Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [pron] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He escorted me to his lodgings , where he treated me with every kindness , and dried my clothes whilst I managed a few hours sleep . ’ |
| 2 | Six years on , the family moved to Ugthorpe Lodge on the Whitby moors , a hotel with caravan site and smallholding where Mr Chance also had stables and where he involved himself with the Goathland Pony Club . |
| 3 | He built his dragons a garden , the most beautiful garden in the world , and although he surrounded it with an iron wall which he believed they would not cross , he made the wall beautiful for them , lavish with filigree work and sweet with hanging plants . |
| 4 | Mr Sanchez recalls that on one occasion , Mr Keith Richards , a musician once fond of exotic medication , was so vexed by his hound Caesar 's nocturnal barking that he administered him with a soporific known colloquially as a ‘ mandie ’ . |
| 5 | Chelmsford Crown Court heard that he blasted her with a sawn-off shotgun in the street in front of their two young children . |
| 6 | The fact that he was an outstanding , if not completely graceful athlete , that he played anything with a racquet commendably well — I remember battling him at tennis in the oppressive heat of Guaruja to an 8–8 deadlock before we both gave up to avoid heat prostration — that he is a better than average golfer and could just as well have played football or cricket and enjoyed all sports , made him less exclusively obsessive about racing . |
| 7 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 8 | It was in 1978 that he overreached himself with a little plan to sell illicit diamonds bought by his askaris from a diamond dealer in Lesotho . |
| 9 | He was formidable , laconic , self-disciplined , earnest but not humourless , and it was said of him that he did everything with a kind of good-natured fury . |
| 10 | No sooner had she begun manufacturing a few defences than he demolished them with a flick of his finger . |
| 11 | The intense processing involved obviously exhausted too much of Gav 's thinly-stretch grey matter to allow speech in the near future , so he contented himself with a grunt and submerged again . |
| 12 | The human ape laid one skinny hand on my arm and hissed in my ear : ‘ So he sent you with a message , eh ? ’ |
| 13 | Something sprang to the floor and he mashed it with a large flying-boot . |
| 14 | It roused her violently by its unexpectedness , and she made no protest when his arms went round her and he kissed her with a force and a recklessness that she met with equal need . |
| 15 | Fortunately , the landlord had n't seen our arrival and he served us with a smile and an offer of menus . |
| 16 | He was delivered of an ultimatum and he accepted it with a smile and good grace , although he went away cursing the interference and audacity of Fred 's young wife . |
| 17 | Albert his name was , and he greeted her with a kiss when he opened the door to us . |
| 18 | And he attacked it with a relish and enthusiasm which surprised even himself . |
| 19 | It was a defiant challenge , and he met it with a frown . |
| 20 | Flustered , she handed him her case and he took it with a strong hand , his face hard . |
| 21 | His mouth tightened and he released her with a shove , raking a hand through his black hair . |
| 22 | Not long ago , she said in his head , one comes to rely on one 's bit of fun , and he tried her with a joke or two , but the old happy creasing of the face took a time to occur . |
| 23 | ‘ I travelled down to Kent to stay with Donald , and he presented me with a cardboard box which contained this tiny puppy . |
| 24 | I asked him what he wanted and he hit me with a gin . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ My father ruled us with an iron fist and he hit us with an iron fist too , ’ Joe recalls . |
| 26 | The change of term was not quick enough and he covered it with a grandiose sweep of his hand which nearly knocked over the Doctor 's goblet . |
| 27 | I shouted at him , ‘ Ya , Zebbie the Coalpicker ’ , and he chased me with an axe to our back door . |
| 28 | At the beginning of the riot I went to take a picture of this one anarchist and he whacked me with a stick really hard . |
| 29 | I called in Doctor Andrews last night — I felt a little shaken and I do n't like that hotel fellow — and he supplied me with the information , ’ was the reply . |
| 30 | And on one occasion in the gymnasium , I turned round to look at a boy behind me and the master was there and he smacked me with the flat of his hand as hard as he could . |