Example sentences of "[adv] after [pron] had [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radio Lumière was forcibly closed down after it had reported the massacre of 40 peasants by the army in the village of Carrefour , south west of Port-au-Prince . |
| 2 | The new book was to be handed to me by the minister , the Revd Dr Adam Burnet , only after we had signed the register — no self-respecting hotel would have accepted us with different names . |
| 3 | Although this is a legal thing to do in Texas , an uproar over the shameless display of influence-peddling prompted most of the recipients to return the money ( mostly only after they had cashed the cheques ) . |
| 4 | If these trajectories were viewed only after they had reached the attractor , they would illustrate the attractors : the sink as a point in phase space , and the limit cycle attractor as a single closed loop in phase space . |
| 5 | It was only after they had offloaded the stock that the dealers would find out their teamleader had bought up large quantities of it himself . |
| 6 | I did as she said but they were two sizes too big for me ; they fitted better after she had packed the toes with scraps of wool . |
| 7 | Not long after we had reached the Old parsonage and climbed the stairs to Michael 's rooms , Father D'Arcy arrived . |
| 8 | This concept did not become clear in Darwin 's mind until long after he had left the Galapagos . |
| 9 | The village was quiet with only a couple of old men sitting on a bench outside the church as we drove through the gates of the big house and along the road through the village , passing the Chateau where the Commando dead had been placed on the front lawn shortly after we had entered the village , and during the bitter fighting of the first ten days . |
| 10 | In the report which played mainly on the results of the trade union studies information unit survey the survey was only taken shortly after we had commenced the new education system therefore the figures are not necessarily reflected today . |
| 11 | The first of four complaints was that the trial judge exerted undue pressure by sending the jury out to consider their verdict at 5.28 p.m. after they had spent the day listening to the end of the prosecuting counsel 's closing address and the whole of the summing up , but their Lordships consider that this was a reasonable course to have taken . |
| 12 | Turning a quarter circle away from the mosque towards the setting sun , through the early evening heat haze I could see the distant silhouette of the Qutab Minar , the tower of victory built by the first Sultan immediately after he had driven the Hindus from Delhi in 1192 . |
| 13 | Even after he had left the country once more , in January 1979 , this remained his conviction — and the root of hid tragedy . |
| 14 | The wind tugged at the banner-pole that carried his standard , outside at the turret , and made a dolorous creaking sound that accompanied his steps along the chilly corridor , and whined faintly in his ears even after he had closed the door and shut out the sound of the rain . |
| 15 | And then after they had reached the other end , erm one of the men would go and stand in the middle of the two and the and the other sitting down . |
| 16 | Then after you had finished the sowing , that would be the next job . |
| 17 | It was in the afternoon , right after they had brought the McLaren girl over from Fort Thomas . |
| 18 | Obviously they had no idea what lay ahead after they had crossed the bridges and got close to the enemy positions . |