Example sentences of "[adv] after the [noun sg] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | So after the combine had been I used to open the two gates to the field ; let 'em in through one and drive 'em almost straight away out through the other . ’ |
| 2 | They could get hot water , but only after the fire had been going for a while and the back boiler had heated up . |
| 3 | In the end , what most people believed would happen did happen — but only after the manager had been led to think it would n't . |
| 4 | It involved hard work and long discussions , dealing with fears , anxieties and practical problems , which needed to continue long after the child had been placed . |
| 5 | Despite all her efforts to ignore it the sensation lingered on to torment her long after the contact had been broken . |
| 6 | The grandest exposition of the Grand Iranian Design was given on November 14th , 1986 , just after the operation had been disclosed . |
| 7 | The south-facing classical façade was built on in about 1708 , just after the house had been bought by an affluent salter from Bradford on Avon called William Chandler . |
| 8 | The final document provided for a powerful president and inevitably , shortly after the constitution had been promulgated , Kaysone Phomvihane was elected President . |
| 9 | It would seem that the old wall did not finally disappear altogether until the eighth-century , well after the city had been devastated by the Goths . |
| 10 | In study 2 , the same ‘ flooding dose ’ procedure was carried out except that an operative liver biopsy , approximately 200 mg , was taken immediately after the abdomen had been opened . |
| 11 | In a recent well-publicised controversy a group of scientists claimed to have obtained results whereby water that once had a certain substance in it continued to behave as if the substance was present even after the substance had been removed ; as if the water retained a ‘ memory ’ of the substance . |
| 12 | Even after the Committee had been disbanded , the officially sponsored League Conference had called for its reformation and supported participation in the National Youth Campaign , an offshoot of the Communist-controlled British Youth Peace Assembly . |
| 13 | The issue seemed to be settled when a number of studies were carried out that showed that animals and humans still regulated their food intake even after the stomach had been removed , an experimental procedure analogous to ablation of part of the CNS . |