Example sentences of "[vb past] followed him " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd followed him into the Rockingham public house by the Elephant and Castle . |
| 2 | They 'd followed him for years when he was politically active . |
| 3 | She had followed him in a second taxi to London Airport , taking her case with her . |
| 4 | Exiled for the second time and without the support of many of the Castilian knights who had followed him before , Rodrigo once again displayed his qualities of a great commander . |
| 5 | Uncle Fred left four sons , two of whom had followed him into the Marines and a widow , Aunt May , who suffered from what was then referred to as shaking palsy . |
| 6 | Michael Green draws attention to the fact that the Gospels represent an entirely new literary form , which was neither history , nor biography , but a highly selective weaving together of fragments using preaching and teaching ‘ arranged in order to show what sort of person Jesus was , to give the evidence on which the disciples had followed him and had adjudged him the Messiah and Son of God , and by the strongest possible implication , challenge the readers to make the same act of faith in Christ as they themselves had done ’ ( Green 1970:229 , 230 ) . |
| 7 | ( Luke : Luke records that all his friends stood at a distance , including the women who had followed him from Galilee ( Luke 8:3 ) . ) |
| 8 | A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them . |
| 9 | He turned to the two men who had followed him up the gangway . |
| 10 | His father had followed him from room to room , half a dozen strides behind him all through that late afternoon . |
| 11 | Frankie Albright was nineteen and just young enough to have missed the war ; he had tried to sign up when he was sixteen , only to be informed upon by his mother , who had followed him down to the recruiting office . |
| 12 | The police car that had followed him to the Windorah was still parked across the road . |
| 13 | Vanessa and Hazel had followed him . |
| 14 | He turned to introduce a dark-skinned and compact officer who had followed him . |
| 15 | Two men had followed him up the stairs . |
| 16 | One night , waiting in her car outside a pub to which she had followed him , she suddenly found herself crying for the first time . |
| 17 | ‘ This is pure fabrication , ’ Legion protested as the Doctor looked across at one of the troopers , the one in the mirrored visor who had followed him in . |
| 18 | Kate had followed him into a big sitting-room , plain , almost spartan in its simplicity . |
| 19 | And because he thought she had followed him for just that purpose ? |
| 20 | Did he still think she had followed him ? she wondered . |
| 21 | And if he continued to think she had followed him — well , what did it matter ? |
| 22 | A woman who loved him … a woman who had followed him … long hair and face coloured with white clay . |
| 23 | She had followed him because of his prowess and became his queen . |
| 24 | About half an hour later , according to the eunuch , Prince Fahid had followed him , accompanied , possibly reluctantly , by two of the girls . |
| 25 | Cloud was advancing steadily again over the moon 's face , and its shadow rolled across the mitred stones of the abbots , and covered the dark inward movement of the men who had followed him up from the water . |