Example sentences of "[prep] he for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We stood and stared after him for a few seconds , then one of the mortar team behind me remarked . |
| 2 | His cutaway heel is world-class stuff , and with a patent in the pipeline I can think of a number of major manufacturers who 'll be after him for a slice of the licensing action . |
| 3 | ‘ I was assigned to look after him for a while , ’ Harvey answered . |
| 4 | She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dora glared after him for a few seconds before turning away and striding across the garden towards the orchard . |
| 7 | I looked after him for a few days before he died . ’ |
| 8 | Dana stared after him for a moment , then turned a malevolent glare on Claudia . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | been round there once or twice after him for a different thing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Endill did not know what he meant by this and ran after him for an explanation . |
| 13 | ‘ WHIT 'S yer name hen ? ’ the drunk and dishevelled man on the train asked the woman opposite him for the fourth time in a very loud voice . |
| 14 | But Kirk 's reputation went ahead of him for a few years to come . |
| 15 | Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce . |
| 16 | When he 'd said he 'd seen Stephen at the funeral she 'd felt afraid of him for a moment . |
| 17 | He could fly all day long and all night long if he wanted , but I wanted him to get 100 hours at night and I felt that despite his enthusiasm I would like to he shot of him for a period . |
| 18 | The producer Jerome Hellman had seen Dustin in Eh ? and had thought of him for the part way back then . |
| 19 | Though he knew the press would be sending a photographer to take a picture of him for the financial pages of the newspaper , he suspected that their main interest was in Hank . |
| 20 | None the less in 1329 he did simple homage ( all that was asked of him for the moment ) at Amiens , following this up with liege homage in 1331 . |
| 21 | ‘ Allocate a man to take care of him for the next few days until his tutor , T'ai Cho , joins him . ’ |
| 22 | I told him I had learnt how to fight against him for a start . |
| 23 | He held her against him for a moment . |
| 24 | Mr Wilson complained to an industrial tribunal that the company had taken action , short of dismissal , against him for the purpose of deterring him from being or penalising him for being a member of the NUJ , contrary to s 23 of the EP(C)A . |
| 25 | Lacking any financial acumen , he ran into difficulties with the Inland Revenue which filed a bankruptcy petition against him for the unpaid tax on his ring earnings : the order was for over £17 000 . |
| 26 | The current state of Preston 's finances put taxi rides across London among the long list of temptations he would have to put behind him for a while . |
| 27 | He stoked the fire so that it flared , then reached behind him for a pouch of thin leather which contained charred bones . |
| 28 | But by 1830 Burn had left the Greek revival behind him for the subdued Italianate of his branch banks and the big , simple palazzo from of his New Club on Edinburgh 's Princes Street of 1834 . |
| 29 | I walked back behind him for the last several hundred yards , and was shocked at the sheer , mindless , bestial ferocity of the crowd . |
| 30 | It was full of pieces of paper , which he dropped behind him for the other boys to follow . |