Example sentences of "after they [verb] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then you get into the situations apparently where erm people decide after they 've had sex |
| 2 | Er I saw how they used to do it in the after they 'd finished work , used to be at it till till nine or ten that night . |
| 3 | It was after they had cleared supper and were sitting by the range with a cup of tea that the first person to arrive knocked at the front door . |
| 4 | On May 28 , ten days after they had lost contact and close to complete despair Bonington gave up the search . |
| 5 | Well , the lids of these racks rattled like mad as they put the hay in to feed the sheep after they had given birth . |
| 6 | Beneath the heaven of feeling that he needed her were the remnants of pain caused by the memory of how he had looked at her the morning after they had made love . |
| 7 | After they had used swear words once in class , he argued , they would never use them again . |
| 8 | He could touch dead things , even dead slugs after they had had salt poured over them . |
| 9 | BRITISH troops shot dead three Croat gunmen after they had opened fire on a huge Muslim aid convoy near the town of Vitez in central Bosnia today . |
| 10 | After they had lowered Midnight on to a chair and propped his arms on the table in front , Hawkins stood back , but Jess stayed close . |
| 11 | This dry contempt strolls out even when its target is invisible : the narrator telephones the Fonsteins ' house years after they have lost contact and is answered by a young man , on whom he forms an immediate image — ‘ a thick head of hair , a beer paunch , a T-shirt with a logo or slogan . |
| 12 | It is after they have lost control for the second or third time that the real difficulties appear . |
| 13 | This is known as the punch drunk syndrome , where victims suffer slurred speech , poor balance and memory loss and dementia years after they have stopped boxing . |
| 14 | Apart from a general improvement in clinical services , further research is required to evaluate the effectiveness of different methods of managing patients after they have left hospital . |
| 15 | After 1861 ( or rather , after they started making redemption payments ) , " Peasants could and did accumulate huge arrears without any definitive confrontation with the authorities " . |