Example sentences of "after they [vb past] gone " in BNC.
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| 1 | I completed my 100 metre strides after they 'd gone , my heels flicking up the divots on to the back of my head . |
| 2 | After they 'd gone , Forster felt the silence physically settle around him . |
| 3 | After they 'd gone , Nell tried a different tactic . |
| 4 | After they 'd gone Sukey paced up and down sipping Evian water . |
| 5 | That would leave her owing Hannah , but she could sort that out later , after they 'd gone . |
| 6 | ‘ You said we must think about what they know from bugging us while we were talking after they 'd gone . ’ |
| 7 | Anyway , after they 'd gone , I just hobbled round to me mates and stayed there for a few weeks . |
| 8 | After they 'd gone , Ann felt free to talk . |
| 9 | After they 'd gone , I sat near the front next to Nick and looked round . |
| 10 | She only mentioned one place after they 'd gone underground and that was where Gustav got married : Sangerhausen . |
| 11 | ‘ After they 'd gone , the father was shaking . |
| 12 | As he pulled the car off the highway into the gas station forecourt , it occurred to him that his only chance now would be if the pump attendant noticed something amiss and called the police after they 'd gone . |
| 13 | After they had gone in and resumed their grind in the usual places , Rose came out to him and said gently , ‘ You were terrible , Daddy , to make them go down to the lake . ’ |
| 14 | After they had gone a complete silence that only reflected itself settled down like lead and was broken only by the sound of Moran removing his boots to go to bed early . |
| 15 | After they had gone , the others sat round the table and discussed them . |
| 16 | After they had gone , he said , he could n't remember whether they 'd said goodbye ; whether they had wrapped their arms around their children for a last loving embrace . |
| 17 | After they had gone , and the tea-things had been removed , she rose from her place and walked up and down . |
| 18 | After they had gone , Harriet took herself for a long walk over the cliffs , but for once the beauty of her surroundings , the early evening light on the sea , the cry of gulls and the distant sound of waves breaking on the shore below , failed to soothe her . |
| 19 | ‘ After they had gone ( they left one evening after dark , Constanza having said that there was one thing Michel refused to put on me — he will have to learn to be a bit less scrupulous , poor lamb — so that she would have to do it , and it was not to let on : ‘ Tell our friends I 've gone to Italy to look after my papa ; as for Michel , he 's God knows where , you do n't know , it 's nobody 's business and they 're used to his comings and goings . ’ |
| 20 | So after they had gone I began to use the tower . |
| 21 | ‘ You should go take Spanish at night school , ’ he said one evening in the Airds ' downstairs lavatory when we were clearing up after they had gone out to dine . |
| 22 | ‘ Poor people , ’ said my mother after they had gone . |
| 23 | The house was very quiet after they had gone . |
| 24 | After they had gone Richard said , ‘ Quite a guy . |
| 25 | Most evenings now he was very cheerful and joked with her and played games with Oliver ; after they had gone to bed he usually went round to the pub to calm his nerves . |
| 26 | After they had gone through the ordeal of giving evidence , their father , who was found guilty of eight serious charges with nine being left on the file , was put on probation and allocated to a hostel not two miles from where his last victim lives and where he can be seen by the family as they pass through the town centre . |
| 27 | After they had gone no more than ten metres they were shot dead . |
| 28 | Curator Andy Saunders commented that the Museum had been ‘ agonising after they had gone into the sale ’ if they were doing the right thing with WA984 and E-412 . |