action.

He said afterwards that he thought the explanations he had given regarding the crisis had satisfied the King.

Borg said afterwards that he and Lloyd were just getting the feel of the game when they lost it.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A couple of years afterwards I bumped into her in a supermarket.

His wife fell ill in June and died soon afterwards .

The operation was rather painful, but I felt a lot better afterwards .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But it was all too late, and Wakeling quit soon afterwards .

For a while my wife and I were helpless with laughter, but trying to clean up afterwards taught us a lesson!

I remember the blood on the grass when I came out afterwards .

Immediately afterwards they had a grand Field Day.

In contrast, Ellis showed great form until the dismissal which he said afterwards amazed him.

Other members of their families were upstairs dancing, and afterwards they all walked home in a group.

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