Example sentences of "after he [verb] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | That date was ‘ discovered ’ by early Roman historians , men who also incorporated the well-known Greek legend that the city was founded by Aeneas after he had escaped from Troy . |
| 2 | There is a story in the Acts of the Apostles which describes how Peter , after he had escaped from prison , went to the house of Mary , the mother of John Mark ( Acts 12:12 ) . |
| 3 | Having spent himself , he had still found the will and strength to move away after he had withdrawn from her , so that they lay without touching , the space between them painfully eloquent , the gleaming coppery curve of the shoulder that he presented to her even more hurtful . |
| 4 | One day , soon after he had retired from his legal practice , Hilbert told Lewis he had made a will that was ‘ very much to your advantage ’ . |
| 5 | They included Henri de Lubac , later to be raised to the rank of cardinal , though only after he had retreated from the more extreme position on the relationship between nature and grace he had adopted in 1946 in his book Surnaturel ; Marie-Dominique Chenu , one of whose books was placed on the Index in 1942 for daring to suggest that Thomas Aquinas ought to be studied against the history of his times ; and Yves Congar , who survived to become one of the leading theologians of Vatican II . |
| 6 | In the 64th minute Gascoigne performed a similar duty for England but , after he had crossed from the right-hand byline , Newell rose to head past Lekovic , the substitute goalkeeper . |
| 7 | It was patently clear to all that Samuel Pipkin could have poisoned the water after he had drunk from it , if indeed he had drunk from it at all . |
| 8 | After he had separated from her mother and when she was away at boarding-school , he would drive down to visit her , often accompanied by some rather mature page-boy in jeans or a mini-skirt and Molly would sit with them in silence at an endless tea in the local Trusthouse Forte . |
| 9 | A smile came to his lips as he thought of the thing he had bought Fei Yen that very evening , after he had come from the boy . |
| 10 | Enough to say that , after he had recovered from the operation and came home , Nigel and I had forty-eight days together in which he was serene , happy and free from pain , which I regard as beyond price . |