Example sentences of "[adj] after he [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police and MPs have strongly criticized an Old Bailey verdict which allowed a teenage vandal to walk free after he 'd admitted stabbing a neighbour to death . |
| 2 | police and MPs have strongly criticized a teenage vandal to walk free after he 'd admitted stabbing a neighbour to death . |
| 3 | He did this after he had cut the grooves for the second time in the stretchers . |
| 4 | One of his greatest knocks was the 143 at Port-of-Spain in 1968 — this after he had reached breaking-point in 1966 , only to come back with century after century in the 1967 Tests — but he still found touring the Caribbean a fairly distasteful affair , as revealed in his letter to his wife : ‘ We 're being taken for the biggest ride … the umpiring , the crowd and Charlie … it is downright cheating … |
| 5 | The author knows of a client who did this after he had lost a frightful lot of money . |
| 6 | Vladimir Ulyanov — who chose to use the name of ‘ Lenin'-had been exiled to Siberia in 1895 after he had founded a Union for the liberation of the working classes . |
| 7 | Keith Meinhold , a 30-year old petty officer , had been honourably discharged from the navy in August 1991 after he had declared his homosexuality on ABC 's World News Tonight in May . |
| 8 | Often the furniture looked lost after he had left a room and because of this Endill soon learnt to tell where his father had been in the house . |
| 9 | Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer named a new Cabinet on Jan. 31 after he had requested the resignation of those ministers who had announced their intention not to contest the general election which was due later in 1990 . |
| 10 | VENTRILOQUIST Mike Dennett had a drink too many after he got fed up with listening to his wife Gladys . |
| 11 | YAVUZ BINBAY : a shopkeeper and president of the Turkish Human Rights Association , he was severely beaten by police on the morning of 21 March 1992 after he had attended celebrations of Nevruz , the Kurdish New Year ; |
| 12 | The silence was momentary after he 'd spoken . |
| 13 | in his arms and treat and Mr Bumble rushed into the room with great excitement and addressed the gentleman in the high chair said I beg your pardon sir , Oliver Twist has asked for more , there was a for more said compose yourself Bumble and do I understand that he asked for more after he 'd eaten supper he did sir replied Bumble , that boy would be hung I know that boy will be hung |
| 14 | Was it in the 1930s after he had left the Diaghilev company ? |
| 15 | Stalin 's attitude towards France remained as contemptuous after he had signed the pact as it had been before . |
| 16 | Chicago 's solid Democratic tradition — the Republican Party last won the mayor 's office in 1927 — meant that Daley 's re-election was virtually certain after he had secured the Democratic nomination by winning 63.5 per cent of the vote in the primary on Feb. 26 , 1990 . |
| 17 | Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue . |
| 18 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 19 | People feel something like this : ‘ If I knew I did everything I possibly could then I would n't feel so bad after he 's gone ’ . |
| 20 | When Mr Heath sacked him from the Shadow Cabinet in 1968 after he had paraphrased Virgil 's Aeneid and with foreboding claimed to see ‘ the River Tiber foaming with much blood ’ he began a journey into the wilderness . |