Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry was going to add a chapter towards the end of The Complete History of Wimbledon in which he planned to deal with the failure of nerve he sensed in the place . |
| 2 | He became impressed with the superiority of the French and Belgian kite-balloons over his own spherical type , reported accordingly to the Admiralty , and was promptly recalled to initiate kite-balloon training at Roehampton in March 1915 . |
| 3 | However , he became embittered with age , losing his fine looks and noble habits , and becoming a surly , cob-webbed ghost who lived in dark caves . |
| 4 | As a member of the wealthy middle class , Darwin had a social position that he might well forfeit if he became identified with the supposedly atheistical concept of transmutation . |
| 5 | Later he became associated with a Christian denomination known as the Collegiants . |
| 6 | Through Colquhoun and MacBryde , who were receiving patronage from two sisters who lived in Lewes , Mrs Frances Byng Stamper and Caroline Byng Lucas , he became associated with the Society of London Painters-Printers which set up in 1948 , in conjunction with the Redfern Gallery . |
| 7 | Yet Walker also knew that railways were no longer omnipotent ; he became associated with the Great Western Railway in running a coach service to the west and acquired for his company a financial interest in Imperial Airways . |
| 8 | At court he became associated with the faction led by George Digby , second Earl of Bristol , and Henry Bennett , first Earl of Arlington [ qq.v. ] , and friendly with the king 's mistress , Barbara Villiers , Countess of Castlemaine [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | In 1579 , he was appointed Justice of the Peace for Kent and during this time he became associated with Sir John Leveson of Whornes Place who later became his close friend . |
| 10 | Reid 's star began to rise with a vengeance last year when he became associated with the stable of Peter Chapple-Hyam who provided him with the horse every jockey wants to have — a Derby winner . |
| 11 | Much in demand for stage and film productions , he became associated with the early musicals of Lloyd Webber and his then partner Tim Rice in the 1970s . |
| 12 | Beginning with the organisation of bible classes in the rural communities while he was still a student at Cumberland University , he became disillusioned with the apparent inability of the current educational system to tackle adequately the problems of social and economic mis-development in Appalachia . |
| 13 | Membership of the advisory committee on education in the colonies ( 1940–3 ) confirmed his preoccupation with ‘ the ‘ emergent ’ African who must be the architect of the future' ; but , as British Council representative in West Africa ( 1943–5 ) , he became disillusioned with ‘ the nearly highbrow ’ . |
| 14 | It also led to his enjoying a considerable reputation on the Continent , where he became acquainted with leading intellectuals such as Marin Mersenne , Pierre Gassendi , and Rene Descartes . |
| 15 | During this time he became acquainted with John Ray , the great English naturalist , and Robert Boyle , the philosopher , both of whom gave help and encouragement to the young man . |
| 16 | In addition , he became acquainted with Preston Goodfellow , who at this time worked for the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) ; Goodfellow played an important if opaque role in advancing Rhee 's career in 1945–46 . |
| 17 | Sukarno was sent to Surabaya , where he experienced loneliness and sought shelter in the Theosophical Society library where he became acquainted with the great Europeans from Rousseau to Marx . |
| 18 | He became acquainted with Oliver ‘ Babe ’ Hardy in the early 1920s , but it was 1927 , under the auspices of the Hal Roach studio , before they were first paired with any success . |
| 19 | By a happy chance he became acquainted with ( Sir ) Edward Burne-Jones [ q.v. ] and his circle , through whom he also met William Morris [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | Gertrude Stein , too , wrote in her book on Picasso : ‘ Upon his return from Gosol he became acquainted with Matisse through whom he came to know African sculpture . ’ |
| 21 | But he failed to persevere with his invention ; nor was the era of relatively abundant labour supply and of machine-breaking propitious for its development , whereas McCormick perfected his reaper at a time favourable to its adoption by farmers in North America and Europe . |
| 22 | Now I remember another chap , he got done with a pothole . |
| 23 | He got spoiled with Mrs Sargent always buying him things and everyone letting him do what he wanted . |
| 24 | It was something that he and I talked about over a two-year period , and then he got hit with throat cancer a little over a year ago . |
| 25 | When he arrived he got talking with someone of about his age , who had also run away from home . |
| 26 | There 's a technique in nuclear physics , called neutron activation , which allows you to measure quantities of trace very small quantities of particular elements in materials and it 's been applied to looking at the concentration of arsenic in Napoleon 's hair , and you find that there are particular periods in his life when he got dosed with arsenic_ one 's not quite sure how — and at those particular times he was erm very ill ; it correlates very well with the historical evidence . |
| 27 | He admitted driving with excess alcohol but said he should n't be banned . |
| 28 | As he sought to negotiate with Aguinaldo , Florendo , the director of the civil relations office of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and a former friend of Aguinaldo , was taken hostage along with three other members of the arresting party . |
| 29 | We got the Jet Ski onto its trailer but William 's Merc was one of the cars trapped on the slip ; he tried to reason with the BMW people , then sat in the car and sulked . |
| 30 | He tried to reason with her . |