Example sentences of "[noun prp] followed [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Grimma followed him across the chilly floor as more nomes filed into the shed and huddled apprehensively along the walls .
2 David followed her up the short path between the borders of spring flowers .
3 Corbett followed him across the yard as the English envoy made his way carefully through the throng and up a flight of steep stairs into the main keep of the castle .
4 Molly followed him into the room , struck a match and lit the oil lamp .
5 Meredith followed him down the lane .
6 When Ruth followed her into the kitchen , she looked around ; like the rest of the house , it was clean but very sparsely furnished .
7 Ruth followed her into the hallway and was immediately aware of disorder ; open packing-cases and an assortment of clothes and furniture piled up in every inch of space .
8 Doone followed us into the kitchen , removed a grey tweed overcoat and sat by the table in his much-lived-in grey suit .
9 Tugging her hat straight , Ellie followed them into the hotel .
10 When he 'd moored the boat and helped her out Michele followed her through the rear lobby and into the foyer .
11 ‘ Come along , my dear , ’ Miss Honey called back , and Matilda followed her up the path .
12 With a heavy heart , Robert followed her towards the smooth , mysterious features of the house , whose windows , on this side , he could now see , were blacked out from the inside .
13 Endill followed her to the sick bay .
14 Julia followed her to the private bed-sitting room , where her child was happily playing in his cot .
15 Faisal followed him to the railings .
16 Sarah followed him up the narrow stairs with her bag , her eyes on his thin , dirty bare legs and ragged trousers .
17 When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats .
18 Patrick followed her into the front room , his eyes taking in her home .
19 Now , fanning his face with his hat , Senator Crowninshield followed me into the shade of Masquerade 's hull and stared up at her scarred flank .
20 Lindsey followed him to the desk .
21 Adam followed them from the security of the trees , watched the senior officer talking as the others listened and followed him .
22 Leon Kennedy followed her into the hall .
23 Willie followed him across the passage to Tom 's bedroom .
24 He turned abruptly away and Willie followed him up the lane and back on to the main street .
25 Philip followed her into the waiting-room .
26 A year later , Margarete followed him into the darkness of Stalin 's police underworld , but after a time in a Siberian camp had the honour of forming part of a present from Stalin to Hitler , being one of several hundred German political prisoners ‘ of interest ’ handed over to the Gestapo near Brest-Litovsk in 1940 after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact .
27 Jed followed him into the kitchen .
28 Jill followed her to the ward where Mr Deakin was sitting in a chair beside the bed .
29 She straightened up , thick lashes veiling her expression as Jill followed her into the room .
30 Emily followed her across the yard into the surprisingly sunny warmth of the kitchen .
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