Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has to walk after him with little trowel and paper bag . |
| 2 | They were concerned to be caring and look after him at this time of tragedy , and he was just not really taking in what had happened . |
| 3 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
| 4 | My dad would say , Stay well away from them , he was always afraid they were after him for all the taxes he had n't paid . |
| 5 | Ace followed her , prudently shutting the big sliding glass doors after him for more privacy . |
| 6 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 7 | So we really we one of us to be here to look after him in that sense , one of us gets paid |
| 8 | They were first noticed by Poynting and the effect is named after him in this branch of materials science . |
| 9 | Yet there had never been any reserve in her , bearing towards him on that account . |
| 10 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 11 | Her thighs were well spread , her back arched , and her backside was thrust out towards him like some amorous baboon . |
| 12 | He had brought with him reading that was expected of him during this vacation , works on sociology and on linguistics and some where these two studies converged , but these were not the sort of books one much wanted to read under the hot sun and the influence of wine . |
| 13 | Certainly the picture of him during this period is of a man haunted by guilt and remorse ; it seems that he felt he had no right to happiness , and the death of his wife had only served to convince him that he had done some irreparable harm to another human being , for which he must undergo a period of punishment . |
| 14 | Funny old tramp , the leaves fall of him without those , they get stalkier and stalkier as time goes on |
| 15 | ‘ Everyone seemed to think Benjamin was a virgin , but I never thought of him as that , but that it was the first time he was making love to a woman who was old enough to be his mother , and who was his mother 's friend . ’ |
| 16 | She 'd never thought of him as that sort of man . |
| 17 | It is he — another person , she told herself , I must think of him as another person . |
| 18 | This rather cooled their high spirits , because Missenden 's failure to do what was required of him about some case of ecclesiastical preferment was criticized . |
| 19 | To this day , Hardy , himself having achieved the double of classical and popular success as an actor , speaks of him at that time with unaffected adulation . |
| 20 | Ronni felt proud of him at that moment . |
| 21 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
| 22 | That 's what I think of him when I think of him at all . ’ |
| 23 | And she had wondered how it was she was speaking of him at all . |
| 24 | Hank , when Mrs Stych thought of him at all , always gave her a headache . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't like the look of him at all , ’ said Angalo . |
| 26 | When we at last learned his name , we had not heard of him at all . |
| 27 | Did n't you think of Him at all ? ’ |
| 28 | What he thought of Canon Wheeler , if he thought of him at all , he had never , in his gentlemanly fashion , revealed to anyone . |
| 29 | No news of him at all ? |
| 30 | We have another description of him at this date from a diarist who happened to meet him . |