Example sentences of "be after " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just the words they 're after you see . |
| 2 | ‘ The vote I 'm after is the Christian patriot ’ , he avowed . |
| 3 | ‘ All I 'm after is getting you to stand up straight so that you can look people in the eye without feeling you need to pinch their wallets . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ With respect , what I 'm after is a result . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ What I 'm after is a little donation . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm delighted with the place , because what I 'm after , I suppose , is human variety , and America 's pretty pluralism , and there 's even more of that here . |
| 7 | And you 're quite sure that while the car was down in Streatley , the thieves who I 'm after would n't have had a chance to take it and use it for their break-in ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It 's just local colour I 'm after , ’ I said . |
| 9 | A brief structural guide is all I 'm after … and then my tutor wo n't kill me and give me bad references for being a lazy git ( which I admittedly am ) ( This was supposed to be in last july ! ! ! ) |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll warn you now , the wandering hands will be after you . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's probably just me — you 'll be alright ( you 'd better not be after I 've put up such a struggle ) . |
| 12 | The Act of 1967 does not specify at what stage , or how often or in what form the consultation is to take place , but the subsection implies that it should be after the Secretary of State has received the recommendation of the Parole Board . |
| 13 | They 'll be after you , wo n't they ? |
| 14 | " Nurse 'll be after you , " said the knitter . |
| 15 | What could he be after , where could he fit in , if this was true ? |
| 16 | It 'll only be after I 've m met a few people and photographed them well , that maybe my name will be start to be mentioned around That is another reason for courting the Trade 's Council and any other councillors that come in . |
| 17 | The uprising had no leader at its helm with a master plan for how life was going to be after the revolution was over . |
| 18 | Well it could be after we 've walked him in the morning . |
| 19 | Oh it 'll be after the meal 's over tonight when we |
| 20 | Looking back on their ten years of marriage , Davina and Alastair feel they stopped being in touch with what their needs were after their children were born . |
| 21 | Erm and I could see what they were after you know , an engineer has in his mind the plan and how to go about the thing and , and get it all done in a one-off situation . |
| 22 | Yeah it were after I 'd had summat to eat . |
| 23 | It came into being after a lama saw a fight between a white crane and an ape . |
| 24 | Fortunately we know who they are after they land and next time ( You mean you do n't kick 27 Dulux shades of shite with a hint of peach out of them while they 're on the floor ? |
| 25 | Having Goldberg in the room with it , as he has been in my life since that first day at college , made me grasp clearly , for the first time , just what it is I have been after , he wrote . |
| 26 | To his amazement , the very results that he had been after for several years were achieved . |
| 27 | She learned with sadness in her heart that their recent one night of love had been after he had met a young Vietnamese man . |
| 28 | It was strange , she thought , that her physical response to shock should be the same now as it had been after Hugo was killed , so that to her present grief was added a grief for him as keen , as new as when she had first heard that he was dead . |
| 29 | It must have been after I moved . ’ |
| 30 | I 've been after it for years . ’ |