Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he was now nearly twenty , he was still considerably smaller than even Mike , who was nearest him in age . |
| 2 | Fran stared after him with tears in her eyes and an ache in her heart . |
| 3 | Yeah well we 've got a little antique box a jewellery box and it 's embossed the pattern round it , and the pattern round it is a boar hunt and it 's beautiful , there 's a little boar galloping his heart out with horsemen after him with spears and he 's all the way round the box and I thought of adding him on to the copper kettle you know as engraved all round the outside . |
| 4 | He just walked away and Maggie lost further minutes staring after him with murder running through her mind . |
| 5 | A previous lodger had departed on receipt of a message that the rozzers were after him on account of a jeweller 's broken window . |
| 6 | And before dawn Lachlan left with three galleys , and Hector went after him at mid-morning with two , saying he must prevent Lachlan harming the honour of the clan . |
| 7 | For example Mrs Snell , who was looking after her husband said that she could still manage to look after him at home ; she was doing a little more for him than last year because he was physically frailer and more uncooperative , but she was getting the right amount of help and was quite satisfied . |
| 8 | ‘ Let's hope so , ’ she said , and told them that her parents were furious because Josh , her grandmother 's lodger , had left all his money and possessions to Kate and not even mentioned her grandmother who had looked after him for years . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ When your brother Maurice 's wife was ill and David was an infant I understand you looked after him from time to time . ’ |
| 10 | She looked after him in alarm . |
| 11 | James Vane stared after him in horror . |
| 12 | He spun round and walked off and Maggie looked after him in dismay . |
| 13 | He wanted to find Mr Brownlow , the kind old man who had looked after him in London . |
| 14 | The pilgrims went in after him in groups of five or six at a time . |
| 15 | She stared after him in disbelief , filled with disappointment and a growing anger . |
| 16 | He closed the car door , then strolled towards the house and disappeared inside , leaving Fran staring after him in disbelief . |
| 17 | ‘ You horrid little toad , ’ his sister yelled after him in exasperation , foreseeing a long night of sewing ahead of her . |
| 18 | He smiled and moved swiftly out of her office , leaving Rachel staring after him in exasperation . |
| 19 | Given that its hero 's fatal handicap was the size of his nose , it seemed to me most tactless that there should be a ‘ pneumological ’ institute named after him in Cambo , when the last thing he can have suffered from was breathing problems . |
| 20 | Twice Iorwerth 's warning signal had fetched them hastily to their pre-arranged places ; but on the first occasion Isambard had shunned the dripping copse and ridden away down the softer slopes eastward of Parfois , with his attendants strung out after him like beads on the string of darker green he left in the wet grass ; and on the second it had been a full-scale hunt with a dozen or more guests and very nearly fifty retainers , and Owen had held his hand , unwilling to venture against such odds . |
| 21 | I was off after him like Zola Budd . |
| 22 | Here at Whaddon I have allowed his talent to blossom and I would not be surprised to see the League big boys sniffing after him before Christmas , and Darren to be a regular in Barnet reserves by the end of the season . |
| 23 | One boy , seeing an adult , rushed towards him with intestines hanging out and screaming ‘ Help me ! |
| 24 | A child , a small , dark , hooded figure was sweeping across the grass towards him with hands joined as if in prayer . |
| 25 | We allow our feelings to flow out towards him in adoration , confession , thanksgiving and praise . |
| 26 | Worries streak towards him like enemy spaceships in one of Gary 's video games . |
| 27 | Half in and half out of the window , Jack looked down at the scene below him in disappointment . |
| 28 | Plus that other thing that was at you know that it it stated it 's a way of getting rid of him without redundancy . |
| 29 | In looking back to his playing days , you can not think of him without Jim Shackleton . |
| 30 | I had never suspected she had ever loved any man but Simon Ellis and I knew she could not have been referring to him since she had never spoken of him without affection and great kindness . |