Example sentences of "he [vb past] with the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I could , ’ he agreed with the forbidding smile still on his face . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There he met with the first Dragon Prince of Caledor , Caledor Dragontamer , greatest of the High Mages of old . |
| 6 | Jones ' best data did not exist until 1989 ; by the time that he met with the two chemists he had measured ‘ run number 6 ’ ( see Figure 4 , page 69 ) which is shown in his paper as the most dramatic signal and which proved to the BYU team 's satisfaction that they were right . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He fought with the Eighth Army and was mentioned in dispatches when he shot down a German plane with a machine-gun he had captured from an Italian plane . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | He moved with the mechanical lope of hydraulic-assisted legs . |
| 13 | He had ( like Davy in the previous generation ) risen by his professional competence to a position where he mingled with the eminent , like W. E. Gladstone , the Prince Consort and Samuel Wilberforce . |
| 14 | There is now only the one pool , which he designed with the specific purpose of encouraging Koi-keepers with limited space . |
| 15 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 16 | From the early 1820s onwards he also designed a number of churches in a conventional Gothic style , but in some of his later works , such as his alterations to Broughton Hall , Yorkshire ( 1838–41 ) and Flasby Hall , Yorkshire ( 1840 ) he experimented with the picturesque Italianate manner . |
| 17 | And he came with the highest recommendations , from Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl . ’ |
| 18 | It was a favourite of his , because he identified with the third line of its first verse — He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword . |
| 19 | Mozart wrote music so he could buy himself velvet trousers and Shakespeare got up to write a play every day because he needed to live like the rest of us , ’ he added with the disarming arrogance that had established him as one-third of pop 's most hated team . |
| 20 | He painted with the meticulous craft of the Elizabethan limner in a style derived from the elaborate concoctions of mannerist court portraiture ; a style soon to be swept away by the tide of the baroque brought to England from Flanders by Rubens and Sir Anthony Van Dyck [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | If he trumped with the 6 or 10 , he would be over-trumped and his second trump trick would vanish . |
| 22 | He conferred with the Anglican Bishop ( who had been in the same Japanese POW camp as he ) ; and spent hours with a crowd of young Rhodesians , black and white , who are now in action with us . |
| 23 | Much of his later work , achieved under the shadow of inexorably crippling and ultimately fatal illness , which he faced with the utmost fortitude , was latterly facilitated by the research fellowship conferred on him by All Souls in 1954 . |
| 24 | ‘ Novantaquattro ’ Ludovico groaned , as he wrestled with the huge lock . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He replied with the soothing remarks only to be expected from somebody who had no knowledge of this part of her life . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | He dispensed with the patriarchal rhetoric that de Gaulle had used to pamper a nation stuck in the miasma of post-occupation guilt . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Because that 's the way it is with us , ’ he returned with the faintest of smiles . |