Example sentences of "[prep] him and [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She fetched antiseptic and some cotton wool , then bent towards him and dabbed at the place , a pose that brought their heads close together . |
| 2 | He waited a few moments until the footsteps were directly below him and peeked over the edge . |
| 3 | They took no notice of him and stood on the front step , talking in low voices . |
| 4 | He motioned an unwilling Adjutant and Sergeant out ahead of him and stood by the open door , frowning so deeply that Clarissa would have followed if Charity had n't risked leaving her defences and staked all on a final devastating attack . |
| 5 | And she brushed past him and continued down the road until she came to a place where two paths crossed and there was a little clearing . |
| 6 | If that was so , Doyle won , because the Woman suddenly crossed the room , pushed past him and ran down the stairs . |
| 7 | With one last blinding cry of pain she brushed past him and ran from the room . |
| 8 | But the rest of his appeal was lost as Erika pushed past him and stood at the end of the bus , well aware that Paul would rather postpone his appeal than stand the two slow lurching miles to the club . |
| 9 | He called ‘ Goodbye , see you tomorrow , ’ and closed the door behind him and went to the lift and pressed the button |
| 10 | Taking advantage of Guy 's momentary stupefaction , she wriggled out from under him and leapt off the bed , everything forgotten but the need to escape from something she dared not put a name to . |
| 11 | And he gathered his feet under him and hurried after the others . |
| 12 | Abruptly she turned away from him and walked into the apartment 's lounge , not consciously knowing why she did so , but driven by a need to get away from this man and the harshness of his condemnation , which should n't matter to her , because he did n't matter , but which nevertheless called up a churning confusion of resentment and frustration , as well as a new , unnerving hurt . |
| 13 | She swung away from him and started to the car . |
| 14 | She took it from him and sipped at the sweet sherry , reminded by its taste that he bought it specially because she did n't like sweet sherry . |
| 15 | He pushed the Diet Cola away from him and climbed off the stool . |
| 16 | Hurrying under cover of darkness up to Roscarrock Hall where a real priest was visiting from Ireland or Spain , they whispered their confessions to him , received absolution from him and knelt in the Roscarrock family chapel to hear a proper Latin Mass and to receive in their mouths the living sacrifice , the Body of Christ . |
| 17 | She was waiting for him and ran across the entrance court to meet him . |
| 18 | She made the connection for him and gestured towards the phone at the end of the counter . |
| 19 | I may even have just called for him and stood at the door . |
| 20 | I lay in the bed beside him and stared at the ceiling . |
| 21 | The bird , which Gould called the harlequin bronzewing , and which later became known as the flock pigeon , rose from the water beside him and alighted on the ground 40 yards away , just within reach of Gould 's expert aim . |
| 22 | George stared at the bagpipes as I clambered into the passenger seat beside him and sat with the pipes on my lap . |
| 23 | Anne introduced John and when Eileen moved away , Anne said goodbye to him and walked up the road with her sister , wheeling her bicycle . |
| 24 | And she 'd never want to , she reminded herself resolutely as she turned her back on him and walked towards the house , acutely conscious of his eyes following her every step . |
| 25 | She turned her back on him and stared through the window . |
| 26 | He nodded politely at the astonished face that Glyn turned on him and moved to the door . |
| 27 | Oliver scowled at him and went behind the plant , muttering a spell he had made up that morning . |
| 28 | Scott looked up at him and motioned towards the policeman . |
| 29 | She stole an anxious look at him and withered from the frosty blast of his basilisk stare . |
| 30 | They took one look at him and scampered over the fence as quickly as rats over the timbers of a sinking ship . |