Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] come after " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned and came after me waving his revolver , but I easily lost him in the crowd . |
| 2 | The racking sobs did n't last long ; she was too afraid that fitzAlan would recover and come after her . |
| 3 | They called to him twice before he heard , and then he started and came after them at a rapid walk , like a man driven by some urgent pain he could not slough off . |
| 4 | In both cases however the infinitive evokes a result — something therefore which is conceived as coming after the actual operation of perception . |
| 5 | To is used when the infinitive event is conceived as coming after that of the other verb . |
| 6 | To take sentence ( 1 ) above as an example , if one follows the hypothesis developed here , to signifies that the infinitive event is conceived as coming after something else . |