Example sentences of "him with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acclaiming him as one of the chief progenitors , the critics come not to bury but to praise him with faint damns . |
| 2 | Hamilton greeted him with emotional thanks and immediately surrendered our papers : our little Nansen passport , our Portuguese visa , even the ticket coupon with which we had been issued at the harbour of Salerno . |
| 3 | She treated him as a malnourished curiosity , swooping down on him with tender cluckings , and seductive titbits — a crab claw , a lychee , a chocolate truffle — asking him to describe God , or Heaven , or sin , treating him as a confessional , trying to dress him up as a cardinal , showing him off to her friends . |
| 4 | He was slightly different from the others , Isabel saw , watching him with apprehensive eyes . |
| 5 | ‘ Angus ’ — he dropped the timber he was lifting , letting it clank off the others , and turned to look at him with widened eyes and squared mouth , like the face of someone taking a great strain . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh … oh , so was mine , ’ she told him with hasty fervour . |
| 7 | He pushed out his shoulders , and was halfway through when the creature turned the corner , coming upon him with terrifying speed . |
| 8 | She swallowed hard and waited for the ringing in her head to clear and for the room to steady once more , then , summoning all of her courage , she looked at him with icy contempt . |
| 9 | ‘ Thank you so much for the advice , ’ she told him with icy calm , ‘ but I can assure you that it was n't necessary . ’ |
| 10 | She glared at him with icy indignation . |
| 11 | ‘ I am not walking to any hut with you , ’ she assured him with icy defiance . |
| 12 | Cameron do n't poke him with long poles . |
| 13 | Despite the principle of ‘ unity of command ’ , the recommendations submitted by the political officer on fitness and promotion through the Directorate 's confidential channels provide him with real prerogatives over the ‘ real ’ officers who surround him . |
| 14 | The sheriff could be called upon to assist him with armed men when he raised the hue , and to arrest men of whose names the warden informed him . |
| 15 | When he had got his balance back , a woman in a dowdy black dress was looking at him with tired amusement . |
| 16 | ‘ Where a man , having the animus furandi ( see ante , para. 1469 ) , obtains possession of goods by frightening the owner , as by threatening him with temporary imprisonment unless he delivers up his goods , and the owner does deliver them under the influence of the fear inspired by his threat , this is considered such a taking ( although there is a delivery in fact ) as to constitute larceny : Reg. v. Lovell ( 1881 ) 8 Q.B.D. 185 . |
| 17 | She viewed him with deep suspicion , all too conscious of the threat underlying his words . |
| 18 | Bitterly aware of a deep tide of crimson flooding over her face and body , she could only glare back at him with deep loathing . |
| 19 | His parents were keen on the work ethic and equipped him with impeccable manners . |
| 20 | Local officers did n't immediately associate him with violent crime . |
| 21 | Were they strange , silent figures , festooned with Christmas baubles , tracking him with measured , ghostly tread ; timeless , faceless , without mercy ? |
| 22 | The Shah now showed himself incapable of decisive action , Dispatches form Both the British and the American embassies at the time commented on him with patronizing contempt . |
| 23 | ‘ Hello , ’ said the boy , looking at him with hollow eyes . |
| 24 | She could not provide him with small talk , or prod him to abandon his silences . |
| 25 | He had to keep this manner , this pained narrative , so that any reader would feel that the account had been forced out of him with great reluctance , and that the sordid events he had yet to describe were softened by the compassion and generous charity of the writer . |
| 26 | His sanctimoniousness and hypocrisy make some people around here regard him with great distaste . |
| 27 | Here too he has been most thoroughly tested , and the fact that Padre Martini , the idol of the Italians , speaks of him with great admiration and has himself set him all the tests , has increased his reputation all over Italy . |
| 28 | At a time when professional astronomers keep the sky under closer scrutiny than ever before , Alcock 's world-beating achievements rank him with great observers of the past , such as the famous French comet hunter Charles Messier . |
| 29 | Told him with great enthusiasm . |
| 30 | The two women were looking at him with great attention but it was the mother who spoke first . |