Example sentences of "[prep] he [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You 'll never make it , ’ roared Rocky and took off after him with surprising speed for one of his size and bulk .
2 Has to walk after him with little trowel and paper bag .
3 They were concerned to be caring and look after him at this time of tragedy , and he was just not really taking in what had happened .
4 He shot after him at high speed .
5 Ace followed her , prudently shutting the big sliding glass doors after him for more privacy .
6 His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas .
7 So we really we one of us to be here to look after him in that sense , one of us gets paid
8 They were first noticed by Poynting and the effect is named after him in this branch of materials science .
9 The teenage snakes tumble , somersault and skid down after him like over-zealous baby ducks in ardent pursuit of a mother figure .
10 Yet there had never been any reserve in her , bearing towards him on that account .
11 Meanwhile Lieutenant Denis O'Flaherty and Trooper Sherington made a determined effort to reach the warehouse ( 'F' ) with Peter Young , who saw three stick grenades flung towards him in quick succession ; the first two missed and the third did not go off .
12 As this dream-man called Duvall advanced towards him in slow motion , Jimmy 's dream-brain raced , providing answers with utter certainty .
13 I felt myself moving towards him like one cloud drifting into another .
14 A great urgency gripped Gabriel , who unlatched the gate and ran off round the barn to where the moor streamed towards him like downhill water .
15 He had brought with him reading that was expected of him during this vacation , works on sociology and on linguistics and some where these two studies converged , but these were not the sort of books one much wanted to read under the hot sun and the influence of wine .
16 Certainly the picture of him during this period is of a man haunted by guilt and remorse ; it seems that he felt he had no right to happiness , and the death of his wife had only served to convince him that he had done some irreparable harm to another human being , for which he must undergo a period of punishment .
17 The fact that voters think Mr Major has not campaigned impressively has apparently made little difference to their view of him as Prime Minister and party leader .
18 She 'd never thought of him as that sort of man .
19 It is he — another person , she told herself , I must think of him as another person .
20 And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator .
21 This rather cooled their high spirits , because Missenden 's failure to do what was required of him about some case of ecclesiastical preferment was criticized .
22 To this day , Hardy , himself having achieved the double of classical and popular success as an actor , speaks of him at that time with unaffected adulation .
23 Ronni felt proud of him at that moment .
24 We have another description of him at this date from a diarist who happened to meet him .
25 One thing I can say of him with total confidence is that I have never met a man less interested in money .
26 Here too he has been most thoroughly tested , and the fact that Padre Martini , the idol of the Italians , speaks of him with great admiration and has himself set him all the tests , has increased his reputation all over Italy .
27 He had to keep this manner , this pained narrative , so that any reader would feel that the account had been forced out of him with great reluctance , and that the sordid events he had yet to describe were softened by the compassion and generous charity of the writer .
28 His increasing tide of support from the populations of the Arab and wider Muslim world has puzzled Western observers , some of whom had actually believed that the Arabs might be only too glad to be rid of him with Western help .
29 No one could ever take that away from her , and she would always think of him with special affection .
30 When the subject of his father cropped up , which was not very often , Phil found that she could speak of him with true affection , keeping alive for the little boy his early memories of a loving father .
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