Example sentences of "after [pron] have first " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a remarkable coincidence this book arrived on my desk for review a matter of weeks after I had first seen it and browsed through it in a bookshop in Kathmandu . |
| 2 | To begin with you can not see the animal at all , but after you have first noticed it , it becomes obvious . |
| 3 | She found the wrecker 's yard down an alley just behind the station , about an hour and a half after she had first arrived there on the train . |
| 4 | We arrived back in Funchal some twelve hours after we had first caught the bus . |
| 5 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 6 | Purchasers should be encouraged to meet with potential acquisition candidates at the earliest opportunity after they have first been approached . |
| 7 | In 1868 , a mere two years after he had first begun his course in Cheltenham , he left London and his family again — for good , this time . |
| 8 | Nothing could be less conclusive than this sensational ending to a turgid and inflated romance , nor does Rider Haggard 's elaborate initial paraphernalia of the letter and package coming to the author from Holly after the old man 's death convince one any more successfully of the ‘ tragedy ’ of the lovers than does the equally elaborate account of the ‘ letter and two packets ’ containing Leo Vincey 's family history and Holly 's account of the events of She which , we are asked to believe , reached the author a few years after he had first seen Holly and the golden-haired hero Leo Vincey in a Cambridge street . |
| 9 | Then the inner sanctum ; precisely one hour after he 'd first been called ; he was sure it was deliberate . |