Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was always the other way round , and when he found overnight fame , he clung to it with both hands and worried sometimes that it would go away again . |
| 2 | She liked Peter 's smooth , clean skin , and his childhood-smelling hair , and the way he gazed at her with huge eyes without his glasses . |
| 3 | It was a foolish thing to do , she knew that a fraction of a second too late ; he cannoned into her with such force that she fell heavily to the ground . |
| 4 | No longer does he cling on to the status that he wrested from him with such arrogance and cruelty . |
| 5 | Mention is also made of his lease of the customs and the way ‘ he presided over them with singular liberality towards those of higher rank ’ . |
| 6 | He peered at her with little beady eyes , as though trying to guess from her expression how much she and her companion had heard . |
| 7 | Later that afternoon he came to me with some of my translations from the index cards . |
| 8 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 9 | He came towards her with outstretched hand . |
| 10 | He turned on me with one of his nastiest looks . |
| 11 | He began to think that he had perhaps been unfair to Tess , and he thought about her with growing affection . |
| 12 | His memories of Sarah were as strong as ever , but he thought of her with mixed emotions . |
| 13 | He thought of her with shocked tenderness and a kind of sad humility . |
| 14 | I 'm meeting Lucy off the train later on anyway , and if you want to know the truth ’ — he looked about him with rolling eyes — ‘ I 'm completely pissed off with the whole of this bloody set-up . |
| 15 | ‘ He looked at me with one of those amiable stares of his , said I was overworked and I should take some time off . |
| 16 | He looked at me with confident contempt . |
| 17 | He looked at me with bright eyes , unperplexed . |
| 18 | He looked at me with yellow feral eyes . |
| 19 | And he looked at me with full concentration . |
| 20 | He looked at me with some care . |
| 21 | He looked at her with sardonic amusement which deepened when she quickly looked away . |
| 22 | He looked at her with new respect , the way they always did when she said something like that . |
| 23 | He looked at her with such incredulity that she turned away . |
| 24 | The man at her side wore sea boots and a thick white sweater , and he looked at her with one eyebrow raised , a small , teasing smile lifting the corners of his mouth . |
| 25 | He looked at her with hard eyes that seemed to see every thought she had ever had . |
| 26 | He looked at her with big , brown , sad eyes . |
| 27 | He looked at her with hunted eyes . |
| 28 | He looked at her with troubled eyes , but she could not know how much his answer was going to hurt . |
| 29 | He looked at her with slow deliberation , and she felt her breathing deepen . |
| 30 | He looked at her with those sensual eyes and she knew how Ma must have felt when she first met Pa . |