Sentence examples for were after the from inspiring English sources

"He said you were after the money.

The deerslayers were after the deer.

Final exams were after the vacation, instead of before.

"Apparently, they were after the jars," Fowler told me.

They were after the newest craze in black market car parts: xenon gas headlights.

From his seat in the stand he surely noted how disjointed Chelsea were after the interval.

He was disappointed to hear that scores of men were after the job.

The authorities later acknowledged that they were after the wrong man.

The plays were after the Nine O'Clock News, so it was prime time.

"We are in the same place as we were after the invention of the aeroplane.

But most, if not all, of those studies were after-the-fact research: doctors looked at data on babies whose mothers had or had not breast-fed them.