Example sentences of "he [verb] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The mother motioned him to go with a shake of her head .
2 But Thomson was soon back in favour again , receiving instructions on the management of the impending war with Spain in the Caribbean from the Protector , who told him to liaise with the fleet commanders ( 1654 ) , and joining an enlarged trade committee ( 1655 ) .
3 After that , D'Arcy called Dave Forbes in London to put him briefly in the picture and to tell him to liaise with the ship and cargo insurers at Lloyd 's .
4 She dismissed him to silence with a wave of a narrow , fleshless arm .
5 Recognising that man can not escape , it leaves him to cope with the paradox and frustration , content to walk by faith , not by sight , believing that one day all things will become new and be reconciled in Christ .
6 He also intervenes in the life of another guest at the party , Celia Coplestone , a young woman who comes to him filled with a sense " … of emptiness , of failure " .
7 I remember him struggling with a story where understanding of the narrative depended on the reader knowing about canals .
8 We also find him toying with the idea of writing an arthuriad , choosing his subject from English history .
9 The next morning , although he felt better , his hands were shaking so much that I refused to let him shave with a safety razor and told him that a friend was bringing his own electric shaver to lend him .
10 One can see him grappling with the difficulty in his poem-cum-essay ‘ The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm 's Son ’ , published in 1953 , the year before The Fellowship of the Ring .
11 Now I 've seen him interfering with the smoke alarm now !
12 Fancy sending him to skool with a name like Eustace .
13 And that was him done with the travelling life . ’
14 During World War I his pacifist convictions led him to serve with the Friends ' Ambulance Unit in France and then with the Friends ' War Victims ' Relief Committee in Russia .
15 Er but er they devised various ways on their own to help them with these things , you know , they er I do n't know exactly what it was called but you you would see a Maybe a riveter in below the in below the boat er doing the shell , in below the boat , and he would have a Like a hammer , a a an arm that was rigged up for him er to give him an assistance with the the machine , to hold the machine up to You know to let him work with the machine .
16 She had never even expected him to help with the dishes when she had fed him here .
17 The then Leader of the House , John MacGregor ( who was today sitting on the platform with the great ones of the party , wearing a kilt to which , strictly speaking , he was not entitled ) had called upon him to help with the inquiries .
18 ‘ Peter wanted to do anything he could to help catch Paul 's killers but it was not easy for him to help with the pictures . ’
19 A local authority does not acquire parental responsibility under an interim supervision order but the order may require the child or the person responsible for him to comply with the supervisor 's directions .
20 Amanullah 's pursuit of his two most cherished objectives , to modernize his country in the shortest possible time and to make it independent of Britain , soon brought him into headlong conflict with Humphrys , whose previous eighteen years in India , mostly among the tribes across the frontier from Afghanistan , had not prepared him to deal with a ruler of such independence of mind .
21 Sheriff Crozier said yesterday that it would have been wrong of him to deal with the matter behind the scenes .
22 Now , however , the Scots were more audacious and belligerent than ever , and Lancaster was the heir to Edward 's problems , particularly as the earl raised quite as many qualms and suspicions as the king did ; there was even talk of him allying with the Scots in order to defeat his English enemies .
23 When the reports and figures come in , you should discuss them with your solicitor and instruct him to negotiate with the vendor 's solicitor a reduction in price to take account of the defects , independent valuation and any discrepancies in boundaries/room sizes .
24 Harry 's employer , Major Spofforth , was himself a golfer ; he recognized that the young man had skill , and encouraged him to persevere with the game .
25 He brought you back here , and you stayed with him long enough to get him to part with the doge 's ring … ’
26 ‘ His mum worries about him coping with the ironing , and the cooking .
27 Boo does not conform to the community 's code because when he got into trouble at the age of 18 , his father , a very strict Baptist , undertook to punish his son himself , rather than let the law do it and for the rest of his life until he died , he kept his son away from the outside world and would not let him mix with the neighbours .
28 Christine called out to him and found him crying with the bottle of poisonous carbolic acid still in his hands .
29 The Alcometer reading was negligible , so we let him go with a warning . ’
30 Ace made love to her in a silence made all the more potent when her roving caresses forced him to respond with a groan of pleasure as they touched each other intimately .
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