Example sentences of "after [pers pn] had [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For several years that basic idea of using a flight simulator kept coming up in my mind and it was in 1974 , after I had attended the meeting of the Accident Investigation Division of ICAO in Montreal , that I was discussing this same problem with Bernard Caiger of the Canadian National Research Council . |
| 2 | After I had fired the frame they would want to look through the camera and would actually retake it with his own finger , saying ‘ It looks better like this . ’ |
| 3 | Pip 's servant at Barnard 's Inn , whom he nicknames ‘ the Avenger ’ because ‘ after I had made the monster ( out of the refuse of my washerwoman 's family ) and had clothed him with a blue coat , canary waistcoat , white cravat , creamy breeches , and [ top boots ] , I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat ; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence ’ . |
| 4 | After I had fled the room , I could hear him say to her , ‘ She 's not even trying . |
| 5 | The confidence was knocked out of me after I had won a scholarship at the age of eleven and was sent to a school in Hampshire . |
| 6 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 7 | When we found it and after I had thanked every sea god for my luck and promised never to make the same stupid mistake again , I gingerly inspected the Seayak for damage . |
| 8 | At age seven I decided that I wanted to be a soldier , after I had watched a TV programme about the D-Day landings . |
| 9 | After I had left the laboratory , I escaped into the country outside the town . |
| 10 | My involvement with the tunnel did not extend to the rail link which was decided after I had left the department . |
| 11 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 12 | Well erm he t in the Spring after you had turned the cattle out , the the sheds you know , the cattle it would be full of manure . |
| 13 | Then , after you had sent the letter , Stapleton persuaded you not to meet Sir Charles after all . ’ |
| 14 | After you had slain the lady , you took one of her cloaks as well as the ring from her finger . |
| 15 | Then after you had finished the sowing , that would be the next job . |
| 16 | And how came you to know of it , if it befell , as it seems , after you had left the Lord Owen ? ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | These independent structures are then transformed to dependent ones : " After she had swept the room " , etc. , and made part of a complex sentence . |
| 19 | After she had swept the room , she scrubbed the floor . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She cocked her head to one side after she had posed the question . |
| 23 | 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 . " |
| 24 | After she had oiled the hinges , she paused a moment before lumbering up the stairs . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | After she had polished the furniture , she cleaned the windows . |
| 28 | The statute imposed on a woman seeking an abortion a 24-hour waiting period after she had received the information stipulated by the law . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 : |