Example sentences of "[prep] he with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seated himself comfortably in a chair opposite the bed , and hooked a footstool towards him with the toe of his shoe . |
| 2 | He held his spear gun out in front of him with the safety off and used his flippers to keep facing the fish . |
| 3 | Then the patient 's arms are placed on a table in front of him with the hands flat and fingers spread open . |
| 4 | ‘ It was a disgrace the way they treated Gower because in the last Test against Pakistan , before this tour , he did everything that was asked of him with the bat . |
| 5 | I always carry some with me , but I hope I never have to use it because I do n't think I 'd get near him with the needle . ’ |
| 6 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 7 | Morrissey asked his old friend , former Easterhouse guitarist Ivor Perry ( then with the infant Cradle ) to work with him with the possibility of Perry becoming Marr 's replacement . |
| 8 | They need not prove that the accused had it with him with the intention of using it to cause injury to the person . |
| 9 | With some trepidation I went with him with the trusty Seagull Outboard chugging manfully over the huge swell . |
| 10 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ he replies and goes on to ask her to take care of two suitcases full of Austrian shoes he has brought with him with the intention of selling on the black market . |
| 11 | He 'd shaken up Evans , first bawling him out then ending up with a show of confidence in him with the Havana . |
| 12 | The first glimpse of Father Philip had made his heart turn and contract in him with the pain of the memories that tugged him back towards Aber , older memories than the bitterness and anger that had driven him away . |
| 13 | They sprawled across the padded benches before him with the somewhat jaded air of men who expected to hear nothing new . |
| 14 | Thus you shall never hear of Michael Heseltine 's desire to drive a blood-red Grand Prix car , scattering Mansells and Sennas before him with the sublime panache of Mr Toad . |
| 15 | His literary prowess was now enforcing itself upon him with the urgency of a destiny , as with all true writers , ‘ born , not made ’ . |
| 16 | One man alone remembered his forgotten humanity , and the Spirit of God flared within him with the brightness of Eden , and against the crowd , with the dignity of a true son of God , he offered some unrefined wine on a sponge to the dying king . |
| 17 | The epoch when the writer photographed the life about him with the mechanics of words redolent of the daguerrotype , is happily drawing to its close . |
| 18 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 19 | He was strolling down the steep narrow street towards the sea , his hands deep in his pockets and his shirt open at the throat , very pale and Londonish , looking about him with the fond , proprietorial air of an Englishman returning to a favourite spot abroad . |
| 20 | He was absolutely worshipped by all disinterested persons at G.Q.G. When he entered the hotel , tapping the floor with his stick and looking about him with the mischievous and bright glances of a boy , every one came up to him instinctively , only too pleased to see him . |
| 21 | Well , he fired a pistol and someone went for him with the blade of a scythe . ’ |
| 22 | When Betjeman failed his Divinity exams at the end of his first year , it would have been open to his tutor to plead for him with the College so that he could resit these comparatively unimportant exams and stay on at the University . |
| 23 | She flirted outrageously , promising that she would secure an interview for him with the Queen but she always seemed to fail . |
| 24 | He fumbled a packet from the pocket of his anorak and I lit one for him with the dashboard lighter . |
| 25 | Rolled passes do not impress the purists , or stop the opposition , but Gloucester were slow to see the threat of Swift coming across field and when Guscott took Barnes ' pass , Swift appeared outside him with the powerful Fallon overlapping on his left . |
| 26 | An eager public woman appealed to him with the story of her cleaning woman , who had proved herself at fault . |
| 27 | Betjeman introduced Louis MacNeice to him with the words ‘ He does n't say much , but he 's a great poet . ’ |
| 28 | I said , squaring up to him with the fish slice in my hand like a machete . |
| 29 | Whilst Richard Baxter was visiting his sick father in Shropshire , Mr. Baldwin came to him with the news that he too had been forbidden to preach . |
| 30 | Hayling was also in charge of media initiatives , so Lowe naturally turned to him with the newspaper they had so often discussed as comrades in Big Flame . |