Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] with his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goreng had dominated him with his will . |
| 2 | She looked disappointed , so Toby had obviously disarmed her with his usual charm , and had probably promised some expenses , too . |
| 3 | She was tall and had a slender enough waist for him to have spanned it with his hands , and he was amazed at how strongly he wished he could be given the chance . |
| 4 | Despite the lodging-house furniture , the room bore hallmarks of long individual occupation , Aranyos having impressed it with his stamp in the form of various ornaments , mostly of a military flavour . |
| 5 | I can not say whether this manifestation was a product of opium or not but ever after the most excruciating of my opium torments have regularly visited me with his likeness and the haunted corridors of my mind have resounded with his peculiar bombast . |
| 6 | He told the jury yesterday that he had never threatened her with his truncheon , but he had offered to use it as a sexual aid . |
| 7 | Jim , who gave a lively impromptu speech after chairman , Hugh Jamieson had presented him with his award , was in typically dismissive mood about his own talents . |
| 8 | She had never seen him with his hair cut short , and the absence of the red-blond locks made him for a moment unrecognisable . |
| 9 | I have seen him with his girls in the fields , and when he knows I am watching he kisses them . |
| 10 | The murderer had done it with his bare hands . |
| 11 | wo woken up and heard her come in and that he 's had her standing in front of him and the old finger 's been going , exactly what he 's doing now , he 's done it with his |
| 12 | Whether he would have made it with his fairly anaemic academic record at Wellington is another matter . |
| 13 | But then she reminded herself that Miguel had entrusted her with his secret , and there was no way she could even explain her unhappiness to anyone . |
| 14 | He remembered the night before , when Dorian had watched him with his bright blue eyes , half wondering , half afraid . |
| 15 | A tottering old oily fellow kicked the cafe door open , after he 'd opened it with his scrawny hand ! |
| 16 | Yet Clark had known all along of the military preparations ‘ Musketeer I ’ and ‘ Musketeer II ’ and had been dismayed when Dulles seemed to have aborted them with his Suez Canal Users Club ; and after the Anglo-French meeting in London in September he had put out ‘ a dull communiqué , and no one has the least idea of what big things were abroad' . |
| 17 | Even that buttock-licker Pybus seems worried that Pahdra Singh has replaced them with his shifty brothers but , as I told Crowe , having a property developer , an estate agent and a supermarket magnate on the board can only be good for the club . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State for Energy , Mr Nigel Lawson , had not fooled them with his praise for the fast reactor two days earlier ; for his action , to delay the work all but indefinitely , spoke louder than his words . |
| 19 | He was obedient to the pressure — for he could easily have overborne her with his superior strength — but his voice was guttural . |
| 20 | Byrd 's 22 variations on ‘ Walsingham ’ present special difficulties including cross-rhythm , but Bull seems to have deliberately trumped them with his even more brilliant and difficult 30 variations on the same tune , which Tregian placed at the head of his anthology : a veritable thesaurus of keyboard devices . |
| 21 | He condemns the monk : at the same time as he acknowledges the monk 's ingenuity that has provided him with his sexual reward : This monk does not suffer the retributive poetic justice that is so frequently met with by lecherous clerics in the French fabliaux . |
| 22 | ‘ Had n't Meredith-Lee found him with his hands in the till ? ’ |
| 23 | She was glad he had found her with his navy-blue suit on and his tie-pin . |
| 24 | He had sometimes half frightened her with his need for her . |
| 25 | Whatever it was , he 'd served me with his final invoice and I 'd paid it in full . |
| 26 | The unimaginable heat and weight of Fenna had pressed the ooze in the cave , pressed so hotly and heavily that the molecules of mud were squeezed apart , breaking up into carbon atoms and hydrogen atoms , and his weight had compressed the carbon atoms into diamond crystals , and more and more diamonds until his hoard was a lure to garish youths , who had toiled up to his cave and exchanged riddles and blows with him , but when he had fixed them with his ancient evil little eyes , they retreated abashed to sing his praises . |
| 27 | The tall man fixed him with his cold eyes . |
| 28 | And he seemed to be pretending that he had never touched her with his hot , wet mouth , anyway . |
| 29 | If he 'd looked around and fixed her with his melting eyes , she might have done . |
| 30 | Having steadied it with his foot , Michele helped her in , stepped down lightly beside her , and brought the engine to life . |