Example sentences of "after i [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! |
| 2 | Maureen said : ‘ I did n't think about them again until that psychic woman asked for them , but it was only after I had given them to her I realized they were n't his at all . |
| 3 | Think about Felix and his family , who hated me after I had given them love . |
| 4 | After I had seen her , I visited the church and found on the altar a candle bearing the arms of the Cathedral on its base . |
| 5 | One Sunday morning , about a week after I had seen my dad for the second time , I was lying in bed when I heard voices in the street below . |
| 6 | I did it , in fact , habitually , for forty-five minutes each day after I had done my homework . |
| 7 | Apart from himself , " only one man turned up — Frank Foley by name and I enrolled Foley as a member after I had enrolled myself , so that there were then two members of the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union of Great Britain " . |
| 8 | After I had eaten my biscuit I climbed up onto my bunk with the chocolate and took off my boots . |
| 9 | As I said to my husband only last night ( just after I had eaten my miserable Lean Cuisine but just before I finished the box of Black Magic ) : ‘ Is n't it terrible the way we allow advertisers to manipulate us ? ’ |
| 10 | I was armed with a microphone and sent onto the course after I had completed my round . |
| 11 | Then he told me to wait for him after I had visited my father , and said that he would try to think of a way to help me without arousing any suspicion . |
| 12 | Maybe you only get one chance at a fish like that — a particular fish anyway — and I blew my chance through not planning what I was going to do after I had hooked him . |
| 13 | I was a little afraid , but this was something really important ; nobody could make me get married after I had discovered something as strange as this . |
| 14 | After I had styled my hair it felt very soft and silky and it also seemed much thicker and more glossy . |
| 15 | Think about the man who shot me after I had saved his little girl from the river . |
| 16 | After I had written my letter of acceptance to Bedford I began to look for digs nearer the university : I was determined to show some independence . |
| 17 | A fortnight or so after I had dictated it in October 1971 , I had a telephone call from Harold Wilson to know whether I had read Wigg 's memoirs , and was I aware of the very personal attacks on him and Marcia Williams ? |
| 18 | One night , after I had cooked her supper , I went upstairs and packed the few things I possessed in a cardboard box and came downstairs and announced I was leaving . |
| 19 | In the strictness of my own father 's wisdom , he instilled into me a deep respect for the opposite sex , so that there was no physical play or caress with any women until after I had married my wife . |
| 20 | It was one of the medical records clerks who first mentioned the sponsored walk to me when I had visited the hospital to give a lecture to some of the nursing staff shortly after I had started my maternity leave . |
| 21 | Finally , ten hours after I had started I arrived at Tocumen airfield , back in one of the least pleasant cities in the Western hemisphere . |
| 22 | I could , of course , provide the ‘ dead ’ cancer cells with stretcher bearers after I had slaughtered them . |
| 23 | Very soon after I had taken my seat a fairly small number of musicians on the stage , of chamber orchestra size , began their rehearsal . |
| 24 | Mr D. Davidson turned out to be Alec 's father and after I had identified myself as an old school-friend of Alec 's — I allowed myself a little poetic licence in this description — he confirmed that Alec still lived in Strondonald . |
| 25 | I met my teacher 's teacher once , fairly soon after I had finished my first instruments . |
| 26 | The aunts and cousins arrived for their annual break just after I had finished my finals . |
| 27 | After I had finished my meal and done the washing-up , I went to my room , checked the home-brew and got my air-rifle . |
| 28 | The lessons took place during the evening and then only after I had finished my regular school work for the day . |
| 29 | ‘ A few minutes after I had told him I was n't going on , a gang of his thugs suddenly appeared and pointed machine-guns at us and ordered us to get up on stage . |
| 30 | Just after I had passed my driving test I drove up a local hill on the way to my aunt 's house , coming to traffic at a standstill . |