Example sentences of "after [pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could also be entitled Stop Press , for it occurred after I had sent the first draft to the Hon. |
| 2 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 3 | After I 'd spent the last two days setting it up ? ’ |
| 4 | She put a great many potatoes on my plate after she had served the hot salmon . |
| 5 | After she had swallowed the sleeping tablets , Carolyn slept for fourteen hours . |
| 6 | After a moment or two , after she had heard the front door close , she put down the saucepan and the spoon . |
| 7 | And after she had done the latter ? |
| 8 | They fell in love , and after she had obtained the necessary dispensation , married ; she then nursed him through his long illness . |
| 9 | But after she had finished the first part of her lecture ; after slightly nodding her head to the generous applause ; after the lights had gone up again ; after Ashenden had said ( as every chairman since Creation had said ) how much everyone had enjoyed the talk and how grateful everyone was that not only had the distinguished speaker fascinated each and every one of them but also had agreed to answer any questions which he was absolutely sure everyone in the room was aching to put to such a distinguished expert in the field … it was only then that Dr Moule was able to survey the two intruders . |
| 10 | After she had scattered the last few blooms , she went and gave the girl a five pound note , Ulster Bank pounds , not punts . |
| 11 | At the OK Corral — as she preferred to call what some of its visitors termed her quim ( the phrase struck her as useful after she 'd seen the Western ) — some men proved themselves and others came to grief , and both kinds had male competitors on their mind and wanted to outgun them . |
| 12 | As an acoustic duo they took the name Right Said Fred ( suggested by a girlfriend of Fred 's after she 'd heard the 1962 Bernard Cribbins novelty hit of that name on the radio . |
| 13 | For the same social reasons , she always made us listen to the Queen 's Christmas broadcast to the Commonwealth , after we had eaten the annual rabbit pie with suet crust . |
| 14 | Not long after we had reached the Old parsonage and climbed the stairs to Michael 's rooms , Father D'Arcy arrived . |
| 15 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
| 16 | In the report which played mainly on the results of the trade union studies information unit survey the survey was only taken shortly after we had commenced the new education system therefore the figures are not necessarily reflected today . |
| 17 | Sally confesses : ‘ We realized , after we 'd had the dividing wall rebuilt between the front room and the back parlour , that it was impossible to get in or out of the back parlour , since we 'd also had the doorway closed off and made into a display case for the tortoiseshell medical implements Peter collects . |
| 18 | And then after they had reached the other end , erm one of the men would go and stand in the middle of the two and the and the other sitting down . |
| 19 | She remembered it later on , after they had inspected the three pretty bedrooms and the wonderful bathroom with its big bath and tiled frieze of mermaids ; and she debated within herself whether or not she had better tell Susan . |
| 20 | She stopped trying to move herself voluntarily , and relied on nurses to move her arm and leg for her , so that their task was to ensure that she was always correctly positioned in relation to her spasticity , after they had performed the normal nursing duties of bathing her and helping her on and off the commode . |
| 21 | Paul Ware scored the goal which won the Autoglass Trophy Southern Area final for Stoke after they had drawn the first leg against Peterborough 3–3 . |
| 22 | Formerly Prime Minister in the Croatian government formed by the right-wing Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) in May , he had been elected to the Presidency by the Croatian Assembly in August after it had recalled the communist Stipe Suvar . |
| 23 | It is unlikely that the ILP retained more than half its membership one year after it had left the Labour Party . |
| 24 | The march was allowed by police to pass into the vast Manezh Square beside the Kremlin walls after it had overspilled the intended venue for its concluding rally , outside the Moscow city soviet building on Gorky Street , but a heavy police cordon prevented the marchers from entering nearby Red Square . |
| 25 | Her temperament had not changed , that was plain , but her moral nature had , as his had changed after he had discovered the wretched and hopeless poverty of the homes from which the soldiers who had served him had come . |
| 26 | Chicago 's solid Democratic tradition — the Republican Party last won the mayor 's office in 1927 — meant that Daley 's re-election was virtually certain after he had secured the Democratic nomination by winning 63.5 per cent of the vote in the primary on Feb. 26 , 1990 . |
| 27 | McAvennie was particularly unlucky to see his angled shot sneak inches wide of the post after he had done the hard work by walking the ball round Smelders . |
| 28 | He would tell friends that , if , after he had taken the Civil Service Competition in 1946 , he had been offered the Treasury instead of the Ministry of Civil Aviation , he would have stayed in Whitehall and eschewed a political career . |
| 29 | About a week after he had taken the stable , a Land Rover swept round the drive at high speed and disgorged its chamber of horrors — his family . |
| 30 | After he had taken the old man to the station , Nick sat in the garden and read . |