Example sentences of "so [adv] after [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered how she could ever have thought that she loved him , and why she had stayed with him for so long after she 'd realised that if she ever had , she did not love him now . |
| 2 | But they do so only after they 've had their seven rehearsals . ’ |
| 3 | She could n't even feel resentful that he slept so peacefully after she had suffered a sleepless night of angst . |
| 4 | Would they dare risk alienating public opinion so soon after they had regained it ? |
| 5 | ‘ How strange , ’ the majordomo was saying , ‘ another honourable Inquisitor presenting his credentials so soon after we have seen the last one off ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And so soon after we were discussing it , too , but then you keep doing it . |
| 7 | ‘ My love , ’ he said , ‘ what was so urgent that you had to summon me so soon after we parted yesterday afternoon ? |
| 8 | ‘ Must we wrangle so soon after we meet again , Papa ? |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd hate to lose you , so soon after I 've found you . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ In coming to his friend 's assistance so soon after he himself had suffered a serious heart attack he put his health at risk . ’ |
| 11 | He was voicing a desire which he feared might only bring him Meh'Lindi 's contempt — so soon after she had honoured and anointed him with her body . |
| 12 | Andrew Walker was bound to have Veronica 's address and telephone number but a request for them , so soon after she had been asking questions about the woman 's husband , might well arouse his suspicions . |
| 13 | It was cold comfort to realize after the event that the drama had been played out by three sick men , whose judgments contributed to this deeply wounding incident in Anglo-American relations : Eisenhower was suffering from ileitis ; Dulles had cancer ; and Eden had a recurrence of the abdominal obstruction that had laid him low once before in 1953 , and was to do so again after he resigned . |