Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The one thing Phil is still learning is how to cope when batsmen get after him on a good pitch .
2 Harold acceded at once and I trotted dutifully after him to a small anteroom adjoining the Cabinet room .
3 I remember at the time Wilko saying how he though Kerslake was an excellent buy , and how he 'd been after him for a long time .
4 The probation found a little stray dog called Benjy for me and I looked after him for a little while , but my money kept on going down and down and down .
5 been round there once or twice after him for a different thing .
6 I looked after him for a few days before he died . ’
7 We stood and stared after him for a few seconds , then one of the mortar team behind me remarked .
8 Dora glared after him for a few seconds before turning away and striding across the garden towards the orchard .
9 She 'd had all of four or five hours , before she 'd come rushing after him like a lovelorn schoolgirl
10 When Auntie Jean slammed Uncle Ted 's tea on the table at the end of each day — a meat pie and chips , or a nice bit of rump steak and tartar sauce ( he had n't the nerve yet to go vegetarian ) — she sat opposite him with a stiff drink and demanded facts about Eva and Dad .
11 The animal seemed to understand Sir John 's words for it lunged towards him with a strangled growl ; its top lip curled , showing teeth as sharp as a row of daggers .
12 Rooks streamed up towards him from a small area of woodland .
13 Such a lightning-spattered ending is found , for example , in Passionate Summer ( 1958 ) , where for most of the film the schoolteacher on a Caribbean Island has been keeping at bay the emotions directed towards him by a troubled pupil , the headmaster 's wife and an air hostess .
14 For him , at that time and in that position , everything that could be seen between the distant boundaries of blue hill and black mountain , everything that spread below him under a fathomless heaven , was resonant with new meaning , new speech , new glory .
15 In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End .
16 Nothing further is known of him beyond a minor land acquisition in 1538 until , in 1540 , he suddenly emerged as a gentleman of Henry VIII 's privy chamber , a post he was to retain under the young Edward .
17 Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels .
18 She had tales to tell of him as a small boy , as a young man .
19 One was always conscious of him as a great Christian ; only later did you become conscious of his denominational affiliation .
20 At the same time he is depicted as a saint by the bishop of Tours , who may well have thought of him as a fellow victim of Merovingian politics .
21 Although Alexander lent his authority to domestic reforms , it is unwise to think of him as a daring pilot in extremity .
22 Biggs is of the opinion that Mason would be unlikely to survive more than a couple of rounds against the world heavyweight champion and at this stage it would be unwise to even think of him as a genuine contender .
23 She thought of him as a drug-running tyrant .
24 ‘ Surely the photographs of him as a younger man — ’
25 She thought of him as a big tree , with strong branches that enabled her to climb him , which she did when he was home .
26 His admirers think of him as a national treasure , rather like the works of art of which he is Congress 's most passionate defender .
27 His fellow-undergraduates thought of him as a gangly youth with brown hair .
28 For one thing , the Hebrews did not divide man up into spirit , mind and body as we tend to do : they thought of him as a single entity , an animated body , a living person .
29 We were sitting cross-legged on either side of him with a vast array of tiny dishes on finely worked brass trays stretching before us , and entirely lit by Aladdin lamps on specially wrought stands .
30 She felt as distant from Dada as on that faraway teatime when he had turned down Dora 's Dolls ' House in favour of his photograph album though now she thought of him with a gentle benevolence , the distance between them was changeless .
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