Example sentences of "him with [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day as breakfast was being served , the team gave the tiny winger a standing ovation , greeting him with a rousing chorus of the old bar-room classic What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor ? |
| 2 | It was as if she had shot him with a tranquillising dart . |
| 3 | The Southampton central defenders left it to Flowers — but Goddard 's challenge won him the ball and left him with a simple chance . |
| 4 | The man looked at him with a kindly face . |
| 5 | They were made of metal and this presented him with a major problem . |
| 6 | In the Commons he seldom spoke , but in 1842 , after the Treaty of Nanking had secured Hong Kong and opened five new ‘ treaty ports ’ , Palmerston , who had relied heavily on his advice , credited him with a major role in the success of British policy toward China . |
| 7 | And then Jimmy straightened , stepped quickly forward and grabbed Duvall 's arm … headbutting him with a loud smack ! |
| 8 | Far from slaking his thirst , all his weekend with her had done was whet his appetite and leave him with a desperate craving for more . |
| 9 | She looked at him with a challenging stare . |
| 10 | I am grateful for that because it enables me to provide him with a fuller response on those points than I might otherwise have been able to do . |
| 11 | Wycliffe looked at him with a vague expression . |
| 12 | Its pleasing shape — like an almond-stone sliced open — the cliffs of wall to the south , the serenity of the lake , the promise of richness in the meadows beyond the lake , moved him with a mysterious sense of homecoming based on an unmistakable sensation of security . |
| 13 | She looked at him with a tiny frown but said nothing . |
| 14 | One of the men who most attracts him , Mubarak , is also one whose sexuality is most self-conscious , withdrawn , and complicated ; Mubarak 's masculinity is itself strung out across difference : he is a Sudanese African in Asia , and fighting for a people whom he does not understand and who regard him with a racist indifference ( pp. 194 — 5 ) ; he speaks perfect French , but with a Parisian urban working-class accent . |
| 15 | This , according to Wolfgang , would have distinct advantages : it would provide him with a legal outlet for the ‘ voice of nature ’ , which he swore he had never yet indulged , being too honourable either to seduce innocent girls or have dealings with prostitutes ; and a wife would be able to tend his domestic needs — he admitted he was no good at looking after himself . |
| 16 | The first chance fell to Barlaston 's Brooks , who hesitated on the edge of the penalty area allowing Devall to deny him with a crucial tackle . |
| 17 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were mysteriously , elusively compounded of plumed candle flame , drumming rain , a ship held by ice , huddled sheep , and a malignant shadow stooped-muttering over a desk or table or bench in a room or a cell he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |
| 18 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were elusively compounded of dank , dripping trees , dazzling headlights , stairways , huddled sheep , a ship held by ice mast-high , and a sick man with skin blotched with words gibbering upon a bed in a room in a house he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |
| 19 | The priest measured him with a pitying look . |
| 20 | He looked as though a cannonball had hit him amidships and left him with a hollow chest and a permanent arch in his back . |
| 21 | She felt as distant from Dada as on that faraway teatime when he had turned down Dora 's Dolls ' House in favour of his photograph album though now she thought of him with a gentle benevolence , the distance between them was changeless . |
| 22 | He saw Wycliffe and acknowledged him with a timid gesture . |
| 23 | She eyed him with a roguish smile . |
| 24 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
| 25 | It was a large black dog with large orb-like eyes gazing up at him with a malevolent gaze . |
| 26 | The Court of Appeal decision left him with a two-year term to complete . |
| 27 | She savaged him with a vicious scowl . |
| 28 | In addition , registration operates to protect the security holder by providing him with a certain degree of protection as to the validity and priority of his charge once it is registered ; this in turn benefits the company by enabling it to give the chargee the guarantee of such protection . |
| 29 | She pushed a dark lock of hair back off her forehead , and looked up at him with a certain defiance . |
| 30 | Like Paul , he had trained for the law in youth , and it had left him with a certain accuracy . |