Be after
Be after verb - Have the will and intention to carry out some action.
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Find
Find verb - To come upon after searching, study, or effort.
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The tale gets weirder in that he managed to get back to Estonia to find that the police were not interested in the fact that Finnish and Estonian authorities were both meant to be after him.
Source: Bedsheet Ladder - Ghosts with Unfinished Business tend to be after revenge but once they achieve it they will just find a new justification for sticking around.
Source: Unfinished Business - This is parodied in the South Park episode "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs", where the kids are required to read The Catcher in the Rye for school and are disappointed by how tame they find it to be after hearing so much about how controversial it was.
Source: Seinfeld Is Unfunny / Literature
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