Example sentences of "follow [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several companions followed Peregrine through the congestion of officers and baggage . |
| 2 | He followed Tammuz up the corridor into his office and accepted a plastic cup of lukewarm killer coffee . |
| 3 | A Sergeant Williams in London followed Tawell from the train around several of the capital 's coffee houses before he returned to Quaker 's lodgings at Cheapside . |
| 4 | Benjamin , who had been walking for a month , found himself less welcome in his mother 's room and followed Ruth around the house like a pet lamb . |
| 5 | I followed Kalchu behind the crowd to a place where there were fewer people and we could go right up to the water 's edge . |
| 6 | I followed Jones at the Tournament of Champions , which he won , and even predicted victory for him at the Bob Hope , which he also won . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're very kind , ’ Eleanor repeated mechanically and followed Melissa from the church like a submissive child . |
| 8 | Darwin was one of a small group of naturalists who took the opposite route , following Lyell in the search for natural processes at work in the present and the recent past that would throw light on the distribution of life around the globe today . |
| 9 | Following Freud in the spirit of a belief in the isomorphism of mind and body , they set out to do what he did , but in the light of modern findings about the physiology of sleep mechanisms . |
| 10 | This meant , first and foremost , following Bacon in the making of natural histories . |
| 11 | As the only bridesmaid , she had been following Liz up the aisle of the small country church , nervously clutching her bouquet of trailing greenery and praying that she would n't make the awful mistake of treading on the long train of Liz 's wedding dress . |