Example sentences of "[verb] follow [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Constanza tried to follow her out of the hotel — as she was very very upset , my grandmother — but Constanza was too late .
2 After two minutes I believe the butcher would have followed her out of the shop had she beckoned him .
3 She heard the door close behind her , but not before the sound of laughter had followed her down towards the lift .
4 He had followed her back to the car .
5 One of the monstrous hounds had followed her out of the main house and now pressed close to her legs .
6 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 .
7 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 .
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