Example sentences of "he [verb] after [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quick thinking on the part of the father will soon have him sprinting after the runaway , and similarly quick thinking on the part of the camera operator will result in a cut from the distant child to one of the rescuer as he sets off . |
| 2 | Making Iris voice carefully casual , he asked : ‘ Does n't he ever ask where you 're going when you sneak out on Sunday afternoons leaving him to look after the child ? ’ |
| 3 | It surprised Dougal that Lorton wanted him to look after the coins . |
| 4 | She would complete the packing , telephone her office to say she was on her way , ring Cobalt and ask him to look after the murder case and the inquiry into the provenance of the Durances . |
| 5 | She trusted him to look after the Post 's interests before he sold the story to any other outlets , but she did not know whether she could trust him with the story . |
| 6 | The Leeds manager , I understand , was only too happy to let him go after a month of turmoil at Elland Road which culminated in a walk-out last weekend by the flamboyant Frenchman when left out of the Arsenal game . |
| 7 | The German escapement action Stein employed in all the pianos that he made after the piano in the vis-á-vis instrument can be seen as a transformation of the Cristofori-Silbermann piano action . |
| 8 | In a broadcast he made after the war , he described the journal as one " which had clearly failed of its purpose several years before events brought it to an end " . |
| 9 | His love of Britain and wholehearted support for the fight against Fascism gave his films an urgency and richness which were lacking in the few he made after the war . |
| 10 | When A had lived x years he became the father of B. He lived after the birth of B y years and had other sons and daughters . |
| 11 | Jackie 's brother Jimmy , was the first to take up racing but he quit after an accident . |
| 12 | Townsend oozed confidence from his first kick to touch , and he agreed after the match that being part of the Scottish squad had done much to sharpen his game . |
| 13 | Or perhaps that 's why he goes after the women . |
| 14 | ‘ Oi were a bit rahsh there , ’ he announced after a minute . |
| 15 | ‘ Can you tell me where to take a left ? ’ he asked after a while . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've not been here long , have you ? ’ he asked after a while . |
| 17 | ‘ Are you OK now ? ’ he asked after a while , and she nodded . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , master ? ’ he asked after a moment . |
| 19 | ‘ What 's it like ? ’ he asked after a moment . |
| 20 | He asked after the Queen and the prince replied : ‘ She is in very good spirits . |
| 21 | He looks after the preparation of the balance sheet and deals with the tax inspector . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Amanda Hornby has gardened here for 20 years and her husband ; he looks after the lawns . |
| 24 | They were on the dashboard of his getaway van , which he crashed after the £2,000 raid in Leigh-on-Sea , Essex . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , ’ he adds after a moment , ‘ maybe I deserve it . ’ |
| 26 | He finishes after a bit and then jumps up on the window ledge . |
| 27 | Why should we allow your destructive race to flourish ? ’ he shouted after the Doctor . |
| 28 | ‘ Still sulking ? ’ he needled after a while |
| 29 | ‘ I wo n't go , ’ he says after a minute . |
| 30 | Yes — ‘ I was just thinking … ’ he says after a while , then stops again , because he 's still thinking . |