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Example sentences for "after her"

  • Did she at any time immediately before or after her marriage to Mr. Amidon get a glimpse of any one in the adjoining house?

  • After her husband's death, which occurred very soon, she let me come to her and we had a long talk--Shall I ever forget it or the sight of her beauty in that sordid room?

  • The door, which had been open, remained so, and in my anxiety I crept to it and looked in after her.

  • She went straight to her room and I after her.

  • Lady Pomfret bought the statues, after her lord's death, and presented them to the University of Oxford.

  • Lady Caroline Petersham had scraped together a few foreigners, after her christening; but I cannot say that the party was much livelier than if it had met at Madame Montandre's.

  • I sat up gaming all night, and not come home at all to her, after her lady-mother had been persuaded that I was the soberest young nobleman in England, and had the greatest aversion to play'!

  • But if there is any anxiety, let her brother come and look after her.

  • After her father's sudden death, the shelter, such as it was, of his name and companionship was withdrawn.

  • The enmity between Lomax and Purcell of course kept the families apart, and, after her mother's early death, Purcell sent his daughter to a boarding-school and so washed his hands of the trouble of her bringing up.

  • After her he brought a citizen's daughter; and, in a word, there was every day a maid married, and a wife murdered.

  • What shall I say to him at his return, when he inquires of me after her?

  • After her death I persisted with constancy in the belief of its divinity: and I abhor the false god Nardoun, and the adoration of fire.

  • Eric went up after her, often slipping back and bruising and scratching his hands and knees, but as resolute as his playmate.

  • Ivra pushed it open and Eric followed in after her, wondering at going into a tree.

  • After her death I will confess that I am a Christian and follow her.

  • With the confidence of a child she assured Vinicius that immediately after her suffering in the arena she would tell Christ that her betrothed Marcus had remained in Rome, that he was longing for her with his whole heart.

  • FN#127] So I arose and went in after her and we gave not over going till we entered a saloon.

  • He had to take his scabbard in his left hand and fairly run after her.

  • In that soft hour he won her to name the day, after her fashion.

  • Jacintha mimicked, after her fashion, the mingled grief and ire of infancy debarred its jam.

  • She often said that it would be so, but when so saying, always expressed a wish that the fight might be carried on after her death.

  • He must be good, or he would not have come down here after her.

  • None killed the damsel but I; so God on thee, make haste to hang me, or there is no living for me after her!

  • All this came of the lying story of the slave, and this was the manner of my killing her; so I conjure thee, by the honour of thy forefathers, make haste to kill me and do her justice on me, for there is no living for me after her.

  • What'll she think of it after her aunt's?

  • After her father's death, she took the title of Countess of Dysart, although there was some dispute about the right of her father to any title.

  • He appears to have acted, after her father's death, as Dorothy's guardian, and his name occurs more than once in the pages of her letters.

  • She will have eight hundred pounds a year, 'tis true, after her mother's death; but how they will live till then I cannot imagine.

  • After her husband's death, she retired to Brington in Northamptonshire, until, wearied with the heavy load of housekeeping, she came to live with her father and mother at Penshurst.

  • But the creature is arrogant, and calls me 'child;' and half the peerage is after her.

  • She never got on with England and English people--and at last, after her husband's death, she never went outside the house and park.

  • After her movement of wild sympathy with Mrs. Mason, she realised now, as Polly's chatter slipped on, that she understood her cousins almost as little as she did Helbeck.

  • The poor wife came from a large Lancashire family, but she hardly saw her relations after her marriage; she was ashamed of her husband's failings and of their growing poverty.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after cooling; after dark; after death; after drinking; after five; after her; after life; after listening; after looking; after partaking; after period; after repeated; after school; after supper; after taking; after that; after the same manner; after times; after various; after what has happened; after which; afterwards discovered; another part; half from; right half; she loved