Example sentences of "he [verb] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Comparing his grey frozen features with the carved stone angel beside the lectern , looking at the long lit-up scar , and the furrowed forehead as he wrestled with the difficult words , Daisy thought he did n't need to humble or prove himself any more . |
| 32 | He replied with the soothing remarks only to be expected from somebody who had no knowledge of this part of her life . |
| 33 | Asked whether clerics really could take authoritative decisions on issues such as oil production , he replied with the practised gestures of a man used to presenting arguments to the sceptical : ‘ Islam can solve all difficulties ; it was so in the past and it will be the same in the future . ’ |
| 34 | These feelings tend to be transitory but some patients remain psychologically disturbed for many years and , in a few psychological difficulties develop in the convalescent period which were not apparent during the acute episode.While these problems can sometimes be anticipated in hospital on the basis of the patient 's reaction to his illness , and any premorbid difficulties which he has encountered in the past , a better idea of his potential can be gained by following him during the convalescent period to observe how he copes with the various stresses and strains which he encounters during this time . |
| 35 | The Pitman yard , which has done so well in this race — one winner , a second and two thirds since 1983 — believe he will adapt to the unique Aintree fences , and as long as he copes with the first few , they feel he must go close . |
| 36 | He smiles with the familiar grin I know so well , but this time I see those eyes of loneliness , as if there 's something no-one could understand , hidden by his visage of cheerfulness . |
| 37 | He dispensed with the patriarchal rhetoric that de Gaulle had used to pamper a nation stuck in the miasma of post-occupation guilt . |
| 38 | The charges were eventually dropped after an investigation , but had he stayed with the Scots Guards his career would inevitably have been wrecked . |
| 39 | Primal Scream 's petty pilfering of dance rhythms turned into wholesale hijacking when they gave club deejay Andy Weatherall a cast-off riff to play with and he returned with the seductive bump and grind of ‘ Loaded ’ . |
| 40 | ‘ Because that 's the way it is with us , ’ he returned with the faintest of smiles . |
| 41 | He returned with the Prior and a young , red-haired man dressed in half-armour . |
| 42 | In Genet 's case it produced among other things Prisoner of Love , a record of the time he spent with the Black Panthers 's in the US and Palestinian soldiers in Jordan and Lebanon . |
| 43 | Haig had seen action in the Sudan in 1898 and at the Battle of Omdurman , where he served with the Egyptian cavalry . |
| 44 | he served with the Irish Guards before he volunteered for the Commandos , and you can be sure that he will have you playing that tune as often as possible , as long as you do n't play it around this H.Q , I do n't mind . ’ |
| 45 | He served with the 3rd Battalion of the Scots Guards during the war , but finally , in 1947 , he was able to fulfil his long-cherished ambition to savour company life . |
| 46 | He served with the Parliamentary army as a chaplain on two occasions , although he also disapproved of putting the king to death . |
| 47 | During the war he served with the Royal Navy Combined Operations in the Far East before working as an overseas executive for Fison 's . |
| 48 | Throughout the war , he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps and his appointments included Deputy Director of Pathology in the Central Mediterranean Force and later DDP in South-East Asia . |
| 49 | He brushed with the same dead regard the face of the man his agents were still seeking in the matter of the Leicester treason , and Brother John gazed back at him earnestly and impartially , and was moved to distant pity . |
| 50 | ‘ Wrote to each other for a while , ’ he echoed with the same derisive twist to his mouth . |
| 51 | With rapture and relief he elides with the larger unit , the glowing mass . |
| 52 | He stuck with the difficult business of painting , and with a difficult set of non-rules to follow . |
| 53 | In fact , he finished with the best weight , a 1lb 15oz haul of Dace . |
| 54 | He worked with the bovine strain , but confirmed his positive findings with virulent human organisms . |
| 55 | During the war of 1914–18 he worked with the Royal Army Medical Corps as a psychiatrist in hospitals , including Craiglockhart , for shell-shocked soldiers . |
| 56 | Macijauskas himself is from the second city and former capital , Kaunas which is where he worked with the local branch of the society , won some competitions and became a newspaper reporter . |
| 57 | Gratefully , I enlist his help ; he confers with the various spokesmen with charm , patience and a magic defusing device called being The Boss . |
| 58 | Vologsky kept the power steady as he coped with the familiar , yet always unnerving , transition from sub-to supersonic flight . |
| 59 | He started with the upper reaches of government and the bureaucracy . |
| 60 | He started with the top dealer who specialized in Fabergé and Russian works of art . |