Example sentences of "after [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was held up and was forced to give the traditional welcome speech after everyone had eaten their lunches . ’ |
| 2 | This problem was one that was confronting the brothers as they sat one late night at Rafferty 's after everyone had gone . |
| 3 | There was plenty of broken glass and several glasses left on the window sills and the pavement , and of course , little piles of fag ends that barren , saving themselves journeys to the dustbins , had tipped out of the doors after everyone had gone . |
| 4 | Capitol police bolted and locked all the windows , in case a prowler was coming in after everyone had left : no luck . |
| 5 | I had to stop myself telling her that I had another party to go to on Christmas evening — just so I could stay home after everyone had left and stuff my face with leftovers . |
| 6 | The morale of the teachers is very low after everyone has tried so hard for the school . |
| 7 | ‘ The morale of the teachers is very low after everyone has tried so hard for the school . |
| 8 | We always had trouble like that It was horrible You 'd go into the changing rooms after someone had tried on some rubber tights and there 'd be cum all over them . |
| 9 | The flesh of his forehead looked like pastry after someone has drawn a fork across it . |
| 10 | Mum followed them and I too decided to find Frankie to tell him the news after I had cleared away the crocks . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Think about Felix and his family , who hated me after I had given them love . |
| 14 | I paid the fourpence for two coffees , and after I had seen Clare to her train back home , went to St Andrew 's to make a few notes of plans to defend myself , for I knew it would not be long before I faced a new ‘ trial ’ — by the hospital 's board of governors . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One day , a year or so after I had landed at Heathrow , I was playing football in the playground , chasing the ball over the yard in the way of primary school kids , when a teacher , Mr Wright came up to me . |
| 18 | Was he too old , I wondered , to console himself after I had gone , with the knowledge that without our penetration of Enigma , he might still have won the U-boat war ? |
| 19 | After I had gone home , Marie checked this by the somewhat crude device of blindfolding the chicks and putting a cotton bud dipped in methylanthranilate in their bills . |
| 20 | After I had arranged to meet Jack on the following Wednesday , the Masons left for home , and I had an early dinner with my parents . |
| 21 | It was a beautiful sunny morning , and at eleven o'clock , after I had done a quick surgery , we chugged quietly out of the harbour , with Lucy at the controls . |
| 22 | I did it , in fact , habitually , for forty-five minutes each day after I had done my homework . |
| 23 | 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 " . |
| 24 | On her last evening , after I had said goodbye to her , I happened to pass by a café in which she was sitting , pensively reading a newspaper . |
| 25 | After I had eaten my biscuit I climbed up onto my bunk with the chocolate and took off my boots . |
| 26 | 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 ? ’ |
| 27 | For several years that basic idea of using a flight simulator kept coming up in my mind and it was in 1974 , after I had attended the meeting of the Accident Investigation Division of ICAO in Montreal , that I was discussing this same problem with Bernard Caiger of the Canadian National Research Council . |
| 28 | After I had queued for forty-five minutes some returns returned and we were in . |
| 29 | I was armed with a microphone and sent onto the course after I had completed my round . |
| 30 | I could n't bring myself to believe it , and after I had visited Cooper in Maidstone Prison and McMahon in Long Lartin Prison and spoken to their two solicitors , Gareth Peirce for Cooper and Wendy Mantle for McMahon , as well as to Tom Sargant , the secretary of JUSTICE , who had also taken up the case , I was convinced that they were as innocent of the Luton murder as I was . |