Example sentences of "follow [pers pn] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip followed them up the open staircase and into the woman 's bedroom . |
| 2 | Reluctantly I put down my book and followed them down the garden . |
| 3 | By the time we reached Amsterdam the man was in a frenzy of preparedness and anxiety , and followed me down the platform with his rifle in my back . |
| 4 | Massingham followed him up the narrow uncarpeted stairs . |
| 5 | She followed him up the large curved staircase and decided that even if this was for one night only , she would be happy . |
| 6 | She followed him up the room , repeating her sympathy and when that did not hold his attention , she began to apologize for her lateness in coming to speak to him about the tragedy . |
| 7 | Her mind in a whirl , her body in an equally unstable condition , Robbie followed him up the hillside . |
| 8 | The German turned round obediently and the orderly followed him down the wire . |
| 9 | Chen returned the man 's bow , then followed him down the hallway to another door . |
| 10 | The headlights of another car swung across the central reservation and followed him down the Friedrich Engels Strasse . |
| 11 | ‘ Come round the side , ’ he said , and I followed him down the tarmac path which was about a yard wide , between the school building and a six-foot wooden fence which isolated the first house in the terrace . |
| 12 | But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion . |
| 13 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
| 14 | He followed her down the hall to the kitchen at the back of the house . |
| 15 | The sound of her mother singing followed her down the hall : |
| 16 | One of them stepped forward , bouncing frantically to the music , and the others followed her down the catwalk . |
| 17 | He began paddling at the age of 10 , got his first boat 3 years later , spent a week with PGL and followed it up the next year with a course at Raven 's Ait . |
| 18 | Then it was gone ; and Bigwig 's fur was blowing in the whack of wind that followed it down the hedges . |
| 19 | After I 'd persuaded Hawkbit here to join us , I was just starting to talk to a few more , when I found that Toadflax fellow had followed me down the run . |
| 20 | He turned to the two men who had followed him up the gangway . |
| 21 | The idea of the Sudan had followed us up the Nile like a rumour . |
| 22 | I follow him down the aisle and throw random packages into the basket . |
| 23 | Hazel turned towards it and the rest began to follow him up the slope in ones and twos . |
| 24 | There were plenty of other boys to follow him down the good physician 's route to Fitzwilliam Square . |
| 25 | The only reference point to give us a sense of our height was the tiny boat on the beach beneath us , with the two fishermen , who had not only declined to follow us up the crater , but also expressed an urgent desire to avoid even setting foot on shore . |