Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy threw the sticky grain up into the air and the pigeons swooped down after it . |
| 2 | Tabitha swooped along after the bird , over rubble , through coulisses , under gantries of black bone where vast unknown machinery slept , covered in fawn dust . |
| 3 | The Doctor gathered up his hat and umbrella and hopped down after them . |
| 4 | He went on ahead while Willie staggered on after him . |
| 5 | They moved on after that , with Jessica dropping in bits about Parr as they occurred to her — although not that she was due to meet him the next day . |
| 6 | The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox . |
| 7 | Each of the three levels of WOW ! has special revision sections built in after every second unit . |
| 8 | France was devastated and er they had always had a lace trade but we found in after years , this is a point that should n't be missed , that destruction by the Germans and the replacing under reparations , I understood the money came from , anyway the firm worked day and night for years , er left Nottingham the lace centre with the old pre-war machines and France and areas , including Italy , er with the modern machines . |
| 9 | For some reason she remembered how awful it was when she first moved in after their marriage . |
| 10 | Wilkinson headed over after two minutes and at the other end Stephen Pears punched out a Neil Webb free-kick for Denis Irwin to volley wide . |
| 11 | The police charged off after the fictitious yobs and we rushed in the opposite direction back to the track ! |
| 12 | There were several injuries and all healed up after a while . |
| 13 | Tobacco and insurance giant BAT Industries moved up after signing a joint venture agreement to take over a cigarette manufacturing business in the Ukraine . |
| 14 | Dorcas shouted up after them . |
| 15 | It is important that the rags or paper kitchen towel are not left crumpled up after use , as they can catch fire , due to spontaneous combustion . |
| 16 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 17 | Wheat futures in Chicago dropped to 13-year lows in November when grain sales to the Soviet Union petered out after that country ran out of cash . |
| 18 | The Rice/Lloyd Webber partnership petered out after Evita in 1976 , and in 1978 Lloyd Webber founded the Really Useful Company to manage his shows . |
| 19 | His 62-year-old converted trawler conked out after leaving Newfoundland on the return leg . |
| 20 | Moreover , in the interests of trade regulation , thrashed out after many years of conflict between coalowners , merchants , shipowners and government , colliers were loaded in sequence and sailed in convoy , giving even better opportunities than elsewhere for seamen , keel men and others to pressurize their employers by delay . |
| 21 | The grypesh swam out after them , and there were battles fought there in a welter of blood and foam . |
| 22 | However , despite the setbacks , the game bounced back after the Second World War and , in a similar way to the developments in France and Romania at the turn of the century , it made inroads into Soviet universities . |
| 23 | GREAT Britain international Paul Cuskin bounced back after injury to win yesterday 's Washington six-mile road race . |
| 24 | There were a few stunners , true , but they always moved out after their first year whilst the ungainly ones became permanent fixtures . |
| 25 | And when I found out after a bit of dressing-room chat what the other lads were on I had to make a point . |
| 26 | And I went in there , and asked for their tailoring department and er er I found out after that I was just dead lucky , one of their trouser finishers was going to er leave , she was getting married , and she was leaving and erm although you did n't have to leave then , she she she sort of had got to leave , so er I just fell lucky , there . |
| 27 | Melinda waded out after me and we climbed up one of the mooring ropes on to the deck . |
| 28 | I wandered around after my swim but did n't see any staff . |
| 29 | Woking keeper Laurence Batty played on after a clash of heads with striker Kurt Nogan , but was sent for hospital tests after the game . |
| 30 | Steam lorries lingered on after the Second World War , largely because of the shortage of oil . |