Example sentences of "after i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 2 | I ( again inevitably ) decided to leave job-hunting until after I had actually left SIS . |
| 3 | Yet some twelve months after I had graduated , I was now having my first interview with my chief constable who had no idea what I had studied or what result I had achieved . |
| 4 | By a remarkable coincidence this book arrived on my desk for review a matter of weeks after I had first seen it and browsed through it in a bookshop in Kathmandu . |
| 5 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 6 | My involvement with the tunnel did not extend to the rail link which was decided after I had left the department . |
| 7 | Jordi was waiting for me outside after I had a bath and changed my clothes for dinner . |
| 8 | There was usually some man waiting on the other side of the hole , like some sea creature waiting to grab its prey , and after I had settled on the seat , there would be a significant pause . |
| 9 | After I had left her she had spilt her cup of tea all over the bedclothes , which had soon become not only wet but cold and wet . |
| 10 | The problem came to a crisis after I had been going to evening classes ( Workers ' Educational Association ) , the subject being psychology . |
| 11 | I rang the Big Man up the next day after I had talked to him and said : ‘ When 's the next meeting ? ’ . |
| 12 | About two months after I had returned home , a letter came from Angela Woodin at Bletchley ; she was someone I had wanted to see but had not had the opportunity : |
| 13 | It was one of the medical records clerks who first mentioned the sponsored walk to me when I had visited the hospital to give a lecture to some of the nursing staff shortly after I had started my maternity leave . |
| 14 | After I had read out the concentrated edition to my two guests , Moltke remarked : ‘ Now it has a different ring ; it sounded before like a parley ; now it is like a flourish in answer to a challenge . ’ |
| 15 | After I had fired the frame they would want to look through the camera and would actually retake it with his own finger , saying ‘ It looks better like this . ’ |
| 16 | It was only after I had mentioned Miss Kenton that I suddenly realized how entirely inappropriate it would be for me to continue . |
| 17 | In the strictness of my own father 's wisdom , he instilled into me a deep respect for the opposite sex , so that there was no physical play or caress with any women until after I had married my wife . |
| 18 | Mr D. Davidson turned out to be Alec 's father and after I had identified myself as an old school-friend of Alec 's — I allowed myself a little poetic licence in this description — he confirmed that Alec still lived in Strondonald . |
| 19 | It was after I had been deep in thought for a long time , stooped forward , that I looked up and saw Adrar , like the celestial city , its towers and palms floating on the mirage of a lake . |
| 20 | Soon after I had moved off , a massive column of dust appeared in the east , headed by a battered green lorry , the sort the Eighth Army might have lost . |
| 21 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 22 | Maybe you only get one chance at a fish like that — a particular fish anyway — and I blew my chance through not planning what I was going to do after I had hooked him . |
| 23 | The next morning , after I had drunk some coffee and sat for an hour with the first suggestions of boredom stirring inside me , the Feldwebel who had enjoyed the ride in the Mercedes so much came to the door . |
| 24 | After I had eaten my biscuit I climbed up onto my bunk with the chocolate and took off my boots . |
| 25 | Pip 's servant at Barnard 's Inn , whom he nicknames ‘ the Avenger ’ because ‘ after I had made the monster ( out of the refuse of my washerwoman 's family ) and had clothed him with a blue coat , canary waistcoat , white cravat , creamy breeches , and [ top boots ] , I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat ; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence ’ . |
| 26 | By their very quality and integrity they continued for several years after I had been graduated from the post of Talks Producer to higher echelons of musical and dramatic productions . |
| 27 | After I had produced talks and features for a year or so , Jack Radford asked me one day if I would like to take charge of a music show . |
| 28 | I could , of course , provide the ‘ dead ’ cancer cells with stretcher bearers after I had slaughtered them . |
| 29 | So I went round after I had finished . |
| 30 | 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 ! |