Example sentences of "after [v-ing] him [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH spy Ian Spiro left bloody fingerprints smeared on his son 's bedroom walls after blasting him in the head twice with a handgun . |
| 2 | LITTLE Miss Bossy Emma Gardner keeps a firm grip on her brother after saving him from the clutches of a child abductor . |
| 3 | After approaching him on the street and ushering him into the house he told the boy ; ’ Welcome to the Devil 's Kingdom ’ and threatened to kill him if he did nt co-operate . |
| 4 | Josh had to be squeezed into Clare 's tight weekday schedule : after taking him to the babysitter in Pimlico , she caught another bus to the shoe shop where she worked . |
| 5 | Earlier , driver Geoffrey Wellens had stopped to ask Mr Thompson if he was alright after spotting him on the road . |
| 6 | After spying him through the kitchen window with Mrs Files , so much himself , so much not Francis , I thought I did n't want to see him at all . |
| 7 | After leaving him on the bedroom floor , he returned to throw a jug of water in his father 's face . |