Example sentences of "after having [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After having carefully removed the browned edge of the fillet he sliced the meat quickly and evenly . |
| 2 | After having carefully measured my horse 's girth and length from point of withers to top of tail , I discovered with some astonishment that my horse weighed 954 million pounds . |
| 3 | The new hero , like Don Quixote , gets it wrong by study , but unlike Quixote he gets it right ( more or less ) by living , and he characteristically needs to educate himself by life after having partly de-educated himself through books . |
| 4 | The Times noted ‘ fruit trees which had begun to blossom after having long ceased ’ . |
| 5 | Like visiting the Sistine Chapel after having only read the Thames & Hudson Michelangelo in braille . |
| 6 | Tutwiler 's statement came amidst reports of growing bitterness among Kurdish leaders who claimed that the US administration had failed to support them after having initially encouraged their movement . |
| 7 | Its major aim , as will appear , is to demonstrate that the crucial medical-legal decision is not switching off a ventilator , but rather , switching it on , either initially or after having once turned it off . |
| 8 | He could n't admit it to Pam , but he was more than a little disturbed by the fact that the Triad enforcer had escaped Springfield 's dragnet , after having almost killed Grant . |