Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even those he tried to establish with office girls seemed to founder fairly rapidly . |
| 2 | A county member in 1625 , he proposed to break with precedent by granting the new king tunnage and poundage for one year only . |
| 3 | Yes , and then my father , when he had recovered a bit , he came to live with Grandma . |
| 4 | Then suddenly he seemed to explode with anger . |
| 5 | He began to whimper with fear . |
| 6 | Lowe liked crunching numbers anyway , but as his figures skittered across the rubbery keys of the calculator , he began to gasp with amazement . |
| 7 | Yanto could n't help it , he began to hoot with laughter . |
| 8 | ( i ) He gave Gen McCreery the authorization he required to negotiate with Tolbukhin for the hand-over of the Cossacks ( although he referred to these , somewhat imprecisely , as " all Russians " ) . |
| 9 | At 15 , he started to dabble with heroin and within 12 months he was using it daily . |
| 10 | He started to bellow with mirth . |
| 11 | Undeterred by his early disasters , he decided to persevere with photography by first learning as much about it as he possible could . |
| 12 | So he managed to compete with success . |
| 13 | Here he continued to experiment with seismograph design , while ( as joint secretary of the seismological committee of the British Association ) co-ordinating the reporting of earthquakes in observatories throughout the world . |
| 14 | He wanted to shout with relief . |
| 15 | He wanted to shout with glee and with despair , both together , locked in the birth-pain of this love . |
| 16 | But he was haunted from an early age by anxiety and depression , which he attempted to quell with sherry . |
| 17 | But pale eyes often held a far-away look which he tended to associate with insanity . |