Example sentences of "[prep] he [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slapped a stone down , in the corner nearest him on the right . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Her legs felt absolutely leaden as she trudged after him towards the house . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then with fumbling fingers she extracted her soap and hurled the bag after him across the bathroom floor . |
| 7 | Yes , they have n't really looked after him in the field have they ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | , 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Alice ran after him like the wind . |
| 14 | Michael Harvey was assigned to look after him inside the house . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But Rosa motioned to him to sit , and sat herself down , opposite him at the table , expectant . |
| 17 | I sat opposite him at the Christmas do and he spent ages talking to me . |
| 18 | He sat behind the big desk , and Jill the secretary sat at her table opposite him across the room . |
| 19 | He could not see Dhani but calculated that he might by now be opposite him in the north transept . |
| 20 | Kopyion had sat opposite him in the hovercar , contemplating the momentous events unravelling on the planet . |
| 21 | In other words , I saw the town as being completely different towards him at the outset of the film , and then in snide little ways he would turn them against him because he carried his violence with him . |
| 22 | This is , however , a rare instance of Anderson displaying any interest in McKendrick and the change in his attitude towards him at the end of the play is confirmed in the figures for his turn-allocation . |
| 23 | She turned towards him on the pew and put her hands up and caught his collar . |
| 24 | A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away . |
| 25 | He seated himself comfortably in a chair opposite the bed , and hooked a footstool towards him with the toe of his shoe . |
| 26 | Blackberry did not answer and Hazel and Bigwig hopped towards him along the verge . |
| 27 | As relief spread to pure pleasure she waved and came towards him across the yard like a young girl . |
| 28 | All at once Zen saw a vigorous bulky figure in a dark grey overcoat with a black arm-band walking towards him across the piazza . |
| 29 | One of them came to see me , and as I walked towards him across the table , he put on his glasses . |
| 30 | She laid down her cup and leaned towards him across the table . |