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Discover LudwigThe phrase "afterwards he started" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that an action took place following a previous event or action.
Example: "After finishing his homework, afterwards he started playing video games."
Alternatives: "subsequently he began" or "then he commenced".
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Afterwards, he started petitioning the theatre company, Corcadorca, to give him an audition.
Shortly afterwards, he started going out with the Spice Girls singer Victoria Adams and a match made in tabloid heaven was born.
Afterwards he started screaming, "Get out, get out of my flat," so I left.
Rather than starting with percussion first and layering vocals on top afterwards, he "started with the vocalized lyrics and then put chords around that and, based on the lyrics, put sounds around that fit the character of the song," as he explained to Magnetic Magazine.
Afterwards he started singing "Mommy is the best, yum, yum".
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"You don't really think when it happens that it affects you, but afterwards, when he started to recover, I thought back about those weeks after it happened and it was a really tough time.
Shortly afterwards, when he started writing songs, the youngster would pray "to write a song as good as that and meet someone like Glen Campbell who can sing it".
Only afterwards did he start to look worried.
Since contraction had not yet occurred the following day, she chewed "eiyabuya" and afterwards she started to have contraction and bleeding.
Before I was Maria Grazia, afterwards they started calling me "La Cucinotta".
Soon afterwards they started venturing into deeper water using various toy floats.
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