Example sentences of "with him [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had taken the Thompson with him for a practical demonstration and afterwards had not had an opportunity to exchange it for the army 's normal issue Sterling gun . |
| 2 | Obviously unwilling , he asked for an absurd sum for doing so , but eventually Omar settled with him for a reasonable amount . |
| 3 | Will talked with him for a few minutes , then gave him a penny . |
| 4 | You know he 's twenty two , twenty three years old , you know , you know whatever he 's doing he 's liable to be with him for a few years yet and what can one see |
| 5 | The children skipped along with him for a few yards and he saw how beguiling their faces were , the large dark eyes , the straggle of thick black hair , the earnest looks of desperate innocence . |
| 6 | Claudia felt as if she were drowning in a pool of conflicting emotions ; the last thing she wanted was to go anywhere with Roman and yet the thought of being with him for a little while longer filled her with delight . |
| 7 | Well Chris says he 's got ta keep in with him for a little while , he said he |
| 8 | Many remonstrated with him for a howling storm was raging outside , it was night and the journey was a dangerous one . |
| 9 | He relaxed his death-hold on me and made me sit down with him on a convenient bench . |
| 10 | Many who are with him on a daily basis support him because he is their only hope . |
| 11 | I had discussed the problems of insider analysis with him at a 1988 Police Conference , where he described how , on return to his force after his undergraduate degree , he had asked for permission to publish research material . |
| 12 | Eleven years later I worked with him as a local newspaper reporter when he was a club manager at Ayr United . |
| 13 | I used to go with him as a little boy . |
| 14 | For — while Sir Felix had nothing much wrong with him except a wild look in his eye sometimes and a tendency to go off in fits of what Gemma had called " unstable " laughter — she had heard certain tales of moral laxity about his brothers and uncles and even one or two of his sisters , which had done nothing for her peace of mind . |
| 15 | Everywhere he went , he carried his unhappiness with him like a black cloud . |
| 16 | A friend of mine found this out when he brought a video back with him after a long weekend in Amsterdam . |
| 17 | When , in well-cut white satin and glycerine tears , she sobbed , Oh but Daddy I do love him , I do love him , he still tried to reason with her ; but then when he saw her hitching up the satin and running across the lawn , throwing off the veil , scattering the astonished wedding guests as she ran , and when he saw her jumping into a truck , not caring that she was getting petrol stains all over her broderie anglaise , jumping into a truck and not with the man they all expected her to love , but with the one she really loves , and then driving off with him in a cheap pickup truck to a motel in Wisconsin , shouting out , Goodbye Father , Goodbye Father ! as she goes ; well when he saw her doing that then Boy could not bring himself to disapprove . |
| 18 | Hartmut , a friend from Trinity College , Bristol , a gifted personal evangelist and now a curate , was ringing to see if we would go and work with him in a small commuter suburb of Upminster in Essex . |
| 19 | This special tribute in WWF News attempts , however inadequately , to give WWF supporters and staff a picture of what Peter 's many qualities and leadership skills meant to some of those who have been privileged to work with him in a great adventure . |
| 20 | Afterwards , she had contrived a quarter of an hour alone with him in a private office . |
| 21 | ( For the record , he claims never to have met the girl linked with him in a recent Sunday supplement expose . ) |
| 22 | He dragged defenders with him in a diagonal run , turned , and hit a superb curling shot into the far corner . |
| 23 | ‘ Good , tell him I 'll be with him in a few minutes … and Bourne , notify Dr Franks . ’ |
| 24 | The cover of Bryan Ferry 's second solo album — with him in a white tuxedo by a swimming pool — really sealed it . |