Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [pron] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |
| 2 | When she looked back at Petion , she saw that he was watching her with a sympathetic expression . |
| 3 | He was watching her with a glint of amusement in those remarkable eyes . |
| 4 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 5 | With a puzzled lift of her head she found he was watching her with a faraway expression in his eyes . |
| 6 | He was watching her with a strange look on his face , half amusement , half something else , and she felt herself bristle . |
| 7 | That curious flicker was in his eyes again ; he was watching her with an intensity that was unnerving . |
| 8 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 9 | He was regarding me with an indulgence that did not convince me . |
| 10 | It was then she realised that he was lambasting her with the tennis racquet . |
| 11 | And then , almost at once , his iron control seemed to snap , and he was kissing her with a frenzied , pent-up , impatient longing that was totally beyond anything she 'd ever experienced before . |
| 12 | Looking impossibly handsome in his formal wedding clothes , he was surveying her with a fierce intensity that not only made her blush furiously , but caused her pulses to race almost out of control . |
| 13 | He did n't even look up , he was doing something with the cafetière . |
| 14 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |
| 15 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 16 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 17 | The only thing wrong was he was washing them with a hundred octane gasoline , he had a gasoline engine firing exhaust underneath it and he was parked among all our gas trucks . |
| 18 | He was threatening them with an extraordinary general meeting of the club . |
| 19 | She wondered if he was saying it with a question in his voice , testing her response . |