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Example sentences for "after him"

  • Here my guide landed and I after him and he took my hand and led me to a street I had never before entered, nor do I know in what quarter it is.

  • By golly, we'll stake her to a hay knife and tell her to go after him!

  • Then he went out and shut the door after him.

  • I wish you'd saddle up an' go after him, Chip, if yuh can.

  • Strictly speaking indeed, he when he made it known did not take in the whole, but those wise men who came after him made it known more at large.

  • Let's after him, Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome.

  • If truth and upright innocency fail me, I'll to the King my master that is dead, And tell him who hath sent me after him.

  • I, after him, do after him wish too, Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home, I quickly were dissolved from my hive, To give some labourers room.

  • Thousands had tried this before him and will try it after him.

  • I know he is here, Tom, and I shan't go after him.

  • His exclamation brought the others round after him and a group of excited faces encircled this old man seated sternly composed.

  • Since Christ is an Intercessor, I infer that believers should not rest at the cross for comfort; justification they should look for there; but, being justified by his blood, they should ascend up after him to the throne.

  • Grizzly understood matters and set off after him, leaving to the sagacious Cap to thread his way to the other side of the running cattle.

  • Men like those horsemen are quick to recover from a surprise, and it would have seemed that Sterry was hardly started in his flight when they were speeding after him.

  • Neddy scrambled up after him, finding some help from a stunted but sturdy old apple tree that grew against the wall.

  • Mr. Saffron had entered from the door leading to the Tower, carefully closing it after him.

  • He led her in, pulling the door to after him, and placed her and himself in front of the two small armchairs opposite Mr. Saffron's throne.

  • And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.

  • And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?

  • Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.

  • And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.

  • The emperor resolved to make one more attempt to bring the Belgians to reason, and to this end he sent Count Cobenzl to Brussels, and, after him, Prince de Ligne.

  • Then came her hated son-in-law, Henry of Navarre; after him, Louis XIII.

  • For a moment the other two stood staring after him.

  • I remember that his mother came into our little room under the eaves and made Andy say his prayers, and me after him.

  • He ran to the house to seek Mr. Carvel, and I after him, with all a boy's curiosity, as fast as my small legs would carry me.

  • After him came a certain Major Hay, Indian-enticer of detested memory, the lieutenant of him who followed--the Hair Buyer himself.

  • After him I loue, More then I loue these eyes, more then my life, More by all mores, then ere I shall loue wife.

  • I was inforc'd to send it after him, I was beset with shame and curtesie, My honor would not let ingratitude So much besmeare it.

  • Go after him: for he perhaps shall neede Some Messenger betwixt me, and the Peeres, And be thou hee Mes.

  • I after him, do after him wish too: Since I nor wax nor honie can bring home, I quickly were dissolued from my hiue To giue some Labourers roome 2.

  • After him (Fellowes) bring him to the blocke Pro.

  • This would have made people run after him in the street, had not his daughter covered him up, whenever he went out, in a vast bishop's wadded cloak, which concealed his attire.

  • Marius entered his room and pushed the door to after him.

  • He hovered over it; he struck other matches, he came hastening back dragging it after him.

  • Then Brodie, with a noisy explosion of laughter, smote his thigh and, after him, Benny giggled foolishly.

  • King had drawn up after him, stage after stage, the roll of bedding, using Blackie's tie-rope to haul it up and to moor it briefly.

  • Gloria saw it swing at times like a huge, misshapen pendulum; watched it crawl up after him.

  • Good night," answered Lapham abruptly, following him to the door, and shutting it after him.

  • He says there are some English parties after him to buy these mills.

  • You'll see it at its worst, for Bryce decamped abroad last Monday without even arranging for a charwoman to clear up after him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after alluding; after being; after bowing; after considerable; after cooling; after dark; after death; after dinner; after drinking; after exposure; after forty; after four; after having; after listening; after partaking; after period; after reading; after receiving; after seeing; after waiting; afternoon teas; afterward learned; afterwards became; exceeding abundantly above all; para que; wild asses