Example sentences of "after [pos pn] mother [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after my mother had died , I had noticed a gap in the familiar contours of the furniture in the room leading out of the sitting-room — it was where the shop had once been , entered then via the yard gate and a large open porch . |
| 2 | After her mother had died , and despite his own grief , he 'd done everything possible to help her forget . |
| 3 | It appeared that Mr Rochester , who had known Adèle and her mother very well , had brought Adèle back to England to live with him after her mother had died . |
| 4 | Ianthe remembered as she walked along looking for number 28 that her dressmaker had lived very near here , but somehow , after she had made one or two mourning dresses for her after her mother had died , Ianthe had lost touch with her . |
| 5 | It was after her mother had come home from a solitary trip to Rome . |
| 6 | The staff nurse said that she had thought it strange that this statement should have been volunteered ‘ out of the blue ’ moments after her mother had arrived . |
| 7 | Now he recalled how , on the second night after his mother had left home , he had climbed out of bed in the late evening and slipped unnoticed from the house to run over a mile to Bournemouth Central Railway Station to catch a train to nearby Christchurch , where his mother had gone to live with her sister . |
| 8 | A bit correct for a small boy , a little formal , but they had been his proxy parents for school terms after his father 's death , and after his mother had taken off with Herbie . |