Example sentences of "[prep] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slapped a stone down , in the corner nearest him on the right . |
| 2 | The Rabbitohs were to contribute to international Rugby League one of the great backs of any era , Clive Churchill , the Little Master , so dazzling there is even a stand named after him at the Sydney Cricket Ground . |
| 3 | Berthe Weill shrugged and crossed the street after him to the catcalls of the crowd . |
| 4 | Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , thank you ! ’ she said , but her smile withered at the sight of his expression and she trailed after him towards the car park without a word or a glance at the others . |
| 6 | Her legs felt absolutely leaden as she trudged after him towards the house . |
| 7 | They gave up and chased after him through the thin trees . |
| 8 | He drags me after him through the woods . |
| 9 | She took his hand and , with a sense of stepping from the present into the past , from the known into what had become utterly strange , scrambled up and ran after him into the night . |
| 10 | He would have had to drive to the farm , learn of Mungo 's destination from Alice , and trudge after him across the fields . |
| 11 | Then with fumbling fingers she extracted her soap and hurled the bag after him across the bathroom floor . |
| 12 | Confused , she went after him down the winding stairs into the kitchen and let him organise hot drinks . |
| 13 | There were fans everywhere and people chasing after him in the streets . |
| 14 | His speed and Lachlan 's bull charge through the fight , drawing their own men after him in the vacuum of his passage , ran him and them down into the water as well . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Already suffering from physical ailment , and surrounded by some marvellous women who took it in turns to look after him in the evening of his life , he was a fount of ideas and vision . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Basha looked after him in the small village . |
| 19 | The ambulance came , and she ended up looking after him in the intensive care unit . |
| 20 | The decision to place Gareth in the care of his grandparents , who have looked after him in the past while his mother was working , was taken by Strathclyde Regional Council 's social work department . |
| 21 | Yes , they have n't really looked after him in the field have they ? |
| 22 | , but Benguiat took it as like a threat to and went after him in the lobby of hall and they had to be prised apart . |
| 23 | His economic measures bore fruit , but the constitution was overturned by Peisistratos , who made himself tyrant early in the second quarter and held power ( with interruptions ) and his sons after him till the expulsion of Hippias in 510 . |
| 24 | Alice ran after him like the wind . |
| 25 | Michael Harvey was assigned to look after him inside the house . |
| 26 | Father Poole pointed to the chair opposite him on the other side of the fireplace . |
| 27 | She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest . |
| 28 | But Rosa motioned to him to sit , and sat herself down , opposite him at the table , expectant . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I sat opposite him at the Christmas do and he spent ages talking to me . |