Example sentences of "[prep] he [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basha looked after him in the small village . |
| 2 | Thiercelin began to nudge through the crowd of idlers around the stage door , leaving his friend gazing stoically after him in the late evening rain . |
| 3 | It was a skipper from here called Sopite ( he has his street named after him in the old town ) , who made one of the great technological advances in whaling , when he found a way to render the blubber down on board the whaler instead of having to sail all the way back home with it . |
| 4 | The ambulance came , and she ended up looking after him in the intensive care unit . |
| 5 | Father Poole pointed to the chair opposite him on the other side of the fireplace . |
| 6 | Cup in hand , she was about to sit opposite him at the small kitchen table , but the unwelcoming look in his deep blue eyes changed her mind , and she wandered aimlessly through to the living-room . |
| 7 | ‘ WHIT 'S yer name hen ? ’ the drunk and dishevelled man on the train asked the woman opposite him for the fourth time in a very loud voice . |
| 8 | Following him out of the office and down into the street , sitting beside him in the cab which took them to Covent Garden , sitting opposite him in the warm restaurant full of good smells , candlelight , fresh flowers , her predominant feeling was one of surprise . |
| 9 | I walked towards him on the stony track |
| 10 | Things , however , came to a head one day when a veterinary surgeon on his rounds , in a regulation Volvo estate , was alarmed to see Noddy tearing towards him on the wrong side of the road , in hot pursuit of a Transit van . |
| 11 | His glance had never left her as she 'd tapped towards him across the mirror-like floor , dark eyes sweeping her from head to toe to take in her black high-heeled shoes , black stockings and the stark simplicity of the black wool dress skimming her knees , with a sardonic half-smile . |
| 12 | He turned , watching the priest coming towards him through the falling snow . |
| 13 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 14 | Hurtling towards him in the swirling fog was a huge lorry powerless to stop on the icy carriageway . |
| 15 | Tina walked towards him in the rain-washed playground while Jack looked warily round for her brother . |
| 16 | He was in a dream , aware of the sharp , early air and the smell of damp earth , seeing the vast pearly spread of the estuary far away below him beyond the fading gold necklaces of the street-lights , and yet altogether apart from his everyday world . |
| 17 | The 29 year old world number 14 was convincingly beaten 6:2,6:4 by Sweden 's Jona Spenson ranked 30 places below him in the second round of the $1 million event . |
| 18 | He was about to step across to the darkness of the recess and Lily 's room when he heard footsteps and the sound of voices below him in the tiled entrance hall . |
| 19 | How curious that she could now think of him without the tiniest pang ; it was as if the shadow of Max had been totally eclipsed by the substance of Luke — with all its ramifications . |
| 20 | He openly talked of him as the probable successor to the see of Canterbury . |
| 21 | ‘ I think of him as the big brother I never had . ’ |
| 22 | Thank god he s having more shots now too — that s been my only criticism of him over the last year , now he s looking to shoot more , and scoring ! |
| 23 | And , as he finished pouring their brandies , she walked ahead of him through the open doorway and stood for a moment before the huge window , listening to the music , gazing out to sea , aware of a sense of peace and deep contentment . |
| 24 | I looked through the window and there was no sign of him through the little back window , looked through this one , there was still sign so I thought God ! |
| 25 | With the bit of paper in one hand and the keys in the other , he held his arms straight out in front of him at the same height . |
| 26 | ‘ And there … ’ she stood up and walked round the table , placing the browning photograph firmly in front of him on the bright red and white of the American-cloth table cover , ‘ there 's … ’ she pointed to a figure dimly glimpsed beside a pillar in the background . |
| 27 | Faldo had to wait until the ‘ 89 Masters before he could catch up with Lyle and maybe the picture of him on the 11th green , the second hole of a sudden-death play-off with Scott Hoch , encapsulates Europe 's men in the majors in the Eighties . |
| 28 | Conscious of a ripping sound , she heard her zip go , then her taffeta skirt was rustling to the floor and he was pulling her down among its glossy folds , his lips marauding over hers so that it was the way it was in the unrequited dreams of the empty nights when everything came down to the touch of him like the still centre of the entire world . |
| 29 | There is a portrait of him in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society , vol. lxxix , 1953 . |
| 30 | But it was vigorous criticism of him in the 1922 Committee by Tory back-benchers which convinced Brittan — and Mrs Thatcher — that he no longer enjoyed the confidence of the party in Parliament . |