Example sentences of "after he 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After he 'd coated the segments in salt and chilli he passed them round , and everyone smacked their lips and screwed up their faces in pained delight . |
| 2 | But this was said after he 'd hung up the phone . |
| 3 | After he 'd hung up , I phoned an OADF(F) — old and distinguished friend ( female ) — called Fly . |
| 4 | Moore 's start in athletics came relatively late when he was 14 : ‘ One of the PE teachers at school had a son at Birchfield and , after he 'd seen me jumping well at school , he said , ‘ Why do n't you come down ? ’ |
| 5 | They wanted to surprise him by jumping out and saying ‘ Happy birthday ! ’ after he 'd seen the presents . |
| 6 | times for auctioning though was er when shops went bankrupt , er especially chocolate shops , cos then we had a good time after he 'd done because we usually got loads of chocolate which was a luxury . . |
| 7 | I 'd once had to miss a rendezvous with him after he 'd done his own stripping vicar act for some giggling secretary 's twenty-first birthday and he 'd shot out of the pub stark bollock naked to find me somewhere else . |
| 8 | His mother Edith was the first to see him after he 'd staggered home . |
| 9 | Police charged Lashley after he 'd confessed to fellow inmates in prison while he was serving 18 years for rape . |
| 10 | After he 'd played a couple of tunes , the organ grinder took off his old frayed cap and handed it round the crowd that had gathered . |
| 11 | And it was just after he 'd flicked through one of them that Detective Constable Hodges ( blast his eyes ! ) had come in , walked over to the newspaper stall , and picked up the top copy but one from the Daily Mirror pile . |
| 12 | And then she checked Well anyway the week after he 'd phoned there was no what you call in it so he wrote it in to the damn thing and said why is it when some people puts adverts in they not only put it in once they put it in three or four times the same week |
| 13 | It was somewhat surprising , then , that McIlvanney felt uneasy being approached for this profile , apparently for fear that he might be invited to ‘ pontificate , when I really do n't think I have that much to say ’ , It sounded like false modesty , but after he 'd relented , I remembered the long-standing ‘ pin-down ’ policy employed to prevent hubris in sports writers . |
| 14 | Two weeks after he 'd said |
| 15 | ‘ After he 'd given you how much ? ’ asked Joe . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've had a devil of a job tracking you down , ’ he said after he 'd given her a big hug . |
| 17 | But it was after he 'd given her the ring that the cracks had begun to appear in her façade . |
| 18 | Look at Elvis , he had everything that a man could desire , looks , talent , wealth — but after he 'd eaten all the cheeseburgers he could swallow , when he got bored chasing young girls in white panties , how did he spend his time ? |
| 19 | in his arms and treat and Mr Bumble rushed into the room with great excitement and addressed the gentleman in the high chair said I beg your pardon sir , Oliver Twist has asked for more , there was a for more said compose yourself Bumble and do I understand that he asked for more after he 'd eaten supper he did sir replied Bumble , that boy would be hung I know that boy will be hung |
| 20 | He 's not sure of the time but he says it was after he 'd eaten his sandwich , say six in the evening . |
| 21 | I regret that because there would have been the children after he 'd gone . ’ |
| 22 | After he 'd gone ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | he was gon na keep the quality leg after he 'd gone . |
| 26 | And after he 'd gone , and Isobel had returned to the newsroom to file all the dead stories and check the agency printers for the next hour 's updates ready to hand over to Jim , the late-shift newsreader , it briefly crossed her mind that maybe , just maybe , a rising star of journalism with her eye on the national media might have asked a couple of more searching questions . |
| 27 | After he 'd gone , Cleo giggled to herself , and examined the room . |
| 28 | ‘ After he 'd gone , did you hear anything ? ’ |
| 29 | She kept telling her father that there was no future for an independent shipping company , there 'd be no one to run it after he 'd gone , and that the modern thing was to bring the company into a big group . |
| 30 | His mother would come down after he 'd gone and go " Tsk , tsk " , and smile indulgently at his messy habits . |