The phrase "eavesdropping after" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means listening secretly or unintentionally to a conversation or private discussion after it has already started. Example: I couldn't help but overhear my neighbors eavesdropping after their heated argument last night.
By the lucky coincidence of Allen's story, D.J. has eavesdropped after school on sessions conducted by her best friend's analyst mother, and Von is one of the regular patients; thus D.J. knows Von's intellectual passions (Titian), her problems (search for perfection), and how to manipulate her erogenous zones (blow gently between her shoulder blades).
Dennis, easily spooked, relents, and after eavesdropping on Redmond and his wife badmouthing him, decides to continue with the treason.
And then after eavesdropping for years on another century while to all appearances you seem to be folding the socks in this one, a curious thing happens.
Phone companies would be shielded from legal liability for assisting in the Bush administration's program of eavesdropping without warrants after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Mr. Bush said he approved a program for eavesdropping without warrants after consulting with Republicans and Democrats in Congress and lawyers, and called it "a decision I made about protecting this country".
(Favorite line from his first week: What does the two-year-old son of a blogger ask after eavesdropping on his parents? "WHAT IS MICKEY COWS? WHAT IS MICKEY COWS? WHAT? IS? MICKEY? COWS?") Sign up for the daily newsletter.Sign up for the daily newsletter: the best of The New Yorker every day.
WASHINGTON — After months of wrangling, Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress struck a deal on Thursday to overhaul the rules on the government's wiretapping powers and provide what amounts to legal immunity to the phone companies that took part in President Bush's program of eavesdropping without warrants after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Four executives at the day-trading firm of A. B. Watley were arraigned in the United States District Court in Brooklyn yesterday on conspiracy and securities fraud charges stemming from a scheme to reap profits after eavesdropping on confidential conversations between stockbrokers and their clients.
I have to all but physically wrench her back to the interview when she gets distracted by yet another cafe patron who, after eavesdropping on our chat, spends 15 minutes telling Akhavan her life story: "Other people's stories are so fascinating, don't you think?" she says, forcing herself to talk about herself again.
A new study reveals that youngsters make their choices after eavesdropping on the songs of their elders.
It was unlikely that Oumou had become wiser about her mother's health after eavesdropping on that conversation.
