Example sentences of "after [pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next morning , after I had drunk some coffee and sat for an hour with the first suggestions of boredom stirring inside me , the Feldwebel who had enjoyed the ride in the Mercedes so much came to the door . |
| 2 | Mark : I never fantasized about particular sexual activities until after I had had sexual activities . |
| 3 | I think Mrs Stove was a little worried about trusting her daughter to me that particular summer , as it was the one after I 'd struck young Paul down in his prime , but at nine years of age I was an obviously happy and well-adjusted child , responsible and well-spoken and , when it was mentioned , demonstrably sad about my younger brother 's demise . |
| 4 | ‘ The music company wanted new product fast before the headster time ended so I dashed it off one afternoon after I 'd dropped some A. Goodness , some of the interpretations people came up with ! |
| 5 | I 'm supposed to be resting , but after I 'd had forty winks , I felt a lot better , so I toddled over here . |
| 6 | Owen loved the bustle of the bazaars , of the whole native city , in fact ; but after you had spent some time in them , especially when it was as hot as this , you felt an overwhelming need for space and air , and after forcing their way through the blocked thoroughfares of the Tentmakers ' Bazaar they were glad to emerge into the more open streets . |
| 7 | In a passage like this ( and there are several very like it , as we shall see ) , Pound 's interest in Aeneas is limited to the matter of his semidivine birth , how he was conceived by Aphrodite after she had assumed human form so as to lie with Anchises . |
| 8 | She would open them after she had made some coffee . |
| 9 | during the break , after we had done this segment of the film and had gone into the canteen for lunch , all the people who had been working on the film were whistling the song . |
| 10 | After we had sampled 3000 vehicles at the three sites , we found that there was virtually no difference in the speed between the two classes of drivers . |
| 11 | It was only when I felt safe with you , and after we had spent some hours working on our poems , that we would go down to the restaurant for late dinner , which always ended with either banana or ‘ flan ’ . |
| 12 | After we had greeted each other and ordered coffee , Leslie walked in . |
| 13 | After we had rescued these people we decided to have a look at some other floods . |
| 14 | Note added in proof : The accompanying paper by Schlesinger and Ramankutty , which was shown to us after we had submitted this paper , also considers the relative importance of greenhouse , sulphate aerosol and solar forcing . |
| 15 | After we 'd done five songs they turned the disco on dead loud . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He gave me a cheque once , after we 'd done some work on the pool at ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 17 | Elizabeth agreed to do our programme after we 'd spent five years gently hammering at her representatives — and of course we were n't the only people after her , the whole world was beating at her door . |
| 18 | Even after they had received total protection status , beluga numbers in the St Lawrence continued to decline , and autopsies of dead whales during the 1980s revealed astonishing levels of toxic chemicals — in particular organochlorines such as PCBs , the insecticides DDT and mirex , and dioxin . |
| 19 | Carlo walked her back to her hotel , after they had eaten baked swordfish and a tender salad at a small restaurant he knew . |
| 20 | After they had reached that decision Michael began to cry and would not be consoled . |
| 21 | They left the coast after they had harvested any catch-crops and grazed the stubble , to arrive in the south for the date harvest , feeding their animals on fodder-dates and forage crops until it was time to return north . |
| 22 | Some dealers at various firms would sell specific USM stocks on the account immediately after they had bought enormous quantities of the same shares for themselves . |
| 23 | Many points were still obscure in the 1930s , notably how relapses could occur in subjects long after they had left malarial regions and remained healthy for months with no sign of parasites in their blood . |
| 24 | Some such unfortunates ultimately abandoned the East Indiamen for a place in the pilot service in India , after they had acquired sufficient influence with important passengers to secure such an appointment , while others might take a place as an officer of one of the so-called country ships , which operated only in the East and did not return to Europe . |
| 25 | But the clinching reasons were national : alarm at the soaring cost of German unity and fury at the government 's recent decision to raise taxes , after it had said last year that it would not . |
| 26 | The Israeli delegation rejoined the talks on Nov. 12 after it had received written US assurances that Hallaj 's membership of the PNC had lapsed in 1991 . |
| 27 | The party won its right to a place on the ballot after it had gathered 96,000 signatures on a petition . |
| 28 | Towards the end of the fifteenth century the King was beginning to lose his power to amend a statute after it had passed both Houses : the statute as presented to him was coming to be regarded as the final legal form , which he could only reject or accept in toto . |
| 29 | Woolley met her in a Belgian hospital in the summer of 1916 , after he had broken both ankles in a forced landing . |
| 30 | An FPÖ federal deputy , Helmut Weiss , was in October 1989 forbidden by the FPÖ chair , Haider , to take up his seat in the Nationalrat and was also obliged to give up his seat in the Bundesrat , after he had made controversial statements about the Nazi era . |