Example sentences of "[is] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He did n't exactly buy anything , but he 's after a refrigerator . ’ |
| 2 | AFIRM of auctioneers which sold two oil paintings for £840 five months before the works fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's after being attributed to the 18th century master , George Stubbs , won its appeal yesterday against a judge 's ruling that it had been negligent . |
| 3 | It 's after the lambs . ’ |
| 4 | She 's after the export business . |
| 5 | Really she 's after him for his money . ’ |
| 6 | He 's after my guts anyway . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's after them blasted bantams again , ’ Jos said , watching him go . |
| 8 | ‘ If you ever ring me and you 're out on your own and it 's after ten o'clock , I 'm not coming to pick you up ’ — that 's what he told me . |
| 9 | The Major later claimed that his takings on Watson 's tour exceeded that from H. J. Stanley 's after his famous meeting with Dr Livingstone . |
| 10 | Jonathan Carroll 's After Silence ( Macdonald , £14.99 ) comes complete with a curious endorsement from Stephen King : ‘ I would say that only five writers have written serious novels which incorporated scenes of fantasy or the inexplicable and still qualify as literature , ’ writes the doyen of domestic horror , prompting the thought that it all depends what you mean by literature . |
| 11 | I am willing to fail any dope test be it verbal , non-verbal , as long as it 's after this year 's London Marathon . |
| 12 | She 's after our Robbie . ’ |
| 13 | They 'd all come straight to Ingham 's after the Requiem Mass and they were waiting now for John Burns , the undertaker , to come and tell them when the grave was ready at the cemetery and the men would walk the coffin there . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's after a quick snort , ’ Jess said . |
| 15 | Christ , when you get close enough they 're not even really ugly , and that 's after a week on the road with the face-wrinkling prospect of four more weeks to go . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's after the transplant when she felt so good and was out running about . |
| 17 | Here The Bookseller 's JENNIFER TAYLOR chooses some Christmas bestseller front-runners for children of all ages : AN instantly appealing book for younger children is Nick Butterworth 's After The Storm ( HarperCollins £8.99 ) , a follow-up to last year 's hugely successful One Snowy Night . |
| 18 | Do n't tell me he 's after hiring new staff . |
| 19 | A few moments before sundown I extricated Wavebreaker 's folding bicycle from the big locker on the boat 's after swim-platform , forced the rusting hinges open , then pedalled along Midshipman Road to the glittering block of apartments where our esteemed boss lived . |
| 20 | the wife 's perfume or hubby 's after shave , |
| 21 | She senses what he 's after : she ca n't exactly explain it , but she knows that he could take her away . |
| 22 | I said : ‘ It 's after three o'clock . |
| 23 | While Dirk de Vos , curator of the Stedelijke Museum , Bruges , has asked for it to be included in his forthcoming Memling exhibition , the date of 1496 on the frame ( two year 's after Memling 's death ) led Sotheby 's to stick to ‘ School of Bruges , late fifteenth century ’ , suggesting a Franco-Flemish or Burgundian artist , close to the Master of the Moulins . |
| 24 | To make that point in another way , in terms of tradition , it is striking , when you come to Shakespeare 's after a reading of other Renaissance sonnets , to note the absence of proper names . |
| 25 | As soon as one of my clients looks like winning anything important , he 's after him . |
| 26 | Accompanying the little Tsunamis on their maiden voyage will be the great Sun Dragon , now renamed the Sparc Center 2000 , the biggest beast Sun has ever tried to field and a clear signal it 's after the Fortune 1000 's distributed data centre . |
| 27 | Well it 's only two week 's after . |
| 28 | The sale ( subject to British export control regulations ) was made through Christie 's after the completion of the loan period and after the National Gallery had been offered first refusal . |
| 29 | She got a friend at the printer 's after all . |
| 30 | He 's after Bernard , right ? |