Using “ask after”

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okay

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examples

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after I heard that my co-worker had been

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sick I asked after her to see how she

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was feeling

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when my aunt called she asked after my

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mom and dad to see how they were doing

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in the phrase in a while the word while

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refers to a period of time

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so in a while means after a period of

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time has passed

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in the sentence you haven't been over in

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a while the speaker is expressing that

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they haven't seen or spent time with

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Sarah for a significant amount of time

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in this sentence the word over means to

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someone's place