Sentence examples for were after in from inspiring English sources

But that's almost what you were after in the first place, right?

In short, there is no end of ideas, which was what we were after in the first place.

In his most recent Letterman interview, Phoenix explained that authenticity was what they were after in I'm Still Here.

Campos, 19, is years away from joining the Yankees, and he was not the prized prospect they were after in the trade.

"What we were after in eliminating loans was to make it simpler for students of modest means to think about private higher education," Nancy Malkiel, dean of Princeton's college, says.

The N.H.L. owners won the main thing they were after in the new collective bargaining agreement – reducing the players' share of revenue from 57 percent to an eventual 50 percent, but the players are expected to approve the deal by a wide margin in voting that ends Saturday morning.

Perhaps that is what he's after in referring to Ben Friedman's book.

That is really what I am after in this profession of mine, as a musician.

Increasing gun ownership is what Raymond said he was after in planning to sell the iP1.

"Sometimes," I went on, "friendship's all we're after in the first place".

Letter-writing evidently furnished a model for what he was after in his books.