Example sentences of "after [pers pn] [conj] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember dad running after me and having a long conversation trying to make me understand . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ At the moment she enjoys flying around the world after me and having a child would make that more difficult . |
| 3 | Unaware of the news which had spread swiftly throughout the city , Wilson returned to the Casa Guidi late in the evening , not really thinking to see Mrs Browning again but wishing to enquire after her and to take a knead cake she had made specially . |
| 4 | An old man shuttled after her and hooked a horticultural implement of a hand around her arm . |
| 5 | The woman looked after her and gave a little shrug . |
| 6 | He whistled after her and shouted a coarse word , whilst Beatrice looked down at him , unshaven and dishevelled , and asked who the big Sicilian was ( an insult , of course to an Italian ) . |
| 7 | The Triplane came after him and made a long , angled pass , but he was unaware of it . |
| 8 | Robyn stared after him and heaved a furious sigh . |
| 9 | In 1799 he invented an electrometer named after him and produced a simplified version of his plate electrical machine , which became the most popular type in England . |