Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] after [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked after a long pause . |
| 2 | I wanted to become a reporter because I lusted after a belted trenchcoat like the one Joel McCrea wore in Hitchcock 's Foreign Correspondent . |
| 3 | I mean after the armed police officers but before you ? |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I suspect after the Prime Minister 's speech last night , it 's no longer political correct to talk about single parents . |
| 7 | Or how can I look after the poor things ? |
| 8 | I returned after a ten minute wait and the clouds rolled away to waken the scene from its gloomy darkness . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I thought after a few times she 'll stop and she 'll accept it . |
| 13 | I drifted after the three of them to watch the runners come out for the third race and was n't far behind them when they walked right down to the rails to see the contest from the closest possible quarters . |
| 14 | But not so much I think er with a lot of henhouses and that they were better battened down I think after the first year . |
| 15 | I think so , you know , and the lads have just said that , and then we went I think after the first goal , twenty odd minutes , it looked as though three one it was going to end up did n't it . |
| 16 | One example my coal hole accommodated for nigh on ten years was a case of Krug I bought after a successful poker evening . |
| 17 | And I learned after a few weeks that how he got this was There was no weather forecast as we know them now you know on the television . |
| 18 | I heard them no sooner I turned to walk away which I did after a brief moment 's hesitation when I wrestled with the foolish notion of somehow eliciting a confession out of the florid man that he was lying and that Leicester Square did indeed exist ; not realizing then that he was right , and that there really was no such place as Lei-cester Square . |
| 19 | Certainly if players such as Edberg , involved in the final stages of the Australian Open , felt even remotely like I did after the 31 hours it took me to arrive home from Melbourne before leaving on another seven hour journey to Bayonne less than 24 hours later , then it is no wonder that many of them are unable to do justice either to themselves or their countries in Davis Cup competition , as things stand . |
| 20 | ‘ A good few thousand , ’ I said after a brief pause for calculation . |
| 21 | ‘ I said after the European Championships I would be looking for a much more settled squad , ’ said Taylor . |
| 22 | I joined in , and I ran after a little white girl and grabbed her . |
| 23 | She certainly lived up to her name , and was the inspiration for the poem " Revenue Cutter " which I wrote after a particular stormy passage in the North of Scotland . |
| 24 | With a feeling of doom I hurried after the squat figure back into the yard where another lad stood by the side of a beautiful chestnut filly . |
| 25 | The Cavaliers occupied Burghley House , but they were heavily outnumbered , and Cromwell forced them to surrender after a bitter siege . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh dear ’ , said Theodora , as she gazed after the familiar vehicle . |
| 27 | We were going to run that tape you made after the planning-committee meeting , but in the light of recent events it seems unwise . |
| 28 | With one assistant , she looks after the legal work for the whole of the company , undertakes the company secretarial work and attends Board meetings . |
| 29 | ‘ It will take a bit of getting used to , ’ she remarked slowly , ‘ although , ’ she added after a slight pause , ‘ it does make you look — ’ |
| 30 | What else would you expect after the rotten day I 'd had ? |