Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | She 'd had all of four or five hours , before she 'd come rushing after him like a lovelorn schoolgirl … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Rooks streamed up towards him from a small area of woodland . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had tales to tell of him as a small boy , as a young man . |
| 16 | One was always conscious of him as a great Christian ; only later did you become conscious of his denominational affiliation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Although Alexander lent his authority to domestic reforms , it is unwise to think of him as a daring pilot in extremity . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She thought of him as a drug-running tyrant . |
| 21 | ‘ Surely the photographs of him as a younger man — ’ |
| 22 | She thought of him as a big tree , with strong branches that enabled her to climb him , which she did when he was home . |
| 23 | His admirers think of him as a national treasure , rather like the works of art of which he is Congress 's most passionate defender . |
| 24 | His fellow-undergraduates thought of him as a gangly youth with brown hair . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He held the wig in front of him like a withered bouquet . |
| 29 | Sometimes she was served up garnished with prizes , a certificate of excellence in swimming or a merit card from a teacher , but more often than not she was slapped down in front of him like a British Rail sandwich , garnished with a series of medical complaints . |
| 30 | All she did know was that she had n't seen the last of him by a long chalk ! |