Example sentences of "[prep] he [prep] [art] [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 | They gave up and chased after him through the thin trees . |
| 10 | Confused , she went after him down the winding stairs into the kitchen and let him organise hot drinks . |
| 11 | Basha looked after him in the small village . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The ambulance came , and she ended up looking after him in the intensive care unit . |
| 15 | She 'd had all of four or five hours , before she 'd come rushing after him like a lovelorn schoolgirl … |
| 16 | Father Poole pointed to the chair opposite him on the other side of the fireplace . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I walked towards him on the stony track |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He worked for Michael but was n't as subservient towards him as the other boys . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He turned , watching the priest coming towards him through the falling snow . |
| 27 | Rooks streamed up towards him from a small area of woodland . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Hurtling towards him in the swirling fog was a huge lorry powerless to stop on the icy carriageway . |