Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] after [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked after a pause . |
| 2 | I asked after a long pause . |
| 3 | I asked after a silence . |
| 4 | I asked after a moment . |
| 5 | As I gazed after the jeep , I thought ‘ Those two , I suppose , are lucky in a way , they are alive and have a Blighty ! |
| 6 | I wanted to become a reporter because I lusted after a belted trenchcoat like the one Joel McCrea wore in Hitchcock 's Foreign Correspondent . |
| 7 | You know I mean after the after the the liberals had er lost the m main support er and the Labour Party came into prominence nobody w w you know you it 'd be almost impossible to put up in and . |
| 8 | Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over |
| 9 | I mean after the armed police officers but before you ? |
| 10 | I stopped after a short while and said ‘ this is nonsense — I ca n't learn any more of this sort of thing by two o'clock — I must just do a prose right through and see how I get on ’ . |
| 11 | I , you know I do n't mind , I enjoy handicraft but I find I 'm out Monday playing darts , I 'm out Tuesday doing handicraft and I look after a little boy who 's got Cerebral Palsy four mornings a week and comes three in the afternoon and it 's quite a lot . |
| 12 | I arrived after the kick-off , and gave away a crucial penalty with a hand ball which allowed the other team to draw 1-1 . |
| 13 | If I run after the goals which I see everyone around me running after , I reduce them to no more than means to the well-being of feeling at one with the many . |
| 14 | I suspect after the Prime Minister 's speech last night , it 's no longer political correct to talk about single parents . |
| 15 | I turned after a while and they were still wistfully standing there . |
| 16 | Or how can I look after the poor things ? |
| 17 | I remember after the war in Bayreuth spending many hours with an old bass player who had worked under him . |
| 18 | Now another er I remember after the war , er 's explosives took over the works in in . |
| 19 | I remember after the show you spoke for twelve minutes without a note and not only that but you came round afterwards and spent eight or ten minutes with us , the artists , which absolutely made our evening . |
| 20 | I remember after an exam in school , the geometry exam , the master picked up my paper and he said , ‘ We 've one boy here who scored a record for the school , no marks at all , nothing , no marks , not even one for neatness . ’ |
| 21 | I returned after a ten minute wait and the clouds rolled away to waken the scene from its gloomy darkness . |
| 22 | The manager of the Hotel España was very kind and thoughtful : he would have to let my apartment while I was away , should anyone want it , but promised to let me have it back when I returned after the funeral . |
| 23 | I heard after the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair had closed , that it was one of the most successful ever held , with attendance up every day , and a very high rate of sales . |
| 24 | Vanessa and I decided after a delicious cream tea to burn up some energy walking to Golden Cap , which at 618ft is the highest cliff in Southern England . |
| 25 | Bloody hurt it bruises , you sit on it and it does n't , I thought I might , I suppose after a while you 'll get blisters but it 's bruised , when you sit on the bloody thing . |
| 26 | I played the drums when I had to , I played the bass when I had to , and I felt after a while I could kinda have it as my own . |
| 27 | I decided I 'd have to tell you how I felt after the wedding when I thought you might be feeling more moved to accept advances from a Bluebeard . |
| 28 | I ask after a bit . |
| 29 | For six months I looked after a valiant clerical worker with cancer of the colon , which had spread to her liver before her condition was diagnosed . |
| 30 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |