Example sentences of "he [verb] 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 | However , when the first violin takes up the theme of the lullaby high up in its register , he plays with a pure sweetness that makes him sound like a luminous voice in the distance . |
| 3 | Increasingly , he realised with a certain satisfaction that this was a family of shame and scandal . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ If you say so , ’ he drawled with a smug expression . |
| 6 | ‘ And what exactly , ’ he drawled with a hard smile , ‘ has your uncle told you about me ? ’ |
| 7 | He glowed with a rich and handsome flush of compassion . |
| 8 | No one is safe from suspicion — let alone the audience on whom he turns with an accusatory stare . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course , ’ he agreed with a wide grin . |
| 11 | ‘ If I have to , ’ he agreed with a cool arrogance that utterly appalled her . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ he agreed with a bitter little smile . |
| 13 | ‘ No , ’ he agreed with a wicked smile . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I could , ’ he agreed with the forbidding smile still on his face . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He goes with a big girl called Cathy . |
| 18 | The cheerfulness with which Rose greeted him he met with a deep reserve . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In a remarkably frank interview , Coppell confronted the troubles he faces after eight years at Selhurst Park , and said he agrees with the inevitable consequence should he be unable to pass the biggest test of his career . |
| 23 | He agrees with an unnamed British soldier that there were two wars being fought — against the designated enemy and against the army . |
| 24 | And he rode with a jewelled twinkle , |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He realized with a vicious clarity that he had never considered the possibility of discovery . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm dog-tired after that trek this afternoon , ’ he announced with a brief compassionate glance at Sarella . |