Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] after [art] " in BNC.

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1 She looks after the dogs at the moment to keep herself busy .
2 With one assistant , she looks after the legal work for the whole of the company , undertakes the company secretarial work and attends Board meetings .
3 Then , years later — and she takes after the tall side of the family — she said , ‘ Now I am creature great , and you are creature small . ’
4 She might drown on one of those night swims she takes after the headlines on the nine o'clock news , regular as clockwork , right up to December . ’
5 ‘ Where are your shoes ? ’ she whispers after a while .
6 Hughes took the British junior team to Austria earlier this year , and the BJA has agreed to employ her as a part-time coach when she retires after the Commonwealth Games .
7 The atmosphere has to find it somewhere so it goes after the molecules locked in the glazes and that 's when the real magic happens . ’
8 Or perhaps that 's why he goes after the women .
9 He looks after the preparation of the balance sheet and deals with the tax inspector . ’
10 Amanda Hornby has gardened here for 20 years and her husband ; he looks after the lawns .
11 He looks after the mentally retarded man , Lennie , and their relationship is a strange one .
12 Cos he looks after the s the skips
13 Well if he keeps , if he looks after the car and keeps himself right och it 'll be okay but if he 's gon na mess about and wreck the car well he 's he 's no way of getting to work .
14 Propagation is done by dividing the sprouting rhizomes , which it develops after the first year , or by seed .
15 First , it looks after the security of America 's signals traffic by developing new cryptographs and operating procedures .
16 Barclays says it looks after the financial affairs of some 150 ‘ high technology ’ companies in Cambridge : three years ago the figure was 15 .
17 MMT has two main lines of business : developing , implementing and supporting custom applications ; and software facilities management , where it looks after the day-to-day operation of a customer 's software .
18 ‘ Well , ’ he adds after a moment , ‘ maybe I deserve it . ’
19 He finishes after a bit and then jumps up on the window ledge .
20 ‘ I wo n't go , ’ he says after a minute .
21 Yes — ‘ I was just thinking … ’ he says after a while , then stops again , because he 's still thinking .
22 If it occurs after the time of supply then he will have a defence , although the retailer will be liable for breach of the implied terms under ss13-14 of SGA 1979 and analagous provisions in contracts of supply .
23 Also , as he discovers after a little experiment , the windows of the shops here are constructed so that you do n't have to keep looking sideways to see yourself in them .
24 ‘ I like the challenge , though , ’ he grins after a perfectly-timed pause .
25 ‘ What is remarkable about it is that in its own way and by its own route it struggles after the same message as Christ . ’
26 Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike .
27 And so what it does after the first ten minutes , it says , look I 've had enough of this , what 's the grey haired old bugger on about now , oh ,
28 Oh poor old Rocket , he , he runs after the ball , then runs past it and leaves it
29 Linker good ! ’ he chuckles after the routine mentions of Albertosi and Domengini and introducing the life-size statue of Riva ( 43 caps , 35 goals , ) which he keeps behind the cake counter .
30 I have treated the problem twice with MarinOomed , but it returns after a couple of days .
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