Example sentences of "[prep] him [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went after him to ask him what his problem was — and we squared up to each other like something out of High Noon . |
| 2 | I should have known though , should n't I ? — After him nicking them chocolate flakes , them crisps . |
| 3 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 4 | Daphne Rye , the top casting director , looked after him following his demob and in 1948 ushered him into the West End in a literary play — from a book by Elizabeth Bowen — Castle Anna , which Daphne herself directed . |
| 5 | ‘ When I managed to get upright I saw him cocking the gun again , thought he was going to shoot me again and moved towards him to defend myself . ’ |
| 6 | She crawled along to it , and a moment later they were face to face through a large chink , Tristram grinning , his teeth white and his face sun-darkened , and the sight of him made her feel safe and loved again , as if she had arrived home . |
| 7 | The touch , the feel , the heat of him made her want to laugh and cry . |
| 8 | Just the sight of him made her go weak , ache , and the thought of never seeing him again , never being able to touch him , was a twisting pain in her heart . |
| 9 | The sight of him made her catch her breath . |
| 10 | The Doctor stood in front of him waving his umbrella . |
| 11 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 12 | In April 1816 , musing after John Brownrigg 's death , he says he might have thought differently of him had he been born in Ambleside , ‘ the moral code of the people here not being like that of many other places . ’ |
| 13 | I could n't stand the thought of him seeing anyone else and so I did the only thing I could think of : I decided to spy on him . |
| 14 | Before he had reached halfway the floor in front of him fell him . |
| 15 | Before we went down to the kitchen Elinor patted all the Napoleana into place , violets and Redouté roses ; a picture of him riding his horse , Marengo , and that one of him feeling for his wallet ; matchstick models made by French prisoners of war and a tricolour flying at half-mast . |
| 16 | The weather forecast on Sunday was for rain , and she thought of him riding his bike back down the motorway in poor conditions and had to revive her anger to stop from worrying herself sick over him . |
| 17 | She had been just past Luke when he had caught at her , and now his arms came round her from behind , drawing her back against him , and the response she dreaded was already weakening her as the warmth of him transmitted itself to her . |
| 18 | She was aware of him settling himself on the floor in the corner by the bench , then stiffened when he picked up one of her finished pieces . |
| 19 | But surely , with talk in the letter which Milada Pankracova had sent on his instruction of him honouring his promise , see her he would — or her sister . |
| 20 | Barenboim has identified the First Symphony of the 54-year-old Corigliano as a work of great courage , and it was equally brave of him to take it on tour . |
| 21 | It made him feel better when he heard Smallfry mention the book , the special album in which they kept all the photographs of him wearing his best clothes and doing nice things . |
| 22 | I understand that has not been invited to speak to the Committee yet but perhaps you might consider this at the time of him producing his annual report next April . |
| 23 | My brother , sister and I used to scorn Pa 's " stop-watch slavery " as we called it and drew sketches of him whipping his work people to faster and faster production until they dropped with exhaustion . |
| 24 | Because he could n't for the life of him imagine what he personally could have done to her . |
| 25 | All we had to do was to pay the expense of the helicopter that brought him in because at that time he was appearing at the Prince of Wales and it was a matter of him fitting his time in with his performances , you see ? |
| 26 | He took her in his arms , holding her close in silence , the sheer size and warmth of him calming her very quickly . |
| 27 | You are always telling me tales of him rebuking you . |
| 28 | Although when flying Mr Tholen does n't sport one of his famous carnations , artist Alfie Alderson used a little licence when he completed a watercolour of him flying his plane wearing a red carnation . |
| 29 | There 's no reason you should be shocked at the thought of him taking me out . |
| 30 | And it would be a case of him taking her sightseeing if he went with her would n't it ? |