Example sentences of "[prep] him in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doyle looked after him in a kind of angry bewilderment . |
| 2 | Yes , they have n't really looked after him in the field have they ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | , 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He turned and walked away , leaving her standing by the open door of her bedroom , staring after him in an agony of confusion . |
| 8 | He could not see Dhani but calculated that he might by now be opposite him in the north transept . |
| 9 | Kopyion had sat opposite him in the hovercar , contemplating the momentous events unravelling on the planet . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Half way down the companion he stopped , and it was as though the whole length of the hold moved towards him in a body . |
| 12 | Izzie threw out her hands towards him in an expression of exasperation . |
| 13 | He stopped by the gate and waited as she limped towards him in the darkness . |
| 14 | That was when he saw the thin figure jogging towards him in the gloom , and heard the roar of engines come up fast behind him . |
| 15 | The Doctor had reached the summit of yet another bleak ridge , and turned to make this announcement to Francis and the Counsellors , who were toiling upwards towards him in the face of a wind full of dust and hailstones . |
| 16 | Below him in the valley , the river slid by greening banks , the infinity of space mirrored on its smooth surface . |
| 17 | There was once in the olden days a giant who lived on Penhill who had all below him in the dale in his thrall . |
| 18 | The sound of the waking ducks was below him in the scrub and trees . |
| 19 | Sitting below him in the well of No 3 Court , Private Eye 's editor Ian Hislop nodded his head vigorously in agreement . |
| 20 | She halted , left a trifle breathless as usual by the sight of him in a dress suit . |
| 21 | As Mr Hallam tried to get up , a member of the opposing team grabbed hold of him in a kind of headlock and he saw Newton kick Mr Hallam in the jaw . |
| 22 | The sight of him in a dinner suit had her senses rioting . |
| 23 | Holding his young son in front of him in a sort of cruel parody of his wedding procession , he was humiliatingly marched publicly down the full length of the new Chandni Chowk . |
| 24 | Silver , as quick as a monkey , was on top of him in a moment . |
| 25 | To the left of him in the mirror he could see the remains of last night 's meal . |
| 26 | Socially reclusive , emotionally recessive — it might be asked whether Larkin had any life at all ; the student radicals at Hull who daubed denunciations of him in the university lavatories presumably thought that he should get one . ’ |
| 27 | A surgeon who fails to take action to help the recovery of a patient prostrate in front of him in the operating theatre is hindering his recovery . |
| 28 | He had thought he had not cared what became of him in the battle and he had thought that , when it was over , he would return to the Wolfwood and that the creatures amongst whom he had lived would return , also . |
| 29 | We do n't know exactly where but it must have been close , as he dragged himself home to his favourite spot on the lawn where his life ebbed out of him in the quiet of the night . |
| 30 | She said , you silly little git , he said it 's an actor taking the part of him in the film ! |