Example sentences of "him with its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like coffee , legend surrounds the beginning of tea drinking and it is also reputed to have kept awake an ancient priest throughout a long vigil , stimulating him with its caffeine . |
| 2 | The trunks in the clearing had formed an ever-tightening ring which threatened to overpower him ; to crush him with its living might . |
| 3 | The dark rock comforted him with its hardness . |
| 4 | But the swimming both pleased and excited him with its demands . |
| 5 | As Banderas struggles to come to terms with the choices being offered him — remaining a serious but relatively obscure actor in European films , or accepting the international stardom Hollywood dangles seductively before him with its accompanying riches and loss of privacy — the roles currently being offered seem eerily appropriate . |
| 6 | The painted figure of a Pre-Raphaelite angel carrying a single lily , its yellow hair crimped under the wide halo , looked back at him with its bland , uncurious gaze . |
| 7 | Two speechless simian Servitors attended him , one to ingest his waste and cleanse him , the other to nourish him with its own enriched blood and shift his cart from window to window — from which he gazed out , praying for an exploration vessel of his Chapter to pass this way . |
| 8 | Hofmeyr was certain that the mother had returned to look for her calf and associated him with its disappearance . |
| 9 | The Keeper of Secrets cut at him with its great claw . |
| 10 | He was warden of the Guild of Graduates of the University of Wales , chairman of the BBC 's Welsh consultative council , president of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion ( the society honoured him with its medal ) , president of the court and a fellow of the National Eisteddfod of Wales , president of the National Library of Wales , and an honorary fellow of Jesus College , Oxford . |
| 11 | The familiar waste-land of the empty auditorium engulfed him with its seedy , oppressive presence . |
| 12 | The snake looked at him with its two small cold eyes , and moved through the open mouth and went round and round the neck , and stopped . |
| 13 | He was losing himself in the grey surf of her eyes , his heart threatening to smother him with its frenzied pounding . |
| 14 | A figure approached him with its arms wrapped around its chest . |
| 15 | But I want to tell you ’ — the echo of the chock of a bat against a ball reached him with its moment 's delay , and a blackbird ran its first trill through the evening . |
| 16 | The rain bounced and splattered and visibly stung him with its force . |
| 17 | The moon came out , full and white , flooding him with its hard brightness . |