Example sentences of "were [v-ing] after [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The troops reluctantly went to their beds , among them a number who had never been to Pathfinders before , and others who were returning after a time away . |
| 2 | They all worked at the BUPA South Bank Hospital in Worcester , and were returning after a day 's training at a hospital in Cardiff when the crash happened . |
| 3 | Two striking bodies were swimming after the big man , lifting themselves rhythmically out of the water with the butterfly stroke . |
| 4 | If you er using a similar example , if , if you were looking after the neighbour 's house while they 're away on holiday and found that they 'd been broken into , then that would n't necessarily be a nine nine nine call , unless you thought there was somebody in the house . |
| 5 | Rosa and Dolores were looking after the child in Palma and I knew they were due to return . |
| 6 | Though many were crumbling after the Second World War many owners are now putting them in good order . ’ |
| 7 | It was nearly dark when we left Fontanellato and , with no lights about , it was hard to know where we were going after a few kilometres . |
| 8 | My suggestion to Angus , while we were dishwashing after the battle , that maybe his food could have been injected somehow with a substance that even now could be working away to the detriment of everyone 's health was received by him with frosty amusement . |
| 9 | But UNHCR officials in Sarajevo denied a statement by Ms Foa that people were running after the agency 's trucks in the city and begging . |
| 10 | A series of falls hidden from immediate view follows the gill on the left-hand side and one May morning as I walked up the gill the falls were roaring after the heavy rains of the week before . |
| 11 | So that , when she went to the headmistress with what I was supposed to have done to her as we were changing after a singles tennis game , of course everyone believed her . |
| 12 | Moreover , they were playing after a 16-hour train journey . |
| 13 | In my class four pupils were missing after the holidays . |
| 14 | COUNCIL workmen found a booby-trapped caravan yesterday on a site they were clearing after a court battle . |