Example sentences of "[adv] after he have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He first noticed a young boy early one summer , about a year or so after he had taken over Entwhistle Halt . |
| 2 | His mother would come down after he 'd gone and go " Tsk , tsk " , and smile indulgently at his messy habits . |
| 3 | For Constantine , especially after he had given Christianity a mandate in his domains , it was advantageous to establish a new divine covenant , a new ratification from the sacred . |
| 4 | It was only after he had reached for it that he realized he was carrying my groceries around . |
| 5 | He translated for us and it was only after he had argued our case with the Head of Austrian Customs that we started to get somewhere . |
| 6 | It was only after he had gone that they realized they had never asked his name or where he lived . |
| 7 | In this instance Mrs Whitehouse had drawn the play to the attention of the Director , and instituted proceedings only after he had declined to prosecute . |
| 8 | They included Henri de Lubac , later to be raised to the rank of cardinal , though only after he had retreated from the more extreme position on the relationship between nature and grace he had adopted in 1946 in his book Surnaturel ; Marie-Dominique Chenu , one of whose books was placed on the Index in 1942 for daring to suggest that Thomas Aquinas ought to be studied against the history of his times ; and Yves Congar , who survived to become one of the leading theologians of Vatican II . |
| 9 | It was only after he had asked for the bill that he said something that had her on guard again , although there was nothing about his lazy , ‘ Enjoy the party , did you , by the way ? ’ that should have caused her muscles — including her tongue muscles , it seemed — to instantly tighten . |
| 10 | Sauniere achieved this only after he had started renovating his church at Rennes-le-Chateau ; a fact that did n't escape the attention of the Church or the villagers . |
| 11 | And only after he had paid back every penny of his debt on the new barrow and been left with hardly any spare cash to talk of did he begin to realise just how good a costermonger the old fellow must have been . |
| 12 | An eventful race for Derek Warwick brought the British driver ninth place but only after he had wiped off a nose cone on his Arrows when he tangled with Nelson Piquet 's Lotus . |
| 13 | Only after he had left is he free , in the absence of express restraint , to make use of the latter though never the former . |
| 14 | Whether the court 's approach in cases such as Bjorlow would also be adopted even if the employee made use of or disclosed business secrets during employment has not been determined : in Bjorlow , the defendant made use of the information only after he had left . |
| 15 | Hamnett 's relationship with Bertelsen foundered early last year , but only after he had opened an extravagant shop the size of an aircraft hangar for her , designed by Norman Foster in trendy Brompton Cross , South Kensington . |
| 16 | Only after he had set to work , at Halley 's urging , on the tract that eventually became the first book of the Principia did Newton abandon vortices and envisage attractive — and repulsive — forces in central bodies . |
| 17 | Notice that Parkin is able to say what he truly means only after he has broken into dialect . |
| 18 | I believe very much that every artist must first learn the language of his art , the conventions , and only after he has mastered them , can he go on . |
| 19 | The sound rang in my ears long after he had fallen asleep : when Richard sat beside me as I lay on our bed , I thought I could still hear him through the wall . |
| 20 | Woodhouse retained a sense of himself as a shoemaker long after he had gone into the book trade : the title of his most important work ‘ The Life and Lucubrations of Crispinus Scriblerus ’ ( c. 1795 ) is an allusion to one of the patron saints of cobblers . |
| 21 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 22 | Long after Branson had moved his office to the houseboat Duende and was seldom to be seen by most of the Virgin staff ; long after he had ceased to know everyone by name , or even by sight , Branson himself would continue to refer to a special Virgin ‘ atmosphere ’ , barely perceivable to the outside world . |
| 23 | There can be little doubt for instance that the doubtfulness or downright hostility felt towards Eliot by some Americans , particularly in recent decades , derives from the sort of American Eliot was — and remained , long after he had taken British citizenship . |
| 24 | This concept did not become clear in Darwin 's mind until long after he had left the Galapagos . |
| 25 | The name remained in the telephone-book as his address long after he had left . |
| 26 | Ruth was still fuming long after he 'd gone . |
| 27 | Having spent himself , he had still found the will and strength to move away after he had withdrawn from her , so that they lay without touching , the space between them painfully eloquent , the gleaming coppery curve of the shoulder that he presented to her even more hurtful . |
| 28 | She pushed Steve away after he had swung her around in his arms like a rag doll . |
| 29 | And it was just after he 'd flicked through one of them that Detective Constable Hodges ( blast his eyes ! ) had come in , walked over to the newspaper stall , and picked up the top copy but one from the Daily Mirror pile . |
| 30 | Its completely out of character for Rocky to have said this … probably some 3rd rate hack cornered him just after he 'd learnt hed been dropped . |