Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear heaven , Laura thought , trotting after him with her string bag and her blanket . |
| 2 | I heard my men going after him with their guns — and then everything went black . |
| 3 | Without another word he turned and strode towards the escalator , leaving Matchsticks to struggle after him with his heavy case . |
| 4 | Really she 's after him for his money . ’ |
| 5 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 6 | But , as she trailed after him into their own bedroom , leaning against the door while he quickly packed his case , she realised that she 'd already lost him . |
| 7 | The tradition was carried on after him by his son , Archibald Alexander Hodge ( 1823–86 ) , and Benjamin B. Warfield ( 1851 — 1921 ) . |
| 8 | Ruth had lost all sense of direction as soon as he had gripped her hand so fiercely ; she just teetered after him in her high-heeled sandals . |
| 9 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 10 | He was very frightened of the spirits and they ran after him in his dreams . |
| 11 | She sat opposite him in his office with the door firmly closed . |
| 12 | Breeding seems to be initiated by the female who approaches the male by swimming towards him with her dorsal and anal fins clamped to her body and her caudal fin swaying from side to side . |
| 13 | Cowslip , coming up near-by , turned towards him with his unnatural smile . |
| 14 | Pascoe got on to his knees like a man at prayer , and hauled Singer towards him by his hair , punching twice , hard , as he pulled the man in . |
| 15 | The solution was to let her initiate everything , to allow her to come towards him in her own time . |
| 16 | Slowly , as though pulled towards him against her will , Isabel obeyed . |
| 17 | The radiance burned from it as it fell ; and the master-bowman , somewhere below him with his men , bellowed : ‘ Loose ! ’ |
| 18 | Chances are though that by now your grandma will already be treasuring a TV Quick pull-out poster of him under her pillow . |
| 19 | " I really am fond of him despite his … despite everything . " |
| 20 | He attempted a takeover bid of the major fascist groups , demanding their subordination and acceptance of him as their new leader . |
| 21 | He also thought of him as his father . |
| 22 | She was dizzy , intoxicated , unable to think straight as he pushed her back against the pillows , his body covering hers , her senses swimming with the urgent pressure of him between her naked thighs . |
| 23 | Fonda was rocketed to stardom , and posters of him astride his bike were quickly outselling star portraits of Brando , Newman and McQueen . |
| 24 | Immediately , she was aware of him at her side , of his fingers , gentle , firm , pressing her wrist . |
| 25 | But she remained disturbed , acutely aware of him at her side and only grateful that he despised her too much to allow himself to be seen touching her in public . |
| 26 | All day I have been seeing pictures of him at his best ; jumbled up in no chronological sequence — Saturday evening tram rides and visits to the Hippodrome with late supper afterwards in Malvern days , earlier days of ‘ where do you want to go to ’ in the study … the ‘ Well , boys this is grand ’ at the beginning of the holiday … his little drop of whiskey : his fund of wheezes . |
| 27 | What would it be like to explore and learn every inch of him with her fingertips , to touch and taste him and fill her lungs with the delicious musky scent that was uniquely his ? |
| 28 | His eyes glaze over as he focuses on the photograph of him with his beloved — Illona Staller , better known as Cicciolina , the Italian porn star turned politician who recently made headlines by offering to let Saddam Hussein ‘ rape ’ her if he freed the hostages being held in the Middle East . |
| 29 | There is a fine monumental effigy of him with his first wife in the church in Charlton , where he was buried 25 July 1598 . |
| 30 | He was very angry , and he hit the chair in front of him with his hand . |