Example sentences of "after [pron] had [be] [v-ing] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |