Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He regarded her with total disbelief . |
| 2 | While he regarded her with evident interest , she searched her mind . |
| 3 | He regarded her with calculated interest . |
| 4 | He regarded her with undisguised affection . |
| 5 | He knew that these societies of Gaul and Spain had their own rules and virtues , and he described them with obvious sympathy . |
| 6 | He received me with grave courtesy and enquired after my family . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's the heavens rejoicing , ’ he told her with firm surety . |
| 8 | Awfully cold , ’ he told her with malicious pleasure . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's what one does to necks , ’ he told her with mock menace . |
| 10 | He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office . |
| 11 | ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness . |
| 12 | He studied it with growing distaste . |
| 13 | ‘ You are looking at a genuinely reformed character , ’ he assured her with soft intensity , his gaze darkening as his eyes roved hungrily over her flushed cheeks , then down to the open neck of her checked blouse where her breasts were crushed against his chest . |
| 14 | And then his mouth fell to hers and he consumed her with hungry possession . |
| 15 | He had been so gentle , controlling his own need while he readied her with exquisite subtlety and patience . |
| 16 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 17 | ‘ You 're doing no such thing , ’ he informed her with dangerous calm . |
| 18 | ‘ My mother did no such thing ! ’ he informed her with aggressive force . |
| 19 | May he bless us with new hope and determination to live according to His Word , our Lord Jesus Christ . |
| 20 | He ordered them with grim concentration . |
| 21 | The box having been placed upon the table , he ordered it with great eagerness to be opened . |
| 22 | He surrounded them with barbed wire . |
| 23 | I only had to deal with a couple of vicious assaults over the telephone when the magazine I was writing for decided he was too dodgy to get involved with and , with mind-boggling nerve , he threatened us with legal action for breach of contract . |
| 24 | We 're going to survive by being violent' — he expressed it with passionate intensity . |
| 25 | He kissed her with suppressed violence , then let her go so abruptly that she almost lost balance . |
| 26 | He remembers it with considerable affection . |
| 27 | He watched it with intense concentration for a few moments , then left the room . |
| 28 | O'Shea , of Shepherd 's Bush , west London , who had been her boyfriend for several months , admitted to police he strangled her with electrical flex . |
| 29 | The Buller of Buchan had more appeal , and he summarised it with glittering accuracy : ‘ It has the appearance of a vast well bordered with a wall . ’ |
| 30 | He had come to it relatively late in his short life , having dulled the joys of promiscuity , music and organization early on , and like everything else he took an interest in , he did it with terrifying brilliance . |