Collocations for follow - verb

closely
Johnson finished first, closely followed by Stevens and Higgins.

reluctantly
dutifully, obediently
The dog followed obediently at her heels.

blindly
She followed blindly, stumbling over stones in her path.

quietly, silently
slowly
on
You go ahead and we'll follow on later.

beckon sb to, beckon to sb to
She beckoned him to follow her.

being followed
As she walked home, she had the feeling she was being followed.

follow close behind (sb), follow right behind (sb)
Ray came out of the bedroom, Mary following close behind.

closely, quickly, shortly, soon, swiftly
More information will follow shortly.

directly, immediately, instantly
in the period immediately following the election

(be) followed by sth
Any argument was always followed by a few days of silence.

follow in the wake of sth
the workers' revolts that followed in the wake of the student uprising

not necessarily
It does not necessarily follow that sleep loss would cause these symptoms.

logically
naturally
automatically

(on) from
Several conclusions follow on from his statement.

carefully, to the letter
Follow my instructions very carefully.

dutifully, obediently

faithfully
The movie follows the book faithfully.

blindly, slavishly
It wasn't in his nature to follow blindly.
slavishly following the views of his teachers

be expected to, be likely to
Other companies are likely to follow Z-Quest in applying for an exemption.

follow in sb's footsteps
He wanted to follow in his mother's footsteps and be a ballroom dancer.

follow in the tradition of sb/sth
How do your feel your writing follows in the tradition of the South?

follow suit (= act or behave in the way that sb else has just done)

not quite
I'm sorry, but I don't quite follow you (= understand what you are saying).

be easy to
be difficult to, be hard to, be impossible to
His argument was difficult to follow.

Follow is used with these nouns as the subject:
adjective, consequence, disappointment, eye, fighting, footpath, furore, gaze, hound, movie, noun, path, pause, quiet, recommendation, retribution, riot, route, silence, trail

Follow is used with these nouns as the object:
advice, agenda, approach, arc, arrow, baseball, belief, blueprint, clue, coast, coastline, code, conscience, convention, counsel, course, cricket, crowd, cue, curriculum, custom, cycle, design, diet, direction, directive, doctrine, dream, drift, example, fashion, father, flow, football, footpath, footprint, footstep, format, formula, fortune, gaze, god, guidance, guideline, heart, herd, hunch, impulse, inclination, injunction, instinct, instruction, itinerary, law, lead, line, link, logic, map, maxim, method, movement, news, noun, occupation, order, path, pattern, philosophy, plan, policy, politics, practice, precaution, precedent, procedure, programme, progress, pursuit, reasoning, recipe, recommendation, regime, regimen, religion, rhythm, ritual, river, road, route, routine, rule, ruling, scent, sequence, shore, sign, step, story, strategy, style, suggestion, syllabus, teaching, thread, timetable, tip, track, trade, tradition, trail, trend, vocation, whim