Example sentences of "he [vb past] her with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped her with an impatient gesture . |
| 2 | He fixed her with a cool stare . |
| 3 | He fixed her with a glittering eye . |
| 4 | He fixed her with a bloodshot eye . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's not here , ’ he told her with a mocking ring to his tone which showed he knew exactly what she was thinking . |
| 7 | ‘ But perfectly in character , Caroline , ’ he told her with a derisive smile . |
| 8 | ‘ We both have things to say , ’ he told her with a fond smile . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll go first , ’ he told her with a scathing smile . |
| 10 | ‘ You do n't need to worry , ’ he told her with a rueful smile , ‘ we 're quite adequately chaperoned . |
| 11 | Guido sighed and seemed to relax a little , as he told her with a light smile , ‘ In fact , I 'm very pleased . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Chelmsford Crown Court heard that he blasted her with a sawn-off shotgun in the street in front of their two young children . |
| 15 | He studied her with a cool smile . |
| 16 | He graced her with a rueful smile . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's all right , I did n't peek , ’ he assured her with a wolfish grin . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | He followed her with an easy stride , blocked her escape , looming very tall and dark above her . |
| 20 | He released her with a sudden , impatient gesture , so that she slumped down gratefully on to the bed . |
| 21 | He threatened her with a small knife and assaulted her . |
| 22 | After a short discussion on the merits of the duck , he decided to join her ; and while they waited for the first course to arrive , he regaled her with a colourful account of that afternoon 's meeting in the history department to sort out the timetable . |
| 23 | He kissed her with a slow , all-consuming sweetness that she could not resist . |
| 24 | She also had the run of the library and she could of course go out , as long , he warned her with a sardonic look , as she did n't wander off with strange men . |
| 25 | He rewarded her with a cool smile as they entered the pub , and gestured towards a table . |
| 26 | Oh , my word , she thought , as , though he favoured her with a fond look , the cool calculating gleam in Naylor 's eyes showed he was n't too impressed to have landed himself such a devoted fiancée . |
| 27 | Before others his attitude was deferential and circumspect but when they rode alone , he treated her with the easy familiarity of an equal . |
| 28 | He treated her with the greatest courtesy , concerned that she should not be tired , or bored ; that the holiday should be nothing less than perfect . |
| 29 | He splashed her with the grey-green ocean of his eyes . |
| 30 | He greeted her with a thick-lipped smile . |