Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [pron] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally he agreed to provide us with an escort to Aussa . |
| 2 | His tone was sharp , almost curt ; he tried to soften it with a smile . |
| 3 | He tried to leaven it with a minor joke . |
| 4 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 5 | Last week he promised to supply us with a written explanation of the way his company had treated Debbie , but it never arrived . |
| 6 | The first time he 'd done it with a boy , he 'd been ashamed . |
| 7 | He 'd threatened her with the direst reprisals if she dared to leave their suite , not guessing that wild horses would n't drag her away until she 'd cleared the whole matter up . |
| 8 | He 'd fell you with an enchantment in an instant . |
| 9 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 10 | When he came , it was an anticlimax , but she squealed anyway and clung to him as if he 'd showered her with a gallon of spunk . |
| 11 | That was nice of Nevil , he 'd provided me with a cover story — I was supposed to look as if I 'd been mugged . |
| 12 | He swivelled to face her with a look of forced tolerance on his face . |
| 13 | Gently , he began to massage her with a greasy perfumed oil . |
| 14 | Lukic , whenever he decided to do something with a cross , punched it . |
| 15 | , he 's gone down , he 's looking for a penalty and it 's been given , the referee consulted the linesman , he looked at his nearside , it was who went in or was it Chris on David , the penalty award has been given by the referee , he looked to confirm it with the linesman on the nearside and that confirmation was all that he had needed to point to the spot . |
| 16 | There were many times in the past years when he had wondered why on earth he had involved himself with the Hochhauser Season , times when he was worried , exhausted , furious , and prepared to consign the whole company to hell . |
| 17 | But as soon as she walked in to see Keith he had faced her with a heap of newspaper and snippets of video-recordings . |
| 18 | As the heating was off it had been cold , but he had comforted himself with the thought that it was not as cold as it was outside where many of the animals were . |
| 19 | He had thought he could look at a picture of Wyvis Hall , a photograph he had taken himself with a cheap camera Zosie had stolen , with equanimity and even a rueful amusement , but it appeared he could not . |
| 20 | Born and bred in Stockport , he had identified himself with the life of the town and the School . |
| 21 | Appreciation that he had provided her with the escape route she had so badly sought ? |
| 22 | Yet he had pursued her with a single-minded intent that was unnerving . |
| 23 | When he had left her with a tiny baby , she had hardened her heart somehow . |
| 24 | But there was no time to dwell on that now ; in true Travis fashion he had left her with a big workload which she needed to clear today . |
| 25 | Tonight he had left her with a few unanswered questions , and speculations buzzing around her brain . |
| 26 | So it was , I assume , that he felt immediately able to talk to me in a businesslike and trusting way , and by the end of our meeting , he had left me with the administration of a not inconsiderable sum to meet the costs of a wide range of preparations for his coming residency . |
| 27 | He had left me with the one who would become the most famous . |
| 28 | When he had written his autobiography a few years earlier , he had started it with the verse : — |
| 29 | The possibility of a long poem clearly inspired him and , almost as soon as he had settled himself with the Mirrlees , he began to work upon the next poem in the sequence . |
| 30 | ‘ He wanted to hurt me with a knife , ’ explains Ludo . |