Example sentences of "he [vb past] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Tonight she had said nothing , so Frankie almost believed himself safe , yet he lived with the constant fear that one night she would make a horrible mistake and he would walk to his death in the inky shadows upstairs . |
2 | Increasingly , he realised with a certain satisfaction that this was a family of shame and scandal . |
3 | ‘ Oh , I 'm all ears , Miss Swift ! ’ he drawled with a cool gesture from one strong tanned hand before replacing it below his hard jaw . |
4 | ‘ If you say so , ’ he drawled with a smug expression . |
5 | ‘ And what exactly , ’ he drawled with a hard smile , ‘ has your uncle told you about me ? ’ |
6 | He glowed with a rich and handsome flush of compassion . |
7 | Just another bloody journalist , a dilettante with a ragbag mind , who thought that because he had a smattering of scientific language , which he produced with a glib assurance that made George want to choke him , he was qualified to question him , a serious scientist with an intellectual grasp that Gerrard could never understand , let alone achieve . |
8 | ‘ Of course , ’ he agreed with a wide grin . |
9 | ‘ If I have to , ’ he agreed with a cool arrogance that utterly appalled her . |
10 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ he agreed with a bitter little smile . |
11 | ‘ No , ’ he agreed with a wicked smile . |
12 | In July 1947 he agreed with the Jewish Agency to support partition and the establishment of a Jewish state in return for Jewish financial help for Transjordan . |
13 | ‘ I could , ’ he agreed with the forbidding smile still on his face . |
14 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
15 | The cheerfulness with which Rose greeted him he met with a deep reserve . |
16 | The court admitted that it was giving an unusual meaning to the word , for a historian who described the end of Rizzio by saying that he met with a fatal accident in Holyrood Palace would fairly be charged with a misleading statement of fact . |
17 | There he met with the first Dragon Prince of Caledor , Caledor Dragontamer , greatest of the High Mages of old . |
18 | Jones ' best data did not exist until 1989 ; by the time that he met with the two chemists he had measured ‘ run number 6 ’ ( see Figure 4 , page 69 ) which is shown in his paper as the most dramatic signal and which proved to the BYU team 's satisfaction that they were right . |
19 | The last hopes of avoiding war centred on ( i ) a French mediation effort in early January ; ( ii ) the Jan. 9 US-Iraqi meeting in Geneva at foreign ministerial level , i.e. between US Secretary of State James Baker and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz ; ( iii ) a visit by Pérez de Cuéllar to Baghdad , where he met with the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Jan. 13 ; and ( iv ) the possibility of a last-minute French initiative , with Soviet support , at the UN . |
20 | Here he argued with the European leaders of Protestantism , from Karl Barth downwards , over the difference between a Catholic and a Protestant idea of the Church . |
21 | And he rode with a jewelled twinkle , |
22 | His boots were up to the thigh , and he rode with a jewelled twinkle , his pistols but a twinkle , his rapier hilt a twinkle under the jewelled sky . |
23 | This deficiency he shared with a whole crew of leaders of third-world or so-called ‘ non-aligned ’ countries , who like him had gained power because they were against foreign rulers , not because they had any idea of what to put in place of foreign rule . |
24 | He had enjoyed a distinguished military career : he fought with the Black Prince at Crécy when he was only sixteen , and served in Brittany between 1360 and 1367 . |
25 | He fought with the Eighth Army and was mentioned in dispatches when he shot down a German plane with a machine-gun he had captured from an Italian plane . |
26 | He realized with a vicious clarity that he had never considered the possibility of discovery . |
27 | ‘ Do n't mess around with me ! ’ he interrupted with the savage snarl of an angry lion , making Meredith take a step back in astonishment . |
28 | ‘ I 'm dog-tired after that trek this afternoon , ’ he announced with a brief compassionate glance at Sarella . |
29 | ‘ So what now ? ’ he asked with a slight uneven laugh . |
30 | He asked with a pronounced Welsh accent whether Blanche had interviewed Nicola 's husband . |