Example sentences of "[prep] he [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slapped a stone down , in the corner nearest him on the right . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Curtis looked after him with an understanding grin ; the two men had a lot in common . |
| 5 | ‘ I was assigned to look after him for a while , ’ Harvey answered . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Dana stared after him for a moment , then turned a malevolent glare on Claudia . |
| 9 | Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections . |
| 10 | Endill did not know what he meant by this and ran after him for an explanation . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , thank you ! ’ she said , but her smile withered at the sight of his expression and she trailed after him towards the car park without a word or a glance at the others . |
| 12 | Her legs felt absolutely leaden as she trudged after him towards the house . |
| 13 | She took his hand and , with a sense of stepping from the present into the past , from the known into what had become utterly strange , scrambled up and ran after him into the night . |
| 14 | Then with fumbling fingers she extracted her soap and hurled the bag after him across the bathroom floor . |
| 15 | Doyle looked after him in a kind of angry bewilderment . |
| 16 | Yes , they have n't really looked after him in the field have they ? |
| 17 | The decision to place Gareth in the care of his grandparents , who have looked after him in the past while his mother was working , was taken by Strathclyde Regional Council 's social work department . |
| 18 | , but Benguiat took it as like a threat to and went after him in the lobby of hall and they had to be prised apart . |
| 19 | Already suffering from physical ailment , and surrounded by some marvellous women who took it in turns to look after him in the evening of his life , he was a fount of ideas and vision . |
| 20 | His speed and Lachlan 's bull charge through the fight , drawing their own men after him in the vacuum of his passage , ran him and them down into the water as well . |
| 21 | He turned and walked away , leaving her standing by the open door of her bedroom , staring after him in an agony of confusion . |
| 22 | His economic measures bore fruit , but the constitution was overturned by Peisistratos , who made himself tyrant early in the second quarter and held power ( with interruptions ) and his sons after him till the expulsion of Hippias in 510 . |
| 23 | Alice ran after him like the wind . |
| 24 | Michael Harvey was assigned to look after him inside the house . |
| 25 | She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest . |
| 26 | But Rosa motioned to him to sit , and sat herself down , opposite him at the table , expectant . |
| 27 | I sat opposite him at the Christmas do and he spent ages talking to me . |
| 28 | He sat behind the big desk , and Jill the secretary sat at her table opposite him across the room . |
| 29 | He could not see Dhani but calculated that he might by now be opposite him in the north transept . |
| 30 | Kopyion had sat opposite him in the hovercar , contemplating the momentous events unravelling on the planet . |