Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been his housekeeper since he had first moved into the rectory with Adelaide , and she looked after him with a devotion bordering on obsession . |
| 2 | Because if he treated her as her father had treated Odette , she knew she would not bear it so patiently , would not bless him on the day he finally left her , as Odette had done , but would go after him with a knife to hunt him down . |
| 3 | Curtis looked after him with an understanding grin ; the two men had a lot in common . |
| 4 | The one thing Phil is still learning is how to cope when batsmen get after him on a good pitch . |
| 5 | Harold acceded at once and I trotted dutifully after him to a small anteroom adjoining the Cabinet room . |
| 6 | We stood and stared after him for a few seconds , then one of the mortar team behind me remarked . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I was assigned to look after him for a while , ’ Harvey answered . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Dora glared after him for a few seconds before turning away and striding across the garden towards the orchard . |
| 12 | I looked after him for a few days before he died . ’ |
| 13 | Dana stared after him for a moment , then turned a malevolent glare on Claudia . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | been round there once or twice after him for a different thing . |
| 16 | Endill did not know what he meant by this and ran after him for an explanation . |
| 17 | Freelance cameraman Andy Styczynski , 32 , spotted the elusive bachelor at the wheel of a white Rover Montego — and chased after him in a VW Golf GTi . |
| 18 | Doyle looked after him in a kind of angry bewilderment . |
| 19 | He turned and walked away , leaving her standing by the open door of her bedroom , staring after him in an agony of confusion . |
| 20 | She 'd had all of four or five hours , before she 'd come rushing after him like a lovelorn schoolgirl … |
| 21 | When Auntie Jean slammed Uncle Ted 's tea on the table at the end of each day — a meat pie and chips , or a nice bit of rump steak and tartar sauce ( he had n't the nerve yet to go vegetarian ) — she sat opposite him with a stiff drink and demanded facts about Eva and Dad . |
| 22 | Not , however , when Charlotte sat opposite him in an eerily empty airport cafe and described her experiences in the United States while gazing at him with an expression implying what he most wanted to believe : that she trusted him unreservedly . |
| 23 | As Yanto hurriedly lay his coat out on the grass Sheila turned towards him with a start . |
| 24 | The animal seemed to understand Sir John 's words for it lunged towards him with a strangled growl ; its top lip curled , showing teeth as sharp as a row of daggers . |
| 25 | Rooks streamed up towards him from a small area of woodland . |
| 26 | Teal saw torch beams bobbing towards him from a side corridor and grabbed Bernice 's arm . |
| 27 | Such a lightning-spattered ending is found , for example , in Passionate Summer ( 1958 ) , where for most of the film the schoolteacher on a Caribbean Island has been keeping at bay the emotions directed towards him by a troubled pupil , the headmaster 's wife and an air hostess . |
| 28 | The reaper cut the corn by bending over and gasping a bunch of ears in his left hand , as Caleb Howe did on his allotment , inserting the sickle and drawing it towards him in a sawing action . |
| 29 | Half way down the companion he stopped , and it was as though the whole length of the hold moved towards him in a body . |
| 30 | Izzie threw out her hands towards him in an expression of exasperation . |