Example sentences of "[vb past] he with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She dropped to her knees , and unbuttoned him with quick busy fingers .
2 The indictment charged him with two offences .
3 She shrivelled him with one glance .
4 And his librettist , Alessandro Striggio , son of the composer , provided him with many more opportunities than Rinuccini to break up the recitative with musically attractive relief : extended madrigalian choruses and strophic solos such as Orfeo 's lilting ‘ Vi ricordo ’ in Act II ( accompanied only by continuo instruments , but with ritornelli played by five viole da braccio , a contrabass , two harpsichords , and three chitarroni ) , his display piece ‘ Possente spirto ’ in Act III ( accompanied by organo di legno and a chitarrone , but in the four stanzas competing with brilliant concertante parts for two violini , then two cornetti , a double-harp , and finally a string trio ) , and his swinging ‘ Qual honor ’ in Act IV ( varied strophes for the voice over an ostinato bass ) .
5 This footslogging — and often freezing — circuit of Ireland , during which he relied entirely on motorists ' charity , provided him with much diverting material .
6 The internal structures and emotional attitudes of the party at this time coincided exactly with his own mental state , and provided him with intellectual strength and emotional security .
7 Importantly for Nicholson , this quirk in the social order was all that was needed to give him the kick-start he required , and it also provided him with more money than he had ever earned before .
8 Further , and in acknowledgment of his work as joint secretary of the Tutorial Classes Committee and for his duties in connection with the annual Cambridge Summer School Pateman also received a substantial honorarium which provided him with some security as his salary as District Secretary was not infrequently in arrears .
9 The touch of Asuryan was no longer so strong in his mind , and the Sword of Khaine no longer provided him with near limitless strength .
10 There is no lasting acrimony between Gedge and Rigby and when they meet up he often jokes that she provided him with enough material to launch and sustain a musical career .
11 On the absurdity of his get rich quick schemes , which involved him with shady financiers .
12 She fixed him with anxious eyes .
13 Her head turned slightly towards him and she fixed him with that blind , unthinking stare .
14 He fell about laughing when his agent phoned him with this news .
15 Brihtric pursued him with eighty vessels , which were driven ashore by a storm , and then burnt by Wulfnoth .
16 Heat and smoke buffeted him with welcoming arms as he entered the bar .
17 In fact MacDonald was as much a " gradualist " as the Fabians or as the cautious trade-union officials who initially regarded him with much suspicion .
18 As he strode towards the door , Ashley regarded him with cold eyes .
19 Dressed soberly in a long-sleeved , ankle-length tunic which , though cut loosely , came high up to her neck , she approached him with both hands extended in greeting .
20 Her voice and the rattle of pots faded away into the house , and he heard , close to , Annie 's uncontrolled chortle as she approached him with some wicked intent .
21 In the evening Chola woke him with some water to drink : he winced and then groaned as the pain shot out from his thigh and radiated through his body .
22 Whites who did n't know him , yet condemned him with borrowed certainty as someone who had little interest in cricket beyond its utility as a stick to beat the apartheid policy with , were typical of the society I came from .
23 clouted him with that felt tip .
24 ‘ I am not walking to any hut with you , ’ she assured him with icy defiance .
25 ‘ Oh … oh , so was mine , ’ she told him with hasty fervour .
26 ‘ Thank you so much for the advice , ’ she told him with icy calm , ‘ but I can assure you that it was n't necessary . ’
27 Told him with great enthusiasm .
28 ‘ There are other ways , ’ she told him with Spartan vigour .
29 ‘ Oh , I can think of several things , ’ she told him with soft-voiced hostility .
30 Sarah affected him with such unexpected desire he could n't understand himself .
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