Example sentences of "after [pron] [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A thrilling squeal goes up from the mid-teen moshers who comprise a high proportion of the audience when they see Hetfield striding to the stage-front for the opening ‘ Enter Sandman ’ guitar in hand , after everyone had been resigned to the quaint prospect of their fave leonine frontman reduced to a vocals-only role due to his injured left hand . |
| 2 | Lorry driver Bill , 51 , of Merthyr Tydfil , South Wales , said yesterday : ‘ I was in so much pain I could n't dress myself after I had been examined and needed a wheelchair . ’ |
| 3 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 4 | After I had been kept waiting for a few moments in an ante-room , I was ushered into the main boardroom where Dr Barton and six colleagues were seated around a long , rectangular , polished table . |
| 5 | By their very quality and integrity they continued for several years after I had been graduated from the post of Talks Producer to higher echelons of musical and dramatic productions . |
| 6 | ‘ After I had been criticised for employing ‘ Lady Merchiston ’ and ‘ your ladyship ’ , I finally found that compromise which she accepted . |
| 7 | I used to have quite a complex about being beaten , but I met Liz after I 'd been beaten hollow all year and she still married me . ’ |
| 8 | He admitted : ‘ Lawrie McMenemy took me off at half- time in Spain after I 'd been booked . |
| 9 | Long after I 'd been smothered in bed |
| 10 | What occurred after I left was related to me by the men of the village , when I paid the district a second visit some months later . |
| 11 | Can you imagine getting dragged down to Lord 's only after you 'd been hung up by every sports page in the country ? |
| 12 | ‘ After you had been presented to our gracious Queen , last summer , you followed custom by having your photograph taken in all your finery . ’ |
| 13 | How would he seem to be calling her now after she had been entranced in his arms ? |
| 14 | She then pointed to the recipe — Turkish Stuffing for a whole Roast Sheep — delighted by the disparity between the thought of this sheep and the few ounces of meat a week which begun jotting down recipes for this book after she had been sent back to England in 1945 , owing to her health , from New Delhi , where she had been living with her husband . |
| 15 | Vanessa Atkinson , 20 , died in intensive care 10 hours after she had been treated and sent back to work after complaining of leg pains . |
| 16 | The night-time , the time after she had been tucked up in bed , that was the proper time for Fenna , for flying and dreams . |
| 17 | Australian DJ Brian White told his listeners that a drunken journalist had approached Kylie after she had been presented with an award and asked her if she felt ashamed to have won it in a room full of so many talented people . |
| 18 | A letter from her killer and kidnapper to West Yorkshire Police claimed that after she had been beaten unconscious , then strangled , her body had been kept in a wheelie-bin for two days before being taken to where it was later found Easton , near Grantham , Lincs in July 1991 . |
| 19 | Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms . |
| 20 | They insisted she had insulted counter girls after she had been refused discount on a slinky black evening dress which she saw hanging on a rail in the fashionable Hyper Hyper clothes store in London 's Kensington High Street . |
| 21 | After she had been introduced to him he had sent her to get him a cup of coffee , but not before patting her behind . |
| 22 | The conditional bail had been granted after she had been arrested for shouting ‘ scab ’ at working miners . |
| 23 | After she had been arrested for playing the two-backed beast with Culpepper — and me , though I was n't caught , but there again that 's another tale — the king 's guards came to take her whilst she was staying at Hampton Court . |
| 24 | I also remember right from when she was a baby as I went to see her after she had been brought home . |
| 25 | Aung San Suu Kyi 's expulsion from the NLD , some two months after she had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize , was the latest attempt by the ruling junta , the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , to undermine her position as the main symbol of opposition to military rule . |
| 26 | Even after she had been caught in that ruined church with Ginger Higby , that old bitch of a commandant in the women 's ambulance service had n't wanted to lose her . |
| 27 | She remembered Rob , the eldest boy , named after her mama 's father who had died in Arizona , saying to her one day , after she had been caught riding bareback at her uncle Orrin 's ranch in Wyoming , ‘ What a pity you were n't a boy , Sally-Anne ; we could have had such fun together . ’ |
| 28 | After she had been applauded and gone out again , Mick announced that he would now demonstrate his Fred Astaire number . |
| 29 | ‘ The farmer 's son brought a beautiful mare to be shod ; and after she 'd been done he asked the guv'nor what he thought on her . |
| 30 | She had a heart operation just 3 days after she 'd been born . |