Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't expected him to greet her with ecstatic joy — his emotions were n't extreme like Lowell 's thankfully — but neither had she expected a degree of embarrassment . |
| 2 | His many-sided aesthetic interests led him to surround himself with first editions , Bristol glass , mother-of-pearl knick-knacks , and , above all , his notable collection of musical boxes ( later given to the Pitt Rivers Museum , Oxford ) . |
| 3 | It 's not just a case of him taking us with all of what we had and were and us belonging to him , but he says i in taking you to myself , he says I give myself to you . |
| 4 | Looking up with a gasp , she saw him watching her with narrowed blue eyes , his mouth a hard line . |
| 5 | It was uncomfortable enough , knowing she would have to face him , but it was worse not to know when , to wonder if she would turn around suddenly and find him watching her with those cold , cold eyes … |
| 6 | His hotel room had three beds , and for a few days he shared it with two German boys , students , who had enormous rucksacks and bulky guidebooks , and who were eager for Tim to go round with them . |
| 7 | Because Nick is ju erm is young and because he associates him with all these dangerous ideas , in genetic engineering and so on , he feels threatened by him . |
| 8 | Captain 11 times , he repaid them with 3915 runs , 12 centuries , an average of 43.98 , and an adhesiveness more commonly found in tubes of Araldite . |
| 9 | He read it with less pleasure … |
| 10 | When he came across the bodies in the middle of Gayton village , he found one with broken legs , but still alive . |
| 11 | He regarded her with ironic eyes , his lips a little pursed . |
| 12 | He regarded her with lazy , sleepy eyes and said : |
| 13 | He regarded her with total disbelief . |
| 14 | While he regarded her with evident interest , she searched her mind . |
| 15 | He regarded her with calculated interest . |
| 16 | He regarded her with undisguised affection . |
| 17 | He bore himself with great dignity , and not a little humour , but he was disappointed to the innermost core . |
| 18 | Christine fought for her balance as he grasped her with hooked fingers . |
| 19 | He covers it with both hands . |
| 20 | The ultimate synthesis of a design was never revealed in a flash ; rather he approached it with infinite precautions , stalking it , as it were , now from one point of view , now from another , and always in fear lest a premature definition might deprive it of something of its total complexity . |
| 21 | He knew that these societies of Gaul and Spain had their own rules and virtues , and he described them with obvious sympathy . |
| 22 | HE WOOED her with skew-whiff quotes from Shakespeare , pranced about in Chelsea football kit — minus the shorts — then bedded her on a futon with all the stamina of an 18-year-old . |
| 23 | ‘ Did he do anything with these ? |
| 24 | He lifted it with both hands to take a bite , glancing wistfully at his cigarette in the ashtray . |
| 25 | Here , when Jacob meets his own brother , he meets him with all the courtly ceremony with which petty vassal princes used to greet their Pharaoh . |
| 26 | He received me with grave courtesy and enquired after my family . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's the heavens rejoicing , ’ he told her with firm surety . |
| 28 | Awfully cold , ’ he told her with malicious pleasure . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's what one does to necks , ’ he told her with mock menace . |
| 30 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |