Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] after the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've sent my sister in to look after the other lads . ’ |
| 2 | off to look after the |
| 3 | What did you go on to do after the business folded ? |
| 4 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |
| 5 | Phillipson has pointed to more direct state management of retirement , in order to regulate the size of the labour force , yet the well-known attempts by the government to induce retirees back to work after the Second World War were notable for their lack of success ; the reserve army of elderly labour was highly resistant to re-enlistment . |
| 6 | ‘ Robert did n't say I must go back to work after the baby ’ , Lucy told me , ‘ but he began to be reluctant about switching on electric fires and looking disapproving if I did ’ . |
| 7 | One woman described how she had gone back to work after the death of her husband , determined to be brave . |
| 8 | She asked the question half fearfully , almost afraid at what she might be about to hear after the event of the previous day . |