Example sentences of "take [adv prt] after the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them said : ‘ When the Communists took over after the war , some of the Fascists became the best Stalinists of all . |
| 2 | Hooves sounded loud in the yard as Colonel Winckler took off after the Prince . |
| 3 | According to Hyde , the ‘ purge ’ only really took off after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 when the two diplomats fled to the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | Whitlock mounted one of the police motorcycles , kick-started it , then slewed it violently in an ungainly one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and took off after the getaway car . |
| 5 | He spoke of the research evidence of the few people who are gi who are given money for care , taken up after the settlement of their cases and added his own experience . |