Example sentences of "after he had [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly , in March 1914 , nine days after his thirty-seventh birthday , at one of the lowest ebbs in his fortune ( but soon after he had received a grant from the Royal Literary Fund ) , Thomas speculated in fictional form upon another path his life might have taken if he had left grammar school at sixteen and followed his father 's plan of a career in the Civil Service . |
| 2 | And he says Taylor 's public criticism of him after he had missed a penalty against Brazil would have been enough to get the manager the sack on the Continent . |
| 3 | His way of praising me was to say that I wrote as naturally as a hen laying eggs , or to remark , after he had destroyed a work with his criticisms , ‘ Everything I have not marked seems to me either good or excellent . |
| 4 | After he had made a pot of tea they sat near the range and surveyed each other . |
| 5 | You will remember that on the occasion of the first valleys initiative statement we had to raise many points with you in order to persuade the right Hon. Gentleman to come here 24 hours after he had made a statement in Wales . |
| 6 | It was also felt that it was a company which nobody could attack on the grounds of political bias in favour of the project — if anything , thought Walsh , the other way round , after he had seen a portrait of Margaret Thatcher prominently displayed in its Ealing headquarters . |
| 7 | Mr Roebuck employed the antiquarian draughtsman and architect John Carter to design the castle , probably after he had seen a design for ‘ a Gothic Mansion ’ by the latter , published in the Builder 's Magazine . |
| 8 | The results confirmed his diagnosis and after he had written a report for Jack 's own GP transport was arranged to take the patient home to rest . |
| 9 | Rush 's club landmark came just a week after he had reached a scoring milestone for his country . |
| 10 | Wright 's face-saving equaliser came five minutes from time — after he had endured a nightmare display . |
| 11 | Gandhi only began to undertake serious fasts — that is , fasts where there was a danger to his life , as opposed to brief fasts for purposes of spiritual discipline or penance — after he had established a reputation for sanctity and a large following based to some extent on that reputation . |
| 12 | After he had had a spell at Southern League Bedford Town , Palace awarded Roy a Benefit match on 15 March 1961 in token of his services to our club . |
| 13 | Internal NRA correspondence leaked to the Independent newspaper showed that the chief executive , John Bowman , had tried to stop the prosecution from going ahead after he had had a meeting with a senior official from the DoE pollution inspectorate . |
| 14 | After he had had a sandwich m the Market Burger House , he loaded the van with small stuff to be returned and went out delivering . |
| 15 | Often the furniture looked lost after he had left a room and because of this Endill soon learnt to tell where his father had been in the house . |
| 16 | A dealer who refused to pay Sotheby 's after he had bought a work by the artist Marc Chagall at auction last year , has been ordered by a court in Amsterdam to pay the auction house DFl. 27,000 ( £8,400 ; $14,700 ) . |
| 17 | Vladimir Ulyanov — who chose to use the name of ‘ Lenin'-had been exiled to Siberia in 1895 after he had founded a Union for the liberation of the working classes . |
| 18 | Here James 's own marriage of convenience to Margaret Tudor took place in 1503 , after he had sired a number of children on various mistresses . |