Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He read it with less pleasure … |
| 5 | When he came across the bodies in the middle of Gayton village , he found one with broken legs , but still alive . |
| 6 | He regarded her with ironic eyes , his lips a little pursed . |
| 7 | He regarded her with lazy , sleepy eyes and said : |
| 8 | He regarded her with total disbelief . |
| 9 | While he regarded her with evident interest , she searched her mind . |
| 10 | He regarded her with calculated interest . |
| 11 | He regarded her with undisguised affection . |
| 12 | He bore himself with great dignity , and not a little humour , but he was disappointed to the innermost core . |
| 13 | Christine fought for her balance as he grasped her with hooked fingers . |
| 14 | He covers it with both hands . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He knew that these societies of Gaul and Spain had their own rules and virtues , and he described them with obvious sympathy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Did he do anything with these ? |
| 19 | He lifted it with both hands to take a bite , glancing wistfully at his cigarette in the ashtray . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He received me with grave courtesy and enquired after my family . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's the heavens rejoicing , ’ he told her with firm surety . |
| 23 | Awfully cold , ’ he told her with malicious pleasure . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's what one does to necks , ’ he told her with mock menace . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office . |
| 27 | ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness . |
| 28 | He ate it with some biscuits , getting it down fast , his face close to the plate , his fork-hand hooking round to beat illness to the punch . |
| 29 | He kills it eventually , he shoots it with this like hypodermic pistol to try to put it to sleep and it just explodes ! |
| 30 | Acting in conjunction with the king so far as the details of the meeting were concerned , he prepared everything with great care . |