Example sentences of "he [vb past] with [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith was still gasping at his audacity as well as at his discernment when , flicking a glance at the way her chestnut hair was fastened in a repressive knot , he inserted with another glance at her severe hairstyle , ‘ Now why would a beautiful woman , with equally beautiful hair , try to hide her beauty behind glasses which she clearly does n't need , try to minimise the beauty of her splendid hair , and also try to detract attention from what I clearly recall is a figure of delightful shape and proportions ? ’ |
| 2 | He agreed with that proposition and stated : The reason is that the third party recipient may be subject to some additional and conflicting duty which does not affect the primary confidant or may not be subject to some special duty which does effect that confidant . |
| 3 | ‘ No , not at all , ’ he agreed with another twinkle . |
| 4 | ‘ Forgive me , my darling , ’ he requested with such charm that she was ready to lie down and die for him . |
| 5 | On his return from China on Dec. 30 Herzog stopped over in Kazakhstan when he met with that country 's President , Nursultan Nazarbayev . |
| 6 | Mayne personally , together with the patrols which he led with such skill and dash , almost certainly destroyed , during some fourteen months of constant raids from desert bases deep behind enemy lines , more aircraft than any fighter ace on either side in World War II . |
| 7 | Lynch in fact , directed only the pilot and one of the subsequent eight one-hour episodes , turning the scripts he co-wrote with former Hill Street Blues man Mark Frost over to guest directors including Tim Hunter ( River 's Edge ) and Caleb Deschanel ( Crusoe ) . |
| 8 | He also had to be the grey-haired , elderly , exhausted Chaplin , which he conveyed with much sympathy . |
| 9 | ‘ Which is perhaps why you can come to Czechoslovakia for a holiday alone , a working holiday , ’ he qualified with some charm . |
| 10 | Even his job , the territory where he moved with most assurance , was hedged with anxiety . |
| 11 | His business today includes course architecture and not , it seems , teaching the game he played with such flair . |
| 12 | I did n't much like them , but I realized he played with some mastery . |
| 13 | Deanes booking was a joke , he tangled with that git Hodges who had body-checked him . |
| 14 | As she wondered , in he came with more boxes of gear . |
| 15 | The only thing he recognised with any surety was intense desire , so intense that the vague awareness at the back of his mind of something wrong was stifled . |
| 16 | He painted with such intensity that the painting fell on his head as he leant forward to see me better . |
| 17 | He threw with such power that Mungo half expected his darts to go through the board and stick in the wall . |
| 18 | His twelve years of study and the roll call of the masters of Paris of his day — masters of grammar , logic and theology , professors from England and France and further afield — bear witness to the serious nature of the academic work in which he joined with such enthusiasm . |
| 19 | ‘ It would n't mean very much to me either , ’ he replied with some charm , and , while Fabia 's heart gave a most unexpected flutter , he promptly took charge of her problem and , pointing to a patch of ground a little way over to the right , instructed , ‘ Steer your car over there . |
| 20 | He saw mountains on the Moon ( very anti-Aristotle this ) , then satellites orbiting Jupiter , which he mapped with such accuracy that his orbital times are hardly different from those calculated today . |
| 21 | He fiddled with some notes . |
| 22 | Charles was only ever jealous of him when he served with some distinction as a helicopter pilot during the Falklands war . |
| 23 | He calculated that 10,000 women lost their lives annually due to this rite and he campaigned with many others for it to be banned . |
| 24 | This was not only because , in Walton 's words , his poems ‘ had comforted and raised many disjected and discomposed souls and charmed them into sweet and quiet thoughts ’ ; he was honoured too for his loyalty to the middle way between the excesses of Rome and the austerities of the Puritans , which he expressed with such affection in his poem ‘ The British Church ’ : |
| 25 | He leapt with both feet . |
| 26 | A founder-member of the Beebop Preservation Society in the 1970's , he recorded with former Charlie Parker partner , the trumpeter Red Rodney . |
| 27 | It is interesting that Golgi himself , who got the Nobel Prize in part for this work , did n't believe that there were individual neurons within the brain , preferring to think of it as a continuous network of fibres , and he persisted with this mistake despite the evidence of his own staining technique . |
| 28 | He called with another gentleman . |
| 29 | And then , finally , he talked with this woman , and he wants to talk with us because he wants to use us , he wanted to use her . |
| 30 | Good piece of work , Joe , he thought with some satisfaction , as she turned slowly on the wire . |