Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [pron] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | He insisted we join him for dinner where he regaled us with tidbits of gossip from the court and city . |
| 2 | ‘ He escorted me to his lodgings , where he treated me with every kindness , and dried my clothes whilst I managed a few hours sleep . ’ |
| 3 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 4 | Six years on , the family moved to Ugthorpe Lodge on the Whitby moors , a hotel with caravan site and smallholding where Mr Chance also had stables and where he involved himself with the Goathland Pony Club . |
| 5 | Although he accepted it with trepidation . |
| 6 | Although he accepted it with trepidation . |
| 7 | He built his dragons a garden , the most beautiful garden in the world , and although he surrounded it with an iron wall which he believed they would not cross , he made the wall beautiful for them , lavish with filigree work and sweet with hanging plants . |
| 8 | I retained a friendship for George Brown , although he regarded me with rather dubious approval because of my omission to drink anything at any dinner party . |
| 9 | No sooner had she begun manufacturing a few defences than he demolished them with a flick of his finger . |
| 10 | There were n't really any proper ones for men , so he contented himself with Vogue , Marie Claire and Harpers . |
| 11 | The intense processing involved obviously exhausted too much of Gav 's thinly-stretch grey matter to allow speech in the near future , so he contented himself with a grunt and submerged again . |
| 12 | ‘ When I was a kid , my Dad was into Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin , so he tainted me with all that , then I got into the punk thing when that was going down . |
| 13 | The human ape laid one skinny hand on my arm and hissed in my ear : ‘ So he sent you with a message , eh ? ’ |
| 14 | Eventually MacPhie found he could break the spell of the magic thread if he cut it with the woman 's magic hatchet . |
| 15 | If he surpassed himself with a full-scale mock-up of the ceiling for the Salla Romana with a snake-pit of interwoven flowers and exuberant garlands , he could be sure that a cursory glance by Ceauşescu would be followed by the demand , ‘ More flowers , more gold leaf . ’ |
| 16 | If he shared it with someone there was no sign of the other man ; but perhaps the whole place was rented furnished and what Coffin could see , heavy leather sofas and hunting prints , was some third party 's scheme of decoration . |
| 17 | Their disruptive behaviour was proving a headache to Mr Jones until he discovered the elephants could be kept at bay if he fed them with their favourite fruit pears . |
| 18 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 19 | If he really had left his boat in the cove round the point , he would have to come this way again , and I would certainly be able to see if he brought anything with him . |
| 20 | He guaranteed his windows against everything up to a BlastMaster minimissile , but you were usually too dead to complain if he supplied you with defective merch . |
| 21 | He would not be true to himself if he showered us with blessings while we 're outside of his will . |
| 22 | Yeah he should have cos he swapped one with you ai n't he ? |
| 23 | But the excuse which he gave had a genuine ring about it : he could not afford to go , for none would serve in his retinue unless he rewarded them with revenues from his own lands , which would entail a loss of status ( ‘ grant abesement de mon estat ’ ) which the king would not wish . |
| 24 | Maybe it was because he had me with him . |
| 25 | It was not a place to which he could take Maureen MacQuillan or any woman , and only partly because he shared it with a fellow MP . |
| 26 | His lectures were above all popular because he packed them with information . |
| 27 | that 's right because he discussed it with me |
| 28 | He would not believe anything till he saw them with his own eyes . |
| 29 | If Felipe thought she would take the husband off his hands while he amused himself with Candace he was very much mistaken ! |
| 30 | Perhaps it just grew and matured until it took in all their emotions , but his hands began to smooth her back and shoulders , until in the end his fingers were threaded through her hair and his big , warm hands were holding her steady while he kissed her with mesmerising thoroughness . |