Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stared down at the disgusting mass as it came away in her hand for a moment and then she marched after him with pursed lips and a determined gleam in her eyes . |
| 2 | You 'll never make it , ’ roared Rocky and took off after him with surprising speed for one of his size and bulk . |
| 3 | Has to walk after him with little trowel and paper bag . |
| 4 | Several times he stopped and listened , thinking that there had been a movement just behind him or just to the side of him , or that something had padded after him on stealthy feet and was standing watching him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He shot after him at high speed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Afterwards , the representative from the film company said , ‘ I 've been looking after him for two weeks and that 's the first time I 've seen his teeth … . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Ace followed her , prudently shutting the big sliding glass doors after him for more privacy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So we really we one of us to be here to look after him in that sense , one of us gets paid |
| 13 | The Major and the minister and the constable repeated it after him in low voices , the crowd gave them a round of applause , the reel was over . |
| 14 | They were first noticed by Poynting and the effect is named after him in this branch of materials science . |
| 15 | The mineral Gieseckite was named after him in 1817 , but his projected book on Greenland was never completed . |
| 16 | The teenage snakes tumble , somersault and skid down after him like over-zealous baby ducks in ardent pursuit of a mother figure . |
| 17 | Opposite him on one of the three tables set out for the lavish dinner was Prime Minister John Major . |
| 18 | Yet there had never been any reserve in her , bearing towards him on that account . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't be provocative , Robyn , ’ he murmured , lifting her chin towards him with one light touch of his finger . |
| 20 | All these emotions vanished when Richard came bounding towards him with scarlet cheeks and shining eyes , looking happier than the detective had ever seen him . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Sometimes , he would catch glimpses of wonderful things through the trees : silver wolves slipping like fluid between the gnarled trunks , their eyes the blue of an early autumn sky ; hewkin maidens of astounding loveliness dancing in a spotlight of moonbeams , curling their slim green hands towards him in bird-like gestures ; ghost children with berry-red faces and tomb-black eyes , laughing down at him from high branches . |
| 23 | Meanwhile Lieutenant Denis O'Flaherty and Trooper Sherington made a determined effort to reach the warehouse ( 'F' ) with Peter Young , who saw three stick grenades flung towards him in quick succession ; the first two missed and the third did not go off . |
| 24 | As this dream-man called Duvall advanced towards him in slow motion , Jimmy 's dream-brain raced , providing answers with utter certainty . |
| 25 | I felt myself moving towards him like one cloud drifting into another . |
| 26 | A great urgency gripped Gabriel , who unlatched the gate and ran off round the barn to where the moor streamed towards him like downhill water . |
| 27 | Her thighs were well spread , her back arched , and her backside was thrust out towards him like some amorous baboon . |
| 28 | To his relief he found he was above the trees and looking down into a murkiness that was beginning to map itself below him into defined and recognizable shapes . |
| 29 | Robert took in the neatly combed hair , the frail shoulders , the exquisite cheekbones with the red blemish on one side , and the huge , sightless eyes that roamed the blackness below him like inverted searchlights , as if to soak up the shadows . |
| 30 | 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 . |