Example sentences of "after he [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A series of strange events have happened in the building which can be traced to the ghost of an old railwayman , and more recently the spirit of an art student who unfortunately got hooked on hard drugs , which combined with drink killed him after he had attended the celebration party to launch the Horizon Recording Studio . |
| 2 | The Mayors of York would often stay and hunt here , but the glory was short-lived , for William died eight years after he had built the house . |
| 3 | Oliver Cromwell , a Puritan , raised his New Model Army , with the support of Parliament , after he had observed the defeat of the Parliamentary forces at Edgehill , in which the King 's General of horses , Prince Rupert , played havoc with the footsoldiers with cavalry charges . |
| 4 | And later he was cruel , a wife-beating drunkard , after he had destroyed the Highlands in a storm of hailstones and fire . ’ |
| 5 | An element in a number of such cases is a tendency to apply the tests more strictly when the application is made by the plaintiff , after he had selected the forum , especially where the application concerns his own evidence . |
| 6 | He did this after he had cut the grooves for the second time in the stretchers . |
| 7 | He continued to serve the Corbetts , for example , as manorial steward , after he had inherited the Newton freehold . |
| 8 | 10 And after he had seen the vision , immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia , assuredly " gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them . |
| 9 | General Schwarzkopf demanded that JSTARS be rushed into service for Desert Storm after he had seen the system tested in a NATO exercise . |
| 10 | In South Australia another Royal Commission had raised doubts concerning the judgement of ALP Premier Bannon , the national party president , who was forced to provide a A$970 million rescue package for the state bank only months after he had assured the legislature that he had every confidence in the bank . |
| 11 | John was rarely seen in Blackpool ; after he had written the outline for the summer show he put assistant directors in charge of rehearsals . |
| 12 | An IDF patrol killed a Jordanian soldier on Jan. 7 , 1990 , after he had crossed the border near Hamat Gader . |
| 13 | After he had crossed the line he did a somersault in celebration . |
| 14 | They returned to India a fortnight later , but when Norris was shot only hours after he had entertained the players with a convivial cocktail party at his private residence , the violence struck a personal chord . |
| 15 | Even Laurie Mains , the All Black selector whose face rather appears like a grave image when he is interviewed on television , managed a quiet smile after he had superintended the selection of the 30 All Blacks who are touring Australia at the moment and will later play one cataclysmic test against South Africa . |
| 16 | The designs were by Hanns Ebensten , his last collaboration with John , because he gave up his ambitions to make a career in stage design after he had visited the homes of two other ballet designers , both highly regarded and much in demand , but both living in very modest circumstances . |
| 17 | Some of these pages round off the last bits of The Childhood after he had sent the bulk of it , with Frost 's approval , to Eleanor Farjeon for typing . |
| 18 | ‘ And after the Venerable Dorn had rescued the mutilated , charred living corpse of the Emperor in the wake of that direst of victories against the renegade Horus , ’ declaimed moon-faced combat-Chaplain Lo Chang in chapel ; ‘ and after he had overseen the construction of the Golden Throne , guided by the Emperor 's mighty spirit as He lay in life-support ; and after Rogal Dorn had witnessed the transfer of that unquenchable divine husk into the Great Psychoprosthetic Throne , lo , afterwards our Primarch lived for another four hundred and thirteen years … ’ |
| 19 | He was pulled over by a policeman who verbally abused him after he had challenged the officer 's authority . |
| 20 | Again , he bowed his head to the child , and when she 'd run off , he tapped again on the wall , and when the boy from the cafe appeared , he handed him the bird and asked him to keep it in his cellar for coolness until he returned from Riba on the train that evening , after he had collected the rent . |
| 21 | David Hagen , meanwhile , played from the start for the first time in Rangers ' colours and scored after he had knocked the ball over Tortolano 's head inside the penalty box , killed it on his chest and then struck a volley beyond Burridge . |
| 22 | David Fairfax knelt beside her and helped her after he had got the record-player going again . |
| 23 | Stalin 's attitude towards France remained as contemptuous after he had signed the pact as it had been before . |
| 24 | Turning a quarter circle away from the mosque towards the setting sun , through the early evening heat haze I could see the distant silhouette of the Qutab Minar , the tower of victory built by the first Sultan immediately after he had driven the Hindus from Delhi in 1192 . |
| 25 | After he had put the phone down , he looked at his watch before the inevitable fingers pushed through his hair , forcing it back , and reached for his glasses , that magic movement that turned him back to Dr Rafaelo . |
| 26 | In the second case ( Reg. v. Morris ) the defendant had in similar manner switched price labels on goods in a supermarket but was not arrested until after he had passed the check-out point and paid the lesser prices for the goods . |
| 27 | There were lots more , there were even one or two who , like Albert ‘ Bertie ’ Gomes , had more than just a tentative grasp of the deadly art of Trinidadian politics and finally there was Uriah Butler , who in 1946 — ten years after he had instigated the oil field demonstrations — led the most successful campaign in the first elections under universal suffrage . |
| 28 | After he had released the ropes , the huge crowd watched as Simon began to ascend rather than descend the pole . |
| 29 | Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer named a new Cabinet on Jan. 31 after he had requested the resignation of those ministers who had announced their intention not to contest the general election which was due later in 1990 . |
| 30 | ‘ I still say I should go in with you , ’ Laidlaw urged after he had parked the car outside Barak 's house . |