transitive verb
Definition 1
Go or come after (moving person or thing).
Source: Concise Oxford Dictionary
Context: After BMW and Toyota followed Honda out of the sport [motor racing], the grid in Bahrain consists of 12 teams, with eight based in the UK.
Source: Financial Times 13/03/2010 (Roger Blitz, Leisure Industries Correspondent)
Definition 2
Go along (path, route, etc.)
Source: Invertext, from Concise Oxford Dictionary
Context: Finally, they followed the path often taken by successful entrepreneurs: investing in other people's businesses.
Source: Financial Times 21/02/2011 (Mike Southon)
Definition 3
Show interest in, go after (person or thing) as follower, supporter, etc.
Source: Concise Oxford Dictionary
Context: He does not follow football, but is fascinated by Fifa.
Source: Financial Times 23/06/2011 (Jeremy Hazlehurst)
Definition 4
Be the necessary or usual consequence of, be involved or implicated in.
Source: Invertext, from Concise Oxford Dictionary
Context: Good money follows bad.
Source: gulfinthemedia.com
Definition 5
Pay attention to, keep up with (lesson, plot, argument, etc.).
Source: Invertext
Context: What non-scientists need to know to follow the debate on climate change.
Source: Financial Times 09/02/2008 (Andrew Robinson)
Definition 6
Watch moving object.
Source: Invertext, from Concise Oxford Dictionary
Context: I first saw it just above the horizon, and followed the [unidentified] object until it disappeared.
Source: anakinovni.org