Example sentences of "him with a " in BNC.
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1 | A RECENT photograph of Kingsley Amis shows him with a cat , which is standing beside his typewriter . |
2 | As Brown moves round the larders , the Psion Organiser presents him with a series of ingredient names , in a preset order . |
3 | ’ Bramble began , but she silenced him with a glare from the astonishing blue eyes . |
4 | ’ Sergeant Bramble made as if to speak , but the foreign person silenced him with a glance that would have iced coffee . |
5 | Saying which he passed jauntily from their ken , shutting the door behind him with a flourish . |
6 | The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before . |
7 | The whole campaign dragged on him with a dead weight at this moment . |
8 | Next to the circumcision ceremony , this is the most important event in a young Jewish boy 's life , and invests him with a measure of maturity as well as a commensurate sense of responsibility . |
9 | The British still tend to treat him with a faintly hostile embarrassment : as well they might , since for the past four years , his principal message has been condemnation of their duplicity in , as he sees it , backing away from promises to introduce democratic government by 1997 . |
10 | Jos Lansink 's first visit to The Horse of the Year Show could reward him with a Jaguar car , if he can maintain the form shown on the last three days . |
11 | The Court of Appeal decision left him with a two-year term to complete . |
12 | For Wesker , the fortunes of Shylock have been all too typical of a career plagued by bad luck which has left him with a sizeable canon of rarely performed work . |
13 | He said the two men attacked him with a tyre lever , hammer and a craft knife . |
14 | After his death , the Maori honoured him with a lying-in-state at Pipitea Marae , near Wellington Cathedral , and a karanga ( lament ) by two kuia ( older women ) who remained with the casket throughout the ceremonies . |
15 | At first light I gave Taff a shake and presented him with a mug of tea . |
16 | Literally , Vitelli will kill her father and replace him with a son born of her . |
17 | One of the men who most attracts him , Mubarak , is also one whose sexuality is most self-conscious , withdrawn , and complicated ; Mubarak 's masculinity is itself strung out across difference : he is a Sudanese African in Asia , and fighting for a people whom he does not understand and who regard him with a racist indifference ( pp. 194 — 5 ) ; he speaks perfect French , but with a Parisian urban working-class accent . |
18 | He wanted to marry her , but she laughed at him too , and said she had already made her choices and they did not include giving up her God and replacing him with a somewhat vulgar and certainly brutal man . |
19 | His early days underground working alongside miners on the coal-face have imbued him with a special rapport with the thousands of miners he now oversees as chairman of British Coal . |
20 | As a young man he had been pursued by many women ; that he secretly despised them did not lessen his attractiveness but in later years his large family and increasing years had hung about him with a weight as great as any deformity : but he would never risk exposing himself as Rose had . |
21 | Captain Richard Moore 's day begins as the ring of the telephone wakes him with a start from a deep sleep . |
22 | In 1980 , the owner approached a local architect , John Wharton , to provide him with a design that could be easily executed by direct labour and it was immediately apparent that exploitation of the high volume of the main east-west wing of the building would be the best way of obtaining the maximum accommodation . |
23 | She honestly believed that she was making life easier for Jack , by providing him with a background of home , where not only were meals provided and clothes mended , but his time was also jealously guarded . |
24 | As he knelt at his mother 's feet , the sovereign invested her son with the symbols of office , ‘ by girding him with a Sword … by putting a Coronet on his head … and a Gold Ring on his finger … and also by delivering a Gold Rod into his hand , that he may preside there and may direct and defend those parts to hold to him and his heirs … for ever ’ . |
25 | She drew in deeply and exhaled through her nose , then snapped the cigarette briskly from her mouth and pointed it at him with a flourish . |
26 | Sister Cooney looked at him with a polite , questioning smile and waited for him to continue or change the subject , as he thought fit . |
27 | I could have belted him with a bicycle chain . |
28 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
29 | Wherever he walked , spring came at him with a rush , overwhelming him with sensation . |
30 | He held it to his nose and smelled its furry warmth , then spun it away from him with a twinge of regret at having torn it so wantonly . |