Example sentences of "long after [pron] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like an omen , and she was n't at all surprised that , not long after they had resumed after their meagre lunch , the first raindrops fell . |
| 2 | Even then , habit and a stubborn trust that our audience spied upon us from behind then nearest bush , forced our bodies to blunder on long after they had emptied of meaning , until like runaway carts they dragged to a halt . |
| 3 | Consequently , norm development occurs over very long periods , and often very old behaviour patterns are preserved long after they have ceased to be relevant . |
| 4 | Woodhouse retained a sense of himself as a shoemaker long after he had gone into the book trade : the title of his most important work ‘ The Life and Lucubrations of Crispinus Scriblerus ’ ( c. 1795 ) is an allusion to one of the patron saints of cobblers . |
| 5 | For the rest of that evening and long after she had gone to bed , Jess was torn by worry , annoyance and something she could n't define . |
| 6 | And McAllister remembered his silent distress when he had come home after losing a woman in childbirth not long after she had arrived in Vetch Street . |
| 7 | Long after she had climbed into bed she continued to be haunted by the oddly regretful image of herself and Alexander strolling together , arm in arm , along the moonlit shore . |
| 8 | He had taken the name of Varna from the name of the port from which he had sailed but he had lived his life in terror of deportation , a fear that had haunted him long after it had ceased to be a real threat , so that he had never been able to enjoy his son 's success , seeing it only as something which drew unwelcome attention to the Varna family . |
| 9 | If you are going to be lightly humorous , skimming like a butterfly , then you will be ill served by a plot that is impossibly ingenious or a plot that has at its centre something too grave to be dealt with light-heartedly when , long after you have embarked on the actual writing , the moment comes to reveal all . |