Example sentences of "[prep] him in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , they have n't really looked after him in the field have they ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | , 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He could not see Dhani but calculated that he might by now be opposite him in the north transept . |
| 7 | Kopyion had sat opposite him in the hovercar , contemplating the momentous events unravelling on the planet . |
| 8 | He stopped by the gate and waited as she limped towards him in the darkness . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Below him in the valley , the river slid by greening banks , the infinity of space mirrored on its smooth surface . |
| 12 | There was once in the olden days a giant who lived on Penhill who had all below him in the dale in his thrall . |
| 13 | The sound of the waking ducks was below him in the scrub and trees . |
| 14 | Sitting below him in the well of No 3 Court , Private Eye 's editor Ian Hislop nodded his head vigorously in agreement . |
| 15 | To the left of him in the mirror he could see the remains of last night 's meal . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She said , you silly little git , he said it 's an actor taking the part of him in the film ! |
| 21 | Gabriel lost sight of him in the press . |
| 22 | He seizes him and disposes of him in the river like the previous three bodies , and finally gets his pay , the wife being all the more glad for having got rid of her repugnant husband . |
| 23 | Anyway he lived in the old hut after the railway was taken up , we did n't see much of him in the winter but when the spring came round he would appear again . |
| 24 | he and he were like this in the water I had to go down the bank I grabbed hold of him in the middle of his back , just turfed him out . |
| 25 | I 'd caught sight of him in the distance from time to time all afternoon , but now when I wanted him his red hair was n't anywhere around . |
| 26 | About the year 944/1537–8 , the two kazaskers , Ebussu'ud Efendi and Civizade , the latter a teacher of Molla Bostan 's , spoke well of him in the presence of Sultan Suleyman ; and as a result of their intercession , and of the sultan 's interest in a monograph that Molla Bostan had recently written , it was decreed that he should be appointed to a medrese . |
| 27 | In meditation I see that my fellow man is my friend and I try to think of him in the way Thoreau thought when he said , ‘ I knock on the earth for my friend . ’ |
| 28 | The speaker was short and stocky and that was all that could be said of him in the way of description . |
| 29 | And on the subject of conspiracies , what future does Swedish winger Anders Limpar have at Highbury if a 20-year-old from up the Piccadilly Line at Wood Green is now ahead of him in the pecking order ? |
| 30 | ‘ Randy 's got a slower pony in this chukka , who wo n't like Dopey taking a piece of him in the line-out one bit . ’ |