Example sentences of "[been] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been after a pair for ages . |
| 2 | It was n't Caspar that had been after the lambs . |
| 3 | It had looked suspicious , I had done right to inform them , they said kindly , but the man had nothing on his person at all , and said he had been after rabbits . |
| 4 | — He 'll have been after the takings , from the kiosk . |
| 5 | Therefore the Australian move to make whaling more humane was in fact a move to get back to the way it had been after a serious deterioration . |
| 6 | I think the Germans had been after ‘ Salt Peter ’ , but they got the empty coal yard and one or two small buses instead . |
| 7 | If words such as scio and non dubito in the second half of the second century were not regarded as showing clear intention to set up trusts , might they have been after these cases ? |
| 8 | I felt pleased of course , but strangely enough I did n't feel as elated as perhaps I should have done : not as elated as I had been after setting my British record in Madrid . |
| 9 | It must , she thought sipping her tea , have been after one o'clock when he returned from seeing Hilary Robarts home . |
| 10 | Funny thing was , he thought to himself , as he walked back to his own house , they might not have been after me at all . |
| 11 | Mr Jarvis , who first gained the attention of Mrs Major through his readings of the Richmal Crompton 's William stories , says : ‘ The BBC have been after me to record some more William stories but I have decided that one series a year is quite enough . |
| 12 | Again , she was all alone , as she had been after her father 's death , and after Spanish Fork . |
| 13 | Biggins , who scored 22 goals last season and was on target again on Saturday , has been after a wage rise for some time and is currently on a weekly contract . |
| 14 | Have n't I been after having a Number One record just the other , um , year ? |
| 15 | ‘ Not yet , ’ said Joe , wondering exactly what Archie Cousins had been after , and why . |
| 16 | ‘ Mind , 'e might 'ave been after all me little gels , they bein' 'ighly valuable . ’ |
| 17 | High as their hopes had been after the OpEC price rise of 1973 , the Group of 77 failed to get substantial support for its proposed Integrated programme for Commodities . |
| 18 | I think it as before the War but I 'm not quite sure mind either , could have been after the War . |
| 19 | You know probably if you got a younger person , he probably would have been after him , square up to him , and erm . |
| 20 | It must have been after the last job we did for you . ’ |
| 21 | It made it no better for her that they had been after her father . |
| 22 | Pool on the Add with a monster trout in it ; been after the swine for months . |
| 23 | I imagined that , having got what you 've been after all week , you 'd be quite happy to agree … ’ |
| 24 | ‘ She 's always been after your job . |
| 25 | What excellent company you keep in recommending Chambers — not all of them are quite politically correct but I 've been after the broadest sweep possible . |
| 26 | I 've been after them for a long time and I 'll get them for this . ’ |
| 27 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
| 28 | He fled from persecution in Japan , where a gargantuan madness industry has been after him . |
| 29 | Linigan 's goal later left the forlorn Chris Waddle and his Wednesday mates in tears as Wembley became a sea of red-and-white just as it had been after the same Coca-Cola Cup scoreline a month earlier . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , it must have been after that he had his accident . ’ |