Example sentences of "after [pron] have [been] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 2 | I used to have quite a complex about being beaten , but I met Liz after I 'd been beaten hollow all year and she still married me . ’ |
| 3 | A letter from her killer and kidnapper to West Yorkshire Police claimed that after she had been beaten unconscious , then strangled , her body had been kept in a wheelie-bin for two days before being taken to where it was later found Easton , near Grantham , Lincs in July 1991 . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ About two weeks after we had been held captive by the Iraqis , one of the air crew told us that there were SAS soldiers on board the plane . |
| 5 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
| 6 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
| 7 | A Christian Science couple in Boston were sentenced to 10 years ' probation on July 6 after they had been found guilty of the manslaughter of their two-year-old son in 1986 . |
| 8 | It is this ability to regenerate that reduces many a garden enthusiast to tears when new flushes of dodder appear , as if from nowhere , on favourite hedges even after they have been pruned bare to get rid of it . |
| 9 | In Florida on Oct. 20 two members of the rap music band " 2 Live Crew " were acquitted on obscenity charges for having performed songs from their album As Nasty as They Wan na Be , although a retailer had been convicted of selling the record after it had been declared obscene by a federal district judge on June 6 . |
| 10 | Later , legs and a handle were added to convert the vessel into a sauce-boat , perhaps long after it had been made obsolete as a feeding vessel by the introduction of the first feeding bottles . |
| 11 | She found the green carpet in a neighbouring flat , after it had been left empty . |
| 12 | He had not come back after he had been given general advice , and he had what he describes as an uneasy peace in the relationship with his girlfriend . |
| 13 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 14 | After he had been found guilty of homosexual offences and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour , the press subjected Oscar Wilde to vicious attack . |