Example sentences of "he [vb past] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He was tall , very fair , reasonably attractive , and when he made with the charm at hospital parties they lapped it up .
2 The American conductor John Canarina also pointed out that in a performance he attended at Tanglewood in 1965 and in a recording he made with the Chicago Symphony , Munch made two cuts between figs. 110 and 128 ( in the Durand score ) .
3 He lived with a farmer at Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire , but in 1785 the farmer died and soon afterwards Peter died too .
4 He received parish supplementation , even though he lived with a clay worker son , a bachelor on 10s ( 50p ) a week .
5 The trouble for Rubberneck , he lived with a fanatic , he had not the gift .
6 Franz Xaver , only six months old when his father died , was later sent to study music in Prague , where he lived with the Dušeks .
7 For quite some time he lived with the expectation that he was going to die .
8 Harvey led me to a room which he unlocked with a key .
9 Furthermore a trader will be able to use , as a complete defence , evidence that in the relevant respect , he complied with the requirements of safety regulations or any approved standard of safety .
10 He realised with a sense of desperation that he would have to be twice as cunning as his wife if he was to recover that which she had taken from him .
11 He realised with a shock that he was nervous — as nervous as a randy adolescent on a hot date — and likely to be about as subtle !
12 He realised with a flash of almost ludicrous detachment that the hand that was trying to grasp him was now fully formed , and was the one that he had cut the fingers off when slamming the steel door .
13 Now he checked with the policeman whose beat took him down Glenfair Road , the main thoroughfare into which Boundary Drive ran ; The list of car numbers he had noted that evening for one reason or another was unproductive .
14 ‘ Let us say that for you , and your beautiful green eyes , ’ he inserted with a sincerity that made her heart stop , ‘ I will think about it . ’
15 ‘ Well , Mr Carlton — ma'am , ’ he drawled with a nod to Christina , ‘ it seems we got a lickle problem here .
16 ‘ Oh , I see , ’ he drawled with a touch of cool insolence .
17 ‘ Dear , dear , your highness , ’ he drawled with no attempt to hide the sarcasm in his voice , ‘ did I hit a soft spot ? ’
18 He registered with a G.P. near his London home who contacted his District Health Authority who readily agreed to finance his brain operation as an extra contractual referral , and surgery was carried out within a short space of time .
19 At about the same time he began buying copyrights : the first book to bear his imprint was an edition of Horace 's Lyrics , published in 1653 ; the first copyright he registered with the Stationers ' Company was a translation by Sir Kenelm Digby [ q.v. ] of Albert the Great 's Treatise Adhering to God , entered 19 September 1653 .
20 He registered with the DSS and filled in all the forms .
21 He toyed with the possibility of a think-tank .
22 He toyed with the idea of creating a little angst in her life to slow her down .
23 He toyed with the idea of telling her she was n't woman enough for him , but decided not to .
24 He toyed with the idea of holding Eleanor 's hand and getting romantic .
25 He toyed with the idea of reading in the drawing room , but he could hear one of the junior maids moving about in there and decided to go back up to his room instead .
26 He toyed with the envelope for a couple of seconds , then thrust it back to the bottom of the pile .
27 He toyed with the time of Munich , the decisions and failures to decide that had made the world he lived in .
28 When Jack London described the ‘ move-on ’ confrontations that he experienced with the police in both the Metropolitan capital and in Chicago , he was documenting the normal encounter between the residents of the streets and the patrolling officer .
29 He consulted with the crematorium to find out that his 15-stone frame would leave 4lbs of ashes .
30 Later he agreed with a sub-purchaser to sell him a similar cargo at 19s. per ton .
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