Example sentences of "after she have [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | After she had arranged the flowers in the brown pottery jug which stood on her office windowsill , she put the rest in the black glass vase in Luke 's room . |
2 | These independent structures are then transformed to dependent ones : " After she had swept the room " , etc. , and made part of a complex sentence . |
3 | After she had swept the room , she scrubbed the floor . |
4 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |
5 | One job , to paint an ambassador 's wife in Paris , ended in a shouting match after she had altered the canvas overnight , painting in crude alterations to the eyes and mouth . |
6 | She cocked her head to one side after she had posed the question . |
7 | She had become obsessed with Eliot and his work at the age of fourteen , after she had heard a recording of " The Journey of the Magi " : " It was extraordinary , " she said later , " that I felt I just had to get to Tom , to work with him . " |
8 | After she had oiled the hinges , she paused a moment before lumbering up the stairs . |
9 | She smiled , patted Charlotte 's arm and walked slowly away , the clip of her heels on the marble floor lingering even after she had turned a corner and vanished from sight . |
10 | I did as she said but they were two sizes too big for me ; they fitted better after she had packed the toes with scraps of wool . |
11 | After she had polished the furniture , she cleaned the windows . |
12 | The statute imposed on a woman seeking an abortion a 24-hour waiting period after she had received the information stipulated by the law . |
13 | Later as she lay in that bed , after she had eaten a meal in a small cheap cafe in New Oxford Street , she squirmed between sheets of a kind she had never seen before , purple knitted nylon . |
14 | In an interview after she had left the RHA in 1986 , the RNO vividly captured the way in which the pressure of the moment was telling on her team : |
15 | She expected that , after she had left the kitchen , Johnny would have followed her here , to the sitting room . |
16 | They had lain dormant for some years after she had left the cottage , but he knew now they had simply been growing in the warm darkness of his being where love bred … |
17 | Rourke had made no move to contact her after she had left the office yesterday morning , and that had to mean that she had been right in her assumptions . |
18 | Somehow she got herself out of the room , and up the stairs before anyone appeared to speak to her , tore off her clothes , and then hid the betraying underwear in a Gladstone bag which she later threw off Waterloo Bridge after she had left the embassy , pretending to go with Laura Parslow on her European tour , but actually having hired herself out to J. D. O'Connor , and gone to the East End . |
19 | After she had gulped the pancake , she picked up a shrimp and ate that saying : ‘ I like that . ’ |
20 | ‘ The salt cellar has a finger mark on it , Sarah , ’ said the housekeeper one morning , after she had spent an hour on the silver . |
21 | A BRIDE-TO-BE had two wedding rings and cash stolen from her Sandy Row home last Saturday — just a day after she had bought the rings . |
22 | So , only three days after she had got the sack , she caught a train — drawn by a diesel called Peter Pan — from Liverpool Street into Suffolk . |
23 | The doorbell rang a few minutes after she had opened the lid of her case and returned downstairs to make herself a cup of tea . |
24 | But she was gone , she had run down in the thick tree shadows to a side street , was down that and in the busy main street within sixty seconds after she had thrown the stone . |
25 | After she had put the phone down , she felt in a daze . |
26 | After she had scrubbed the floor , she polished the furniture . |
27 | She said after she 'd seen the Solicitor and er had a good talk to me |
28 | Her arms hugged around herself , she stood in the phone-box for a long time after she 'd replaced the receiver and it seemed quite incomprehensible to her now that she had n't contacted her mother before . |
29 | ‘ We 've got the key your wife gave you after she 'd deposited the clothes and the blood-stained sheets — ’ |
30 | Mrs , my friend , Mrs Goreng was all over me after she 'd sobbed a bit over Kaptan . |