Example sentences of "after [pers pn] had been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 2 | ‘ After I had been criticised for employing ‘ Lady Merchiston ’ and ‘ your ladyship ’ , I finally found that compromise which she accepted . |
| 3 | In a taped interview with Jill Jones , Head of Science in a comprehensive , which I shall quote from several times , I asked her , after she had been talking for a while about the frustrations , what made it all worthwhile . |
| 4 | The conditional bail had been granted after she had been arrested for shouting ‘ scab ’ at working miners . |
| 5 | After she had been arrested for playing the two-backed beast with Culpepper — and me , though I was n't caught , but there again that 's another tale — the king 's guards came to take her whilst she was staying at Hampton Court . |
| 6 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 7 | TUBE passenger Jonathan Zito was stabbed to death in front of his brother just after they had been reunited for Christmas . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 9 | After they had been stranded for about an hour , they heard splashing and noticed a smell of dead fish , then a hissing noise . |
| 10 | Plenty of that , no doubt , in this overgrown , untended woodland , even after it had been combed for firing by the urchins of the Foregate . |
| 11 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |