Example sentences of "after [pers pn] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For several years that basic idea of using a flight simulator kept coming up in my mind and it was in 1974 , after I had attended the meeting of the Accident Investigation Division of ICAO in Montreal , that I was discussing this same problem with Bernard Caiger of the Canadian National Research Council . |
| 2 | After I had fired the frame they would want to look through the camera and would actually retake it with his own finger , saying ‘ It looks better like this . ’ |
| 3 | Pip 's servant at Barnard 's Inn , whom he nicknames ‘ the Avenger ’ because ‘ after I had made the monster ( out of the refuse of my washerwoman 's family ) and had clothed him with a blue coat , canary waistcoat , white cravat , creamy breeches , and [ top boots ] , I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat ; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence ’ . |
| 4 | After I had fled the room , I could hear him say to her , ‘ She 's not even trying . |
| 5 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 6 | After I had left the laboratory , I escaped into the country outside the town . |
| 7 | My involvement with the tunnel did not extend to the rail link which was decided after I had left the department . |
| 8 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 9 | After I 'd explained the problems , Mazzin tried to wriggle out of it by going on about blindfolds . |
| 10 | ‘ After I 'd fed the hens , I could n't get out — the sheep had penned me in . |
| 11 | An hour later — after I 'd rejected the offer — I get a phone call … ’ |
| 12 | After I 'd thrown the bag in , I read the instructions and the small print said it would only remove nitrates down to 20ppm . |
| 13 | There was an Audi which passed me soon after I 'd left the pub . |
| 14 | That 's all I ever wanted to do in boxing after I 'd learned the craft and now I want to make a little bit more ’ . |
| 15 | " I saw a hare and after I 'd found the body there was a sparrowhawk , a kestrel . " |
| 16 | After I 'd finished the poem I felt triumphant that I 'd broken my fear-silence . |
| 17 | ROBBIE It was after I 'd had the row with my father . |
| 18 | I did n't really know what was going on after I 'd had the baby . |
| 19 | Dusk deepened until I could no longer see ten yards ahead , and after I 'd knocked the shaft of the arrow against an unseen hazard twice within a minute I stopped and sank slowly down to my knees , resting my forehead and the front of my left shoulder against a young birch trunk , drained as I 'd never been before . |
| 20 | Not long after I 'd started the notebook , I became the proud owner of my first pair of binoculars . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't find out until after I 'd taken the lease on , but the department store on the corner has taken a lot of our casual trade . ’ |
| 22 | I go shopping after I 've fed the baby every morning , and then I come back and start my work . |
| 23 | after I 've seen the family , will be to go to see him . |
| 24 | I was worried why am I bleeding the system after I 've done the radiators and changed them , you know repair the pipe work . |
| 25 | I feel better after I 've done the exam |
| 26 | ‘ After I 've finished the show , I go to the office and photograph the old man 's records . |
| 27 | a after I 've got the card . |
| 28 | ‘ Bring him round for drinks after I 've got the kids to bed , ’ Louise suggested . |
| 29 | I phone Andy and confirm it 's still all right to visit , then I ring Eddie and get the next three days off , tell the cops — they 're based at Fettes , though the DI has gone back down to London , and no they 're still not giving me back my new portable yet — and ( after I 've cleaned the car up a bit ) head out of the city and across the grey bridge in a day of squally , buffeting rain that has the bridge 's 40-limit signs on , high-sided vehicles banned and the 205 dancing its Dunlops sideways as the gusts hit . |
| 30 | I 've got more money , I 've got more money than that and after I 've been , after , after I 've paid , after I 've paid the tax |