Example sentences of "after he [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what happened to her body no longer interested her after he had rejected it . |
| 2 | That was one of the aspects of America he did n't like ; and Maria Filippa had agreed , it seemed to him , after he had made it clear . |
| 3 | ‘ Have you seen Grimes yet ? ’ he asked Minton , who went to great lengths to obtain seats for himself , Denis Wirth-Miller and Richard Chopping , even after he had seen it twice . |
| 4 | Certainly MacDonald 's international fame was greater than Baldwin 's , and there is some evidence that he maintained a certain touch for foreign affairs well after he had lost it domestically . |
| 5 | Perhaps also , a new officer might learn how little his place was actually worth after he had accepted it , although in this regard it must be remembered that even the crown offices were poorly paid . |
| 6 | It is here that William the Conqueror is said to have bribed two friars to help him gain access to the City of York after he had besieged it unsuccessfully . |
| 7 | They walked on , thinking of This and That , and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap , which is sixty-something trees in a circle ; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four , not even when he tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it . |
| 8 | ‘ The boy waited ages at the open front door after he had delivered it , ’ he said , ‘ but eventually he just rode away . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ KISS ’ IS the record that made Prince unnecessary ; it contains everything that is great about him and after he had released it , he could quite easily have gone to live on the Moon and he would not have been missed . |
| 10 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 11 | After he had read it aloud he crumpled the note up in his fist and thrust it into the fire as if the very sight of it was hateful . |
| 12 | He opened it with trepidation , bursting into relieved laughter after he had read it . |
| 13 | Oddly enough my father allowed Great-Aunt Jane and John Bell to live at Low Birk Hatt after he had bought it . |
| 14 | His daughter Diane Perry said she was rung by her husband from work after he 'd heard it on the radio . |
| 15 | A tottering old oily fellow kicked the cafe door open , after he 'd opened it with his scrawny hand ! |
| 16 | The first was some eight years ago when he 'd been accused of shoddy workmanship on a car which had been involved in a crash two days after he 'd MOTed it . |
| 17 | Now well I 'm sitting there , Robert 's my customer and like I 'm sitting there and he comes out with this fabulous spiel , right , as this objection , right , that was word perfect and he 's sitting there after he 's finished it as smug as anything and looking at me as if to say so what are you gon na do about that then ? |
| 18 | The student who finds difficulty in writing out his results may equally use audio-recording as a tool , perhaps later transcribing his account into written form after he has formulated it . |