Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Upon arrival , he met us with a hefty stick he had dragged from somewhere , plonked it down , nosed it toward me and waited , tail shifting like a black snake . |
2 | It was not a place to which he could take Maureen MacQuillan or any woman , and only partly because he shared it with a fellow MP . |
3 | He got it with the cruel bonus of a broken jaw but took Tyson the distance . |
4 | Well he , he , he given them a free cup of coffee it 'll be alright , but he did n't , he gave , the machine took ten P pieces so he provided them with the ten P pieces to put in and then when it was full up he 'd empty it out and give them all ten P pieces back |
5 | 2 He provided us with a new theory as to the essential reality of governing , in the period of classical parliamentary government , in the period when members of the Commons enjoyed a golden age of independence between the fall of patronage and the rise of highly organised political parties . |
6 | He just leaned on me and when he caught me with a left hook I was given a standing count . |
7 | He stopped her with an impatient gesture . |
8 | He fixed her with a cool stare . |
9 | He fixed her with a glittering eye . |
10 | He fixed her with a bloodshot eye . |
11 | He dismissed it with a faint , scornful laugh as he moved towards the door . |
12 | There was a time , early in their days at Cambridge , when a brilliant and handsome research student from Yale made a determined pitch for Robyn , and she had been rather dazzled and excited by the experience ( he wooed her with a heady mixture of the latest post Freudian theoretical jargon and devastatingly frank sexual propositions , so she was never quite sure whether it was Lacan 's symbolic phallus he was referring to or his own real one ) . |
13 | ‘ She 's not here , ’ he told her with a mocking ring to his tone which showed he knew exactly what she was thinking . |
14 | ‘ But perfectly in character , Caroline , ’ he told her with a derisive smile . |
15 | ‘ We both have things to say , ’ he told her with a fond smile . |
16 | ‘ I 'll go first , ’ he told her with a scathing smile . |
17 | ‘ You do n't need to worry , ’ he told her with a rueful smile , ‘ we 're quite adequately chaperoned . |
18 | Guido sighed and seemed to relax a little , as he told her with a light smile , ‘ In fact , I 'm very pleased . |
19 | ‘ It 's about all I am intending to keep on ! ’ he told her with a husky , sensual bark of laughter that left her breathless and quivering in his arms as he entered the room and tossed her lightly down on to the bed . |
20 | No hearts were going to be broken , he told her with the frankest face , if he were to run off with a Protestant and have a dozen kids . |
21 | In that case , he told me with a grim expression , there was something he had to warn me about . |
22 | Chelmsford Crown Court heard that he blasted her with a sawn-off shotgun in the street in front of their two young children . |
23 | He blasted them with a powerful assault rifle after knocking back eight pints and storming his girlfriend 's flat , it was alleged . |
24 | He studied her with a cool smile . |
25 | He graced her with a rueful smile . |
26 | Something sprang to the floor and he mashed it with a large flying-boot . |
27 | ‘ It 's all right , I did n't peek , ’ he assured her with a wolfish grin . |
28 | He acknowledged me with a flat palm upraised . |
29 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |
30 | He followed her with an easy stride , blocked her escape , looming very tall and dark above her . |