Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gave up and chased after him through the thin trees . |
| 2 | Confused , she went after him down the winding stairs into the kitchen and let him organise hot drinks . |
| 3 | Basha looked after him in the small village . |
| 4 | Thiercelin began to nudge through the crowd of idlers around the stage door , leaving his friend gazing stoically after him in the late evening rain . |
| 5 | It was a skipper from here called Sopite ( he has his street named after him in the old town ) , who made one of the great technological advances in whaling , when he found a way to render the blubber down on board the whaler instead of having to sail all the way back home with it . |
| 6 | The ambulance came , and she ended up looking after him in the intensive care unit . |
| 7 | Father Poole pointed to the chair opposite him on the other side of the fireplace . |
| 8 | Cup in hand , she was about to sit opposite him at the small kitchen table , but the unwelcoming look in his deep blue eyes changed her mind , and she wandered aimlessly through to the living-room . |
| 9 | ‘ WHIT 'S yer name hen ? ’ the drunk and dishevelled man on the train asked the woman opposite him for the fourth time in a very loud voice . |
| 10 | Following him out of the office and down into the street , sitting beside him in the cab which took them to Covent Garden , sitting opposite him in the warm restaurant full of good smells , candlelight , fresh flowers , her predominant feeling was one of surprise . |
| 11 | She crossed the room and sat opposite him in the ratty old armchair . |
| 12 | I walked towards him on the stony track |
| 13 | Things , however , came to a head one day when a veterinary surgeon on his rounds , in a regulation Volvo estate , was alarmed to see Noddy tearing towards him on the wrong side of the road , in hot pursuit of a Transit van . |
| 14 | Cardiff saw Rohmer , Duvall and Gilbert recoil towards him as the hideous black-glistening thing thrashed amidst the collapsing detritus of its entry . |
| 15 | He worked for Michael but was n't as subservient towards him as the other boys . |
| 16 | His glance had never left her as she 'd tapped towards him across the mirror-like floor , dark eyes sweeping her from head to toe to take in her black high-heeled shoes , black stockings and the stark simplicity of the black wool dress skimming her knees , with a sardonic half-smile . |
| 17 | He turned , watching the priest coming towards him through the falling snow . |
| 18 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 19 | Hurtling towards him in the swirling fog was a huge lorry powerless to stop on the icy carriageway . |
| 20 | Tina walked towards him in the rain-washed playground while Jack looked warily round for her brother . |
| 21 | Relax , ’ he said , drawing her back towards him in the cramped confines of the passage . |
| 22 | His hand captured her face and turned her towards him in the old domineering manner but his eyes were not at all hard . |
| 23 | He was in a dream , aware of the sharp , early air and the smell of damp earth , seeing the vast pearly spread of the estuary far away below him beyond the fading gold necklaces of the street-lights , and yet altogether apart from his everyday world . |
| 24 | The 29 year old world number 14 was convincingly beaten 6:2,6:4 by Sweden 's Jona Spenson ranked 30 places below him in the second round of the $1 million event . |
| 25 | He was about to step across to the darkness of the recess and Lily 's room when he heard footsteps and the sound of voices below him in the tiled entrance hall . |
| 26 | The origin of ITV can be explained in many ways : as a classic case ( perhaps the first , post-war ) of high pressure political lobbying ; as Churchill 's revenge on the BBC for its disdainful treatment of him during the 1926 General Strike and in his wilderness years in the 1930s , when he was largely kept off the air ; or as part of the Conservative move to ‘ set the people free ’ from the bureaucracy and greyness allegedly intrinsic to Labour planning and the construction of the welfare state ( sweets , be it remembered , did not finally come off ration until 1953 ) . |
| 27 | How curious that she could now think of him without the tiniest pang ; it was as if the shadow of Max had been totally eclipsed by the substance of Luke — with all its ramifications . |
| 28 | She went ahead of him up the narrow stairs , which twisted round . |
| 29 | He openly talked of him as the probable successor to the see of Canterbury . |
| 30 | ‘ I think of him as the big brother I never had . ’ |