be at somebody’s heels

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She heard him running down the stairs, problems at his heels. Not asleep. Just having a think.

He watched the last of the brothers slip away still awed and silent through the cloister, and followed with a glance the swirl of Robert Bossu’s crimson skirts as he crossed the court with his two attendants at his heels.

Mr. Henry Hawkes, a farmer residing at Hailing, in Kent, was late one evening at Maidstone market. On returning at night, with his dog, who was usually at his heels, he again stopped at Aylesford, and as is too frequently the case upon such occasions, he drank immoderately, and left the place in a state of intoxication.

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