Example sentences of "[prep] her [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seems over-concerned about what people think of them , to lust after her but not deeply love her . |
| 2 | Shots rang out after her but they missed . |
| 3 | I called after her that Jean-Claude was not at home but that I would find him . |
| 4 | Coldly , calmly , she walked towards her room and walked in , so carefully shutting the door after her that it was more of a controlled insult than any violent bang to the two men still watching . |
| 5 | Kim Basinger is refusing to open an Argentinian disco named after her unless blondes are banned from standing near her in a photo session . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah , yes , of course , the live-in nanny to look after her while you 're out enjoying the high life . ’ |
| 7 | The couple would like to care for Leah at home fulltime , but have been told they would be unlikely to receive funding for a night nurse to look after her while they slept . |
| 8 | He had looked after her since she had come here . |
| 9 | I know not to expect her to react in the way other dogs do , and she knows that I will look after her and she does n't have to be quite so independent . |
| 10 | By now he was used to spending longer and longer periods alone , yet in that moment when she walked away he always experienced a brief sense of loss that made him want to rush after her and beg her not to go . |
| 11 | I had to restrain myself from running after her and asking who she was — heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire perhaps ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | I 've just got to look after her and see that she does n't hurt herself . ’ |
| 15 | Harriet waited until the door had closed after her and flicked the button , feeling oddly apprehensive . |
| 16 | Ignoring the girls who were primping in front of the mirror she ran to the cubicles and dived inside one , slamming the door after her and leaning against it . |
| 17 | We agreed as they were in London during the week ; we looked after her and paid all the bills . |
| 18 | Why had n't Shamrock 's owners looked after her and loved her as we had done ? |
| 19 | One of the men shouted after her and she broke into an awkward trot . |
| 20 | Matilda went after her and found herself in what seemed to be a dark narrow tunnel . |
| 21 | When Aggie swung round with a lightness that always denied her heavy bulk and made hastily for the door , Millie flew after her and , jumping in front of her , threw her arms around her waist as far as they would go , crying , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 22 | The loan exhibition of eighteenth-century European ceramics from the Bowes Museum will allow many who have not already made the trek to Barnard Castle a fascinating glimpse of this major collection of Continental ceramics assembled by Josephine Bowes , beginning in 1860 , with the idea in mind of creating a public collection ( opened 1892 , unfortunately after her and her husband 's death ) . |
| 23 | He worried about her all the time , he was even jealous of Hepzibah because she was looking after her and he was n't ! |
| 24 | She had resigned from her ambulance unit because her own mother was ill and had rented a house outside Glasgow so that she could look after her and still be near the port when their father 's ship came in . |
| 25 | Mr. Joseph Bonanza , that respected community figure , might be going to look after her and he might not . |
| 26 | Well I sa , I mean I took her on to look after her and I did n't think there would any problem |
| 27 | The woman looked after her and gave a little shrug . |
| 28 | After her divorce her mother suffered a virtual nervous breakdown and had to look after her and her sisters for a while . |
| 29 | He did before he went away , asked her if we 'd look after her and we had her until she was seven years old . |
| 30 | She could not speak , indeed , it was said she had not spoken for decades , though once she had been a singer and made up songs that others learned after her and still sang . |