Example sentences of "after having [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After having suffered from domestic fundamentalism and a devastating war , the Iranians showed impressive judgment by staying on the sidelines . |
| 2 | She shivered , her right hand moving restlessly towards the gold chain with its rectangular pendant which lay on the exposed skin of her neck above the scooped-out neckline of her dress : Rune 's parting gift given to her that dull morning when , after having insisted on collecting her from her hotel , he had driven her to the airport at Kastrup . |
| 3 | Even Johnny Carey , the club captain and reckoned to be the most versatile player of all time ( he had played in ten positions for United including goalkeeper ) , finished his working life modestly in the treasurer 's office of Trafford Borough Council after having gone the way of all managers in the grip of impatient and often ignorant directors . |
| 4 | He was not afraid to be seen deep in conversation with a Samaritan woman whom he knew was cohabiting with another man after having gone through five husbands . |
| 5 | But he said Pakistan had something of a history of men playing , after having said they were not fit . |
| 6 | However , after having reached a position out of range of detection by the Cherbourg defences , P/O Atherton and his crew must have decided to circle and wait until they felt that the defences would have assumed that the attack was over and would therefore have relaxed their alertness . |
| 7 | The father shot himself one afternoon after having shot his wife . |
| 8 | Consequently , at the end of 1992 , the Group 's net debt of £1,146 million [ including preference shares ] represented approximately 111 per cent of shareholders ' funds , after having received £732 million proceeds from the sale of assets . |
| 9 | In a large study of isonazid associated hepatitis , 54% of patients presented after having received the drug for more than two months and several received the drug for more than 12 months before presentation . |
| 10 | Only after having uttered the words , which she immediately regretted , did Lucy realise just how much the constant endearments had riled her . |
| 11 | He had fled Romania after having been accused of helping anti-government demonstrators in Bucharest and after having survived what he claimed were three assassination attempts . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) Companies are often at their most vulnerable after having completed some major restructuring which has caused profits to dip . |
| 13 | He disregarded the cigarette-packs , after having checked inside each one carefully to see if a note had been left . |
| 14 | Picasso himself , on the other hand , said that he became familiar with negro art only after having painted the Demoiselles , and that his introduction to it took place in the Trocadero . |
| 15 | After having lost over fourteen hours to the weather , the game was called off with the score at 227 for 6 declared , and a series that had promised so much with its exciting start fizzled out meaninglessly , with almost seven of the twenty-five playing days lost . |
| 16 | One who came out into the open after having lost his political way somewhat was former premier Bazargan . |
| 17 | Trace Computers Plc blames the fall in turnover for the six months to November 30 ( figures , see page five ) , on a planned reduction in the scale of its computer supplies business , where turnover fell by nearly £1m ; the company managed to shave £122,000 from its administrative and operating costs ; the original businesses of insurance broking systems , property management systems and bespoke software development have continued to prosper , the company says , and the Proteus distribution systems business , consolidated on its return to profits last year ; Trace Financial also made a small profit and there was interest in the BlueChip stockbroking product ; the group is still investing about £2m a year in research and development — with some contribution from its customers ; the Pink networking technology company had a disappointing half year , turning in a small loss after having made a profit last year . |
| 18 | When asked to make one of two equal piles of pennies tiv , after having made one pile more or less than the other , three-to five-year-olds will do one of several things . |
| 19 | Under emergency procedure I put in the words in the second line , after having made every reasonable effort to consult with the chief executive . |
| 20 | When , for example , Myra played disappointingly in the Scottish Girls ' after having made so big an impact at the Scottish Championship at Lossiemouth , he had to take her on one side and explain that she was far too exhausted , physically , to be able to give of her best : " I told her that she had to learn to pace herself and decide which tournaments she felt to be important . " |
| 21 | The Embassy 's letter , from Zvi Rav — Ner , information counsellor , stated that Mr Nathan was charged with breaking the law after having met Arafat on several occasions in 1990 and 1991 . |
| 22 | ‘ I say , ’ he said , after having created no response . |
| 23 | In addition to a single card , each group received a worksheet containing the following instructions : One of the advantages of cutting up the card was that each group , after having recorded its own reconstruction , was able to assemble the narratives proposed by the other groups . |
| 24 | Castro is reported to have said in private that ‘ we shall not make the same mistake twice ; we shall not break with the Russians after having broken with the Americans ’ ( Suárez : 1967 , p. 175 ) . |
| 25 | Subsequently , and very shortly after having written that letter , the father sought legal advice in Australia and then took the steps which eventually led to the issue of this originating summons . |
| 26 | In this latter circle , after having written two full-length studies on idealism , she was invited to deliver a paper on primary and secondary consciousness in 1923 . |
| 27 | The Russians and Ukrainians could n't have been more friendly or helpful , but after having treated the galleys , on a democratic vote , the entire branch defected to the Deep Pan Pizza restaurant for dinner . |
| 28 | After having witnessed what Soho had to offer I fancied some of the action for myself . |
| 29 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 30 | Slator [ 1989 ] also used the domain codes within the LDOCE for the same purpose , but only after having restructured the hierarchy of the coding system . |