Example sentences of "after he [verb] gone " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Platt is making a brave fist of replacing Alan McInally — his goal , brilliantly struck from an angle after he had gone round Peter Shilton , was his fifth this season — but he cut a solitary , composed figure in a side bereft of confidence and quality . |
| 2 | ‘ Poor Daddy , ’ Rose would smile with affection after he had gone again . |
| 3 | ‘ We do n't know any more than that , ’ Maggie protested to Rose after he had gone . |
| 4 | And the paragraph , composed after he had gone limp , would surely demonstrate to any reader that he , the writer , was temperamentally incapable of doing all the things he had so unwisely confessed to Robert . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was n't until after he had gone to bed that Willie asked about the room . |
| 7 | He had been tentatively invited to dinner at Hampstead once or twice , but Dinah had not taken to him , except to mock and imitate him after he had gone . |
| 8 | It was only after he had gone that they realized they had never asked his name or where he lived . |
| 9 | After he had gone , I packed my own cases , checked the drawers and cupboards of our room and called for a porter . |
| 10 | After he had gone I was standing in front of the fire , my back to it . |
| 11 | One Sunday morning after he had gone to his chapel and I to my church , he came back excitedly waving a newspaper and said ‘ Listen to this , ’ and he read the Dylan Thomas poem ‘ The force that through the green fuse drives the flower ’ . |
| 12 | After he had gone Tristram and Jennifer went down to the end of the orchard where they could be out of sight of the house . |
| 13 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 14 | I saw Hywel speak to her , and after a while , after he had gone , I heard her laugh . |
| 15 | After he had gone , Cassie went to the kitchen to run cold water over her arm and to bathe her cheek . |
| 16 | Marshall said , after he had gone , that he doubted Wainfleet could take a serious view of anything . |
| 17 | After he had gone , she prayed with us ‘ for the brave young men on both sides . ’ |
| 18 | After he had gone , she stared blankly at the stack of boxes he had left . |
| 19 | For some time after he had gone , Emmie stared with smarting eyes at the ceiling , humming casually under her breath . |
| 20 | But after he had gone Robbie did not immediately prepare herself for bed . |
| 21 | After he had gone , Robbie sat for ages on his bunk , her eyes fixed unseeingly . |
| 22 | After he had gone , I sat back at the pub table . |
| 23 | After he had gone I found that my nightie was covered in a horrible sticky mess with a strange sour smell . |
| 24 | After he had gone and after they had introduced themselves to each other , David Fairfax said reflectively , " I know that man . |
| 25 | After he had gone , she chatted with several of the other guests , learned more local history from Margrida , got pinned down again by the Dalgety executive . |
| 26 | After he had gone . |
| 27 | I regret that because there would have been the children after he 'd gone . ’ |
| 28 | After he 'd gone ! |
| 29 | After he 'd gone Dad said he would consider what Mr Vulcan had said but I knew already what I wanted and I knew Dad would n't object . |
| 30 | After he 'd gone out , she continued to stand as she had when he 'd kissed her — as she had when Zeno had kissed her . |