Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't expected him to greet her with ecstatic joy — his emotions were n't extreme like Lowell 's thankfully — but neither had she expected a degree of embarrassment . |
| 2 | Looking up with a gasp , she saw him watching her with narrowed blue eyes , his mouth a hard line . |
| 3 | When he came across the bodies in the middle of Gayton village , he found one with broken legs , but still alive . |
| 4 | He regarded her with ironic eyes , his lips a little pursed . |
| 5 | He regarded her with lazy , sleepy eyes and said : |
| 6 | He regarded her with total disbelief . |
| 7 | While he regarded her with evident interest , she searched her mind . |
| 8 | He regarded her with calculated interest . |
| 9 | He regarded her with undisguised affection . |
| 10 | He bore himself with great dignity , and not a little humour , but he was disappointed to the innermost core . |
| 11 | Christine fought for her balance as he grasped her with hooked fingers . |
| 12 | The ultimate synthesis of a design was never revealed in a flash ; rather he approached it with infinite precautions , stalking it , as it were , now from one point of view , now from another , and always in fear lest a premature definition might deprive it of something of its total complexity . |
| 13 | He knew that these societies of Gaul and Spain had their own rules and virtues , and he described them with obvious sympathy . |
| 14 | HE WOOED her with skew-whiff quotes from Shakespeare , pranced about in Chelsea football kit — minus the shorts — then bedded her on a futon with all the stamina of an 18-year-old . |
| 15 | He received me with grave courtesy and enquired after my family . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's the heavens rejoicing , ’ he told her with firm surety . |
| 17 | Awfully cold , ’ he told her with malicious pleasure . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's what one does to necks , ’ he told her with mock menace . |
| 19 | He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office . |
| 20 | ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness . |
| 21 | Acting in conjunction with the king so far as the details of the meeting were concerned , he prepared everything with great care . |
| 22 | He studied her with hooded blue eyes . |
| 23 | He studied her with narrowed eyes , then brushed a cool palm across her forehead to smooth the frown imprinted there . |
| 24 | He studied her with narrowed eyes . |
| 25 | He studied her with glittering eyes , his face darkly flushed . |
| 26 | He studied it with growing distaste . |
| 27 | He endowed it with vast lands and rights , including tithes of silver and other rights of tribute from the Slavs . |
| 28 | ‘ You are looking at a genuinely reformed character , ’ he assured her with soft intensity , his gaze darkening as his eyes roved hungrily over her flushed cheeks , then down to the open neck of her checked blouse where her breasts were crushed against his chest . |
| 29 | And then his mouth fell to hers and he consumed her with hungry possession . |
| 30 | He had been so gentle , controlling his own need while he readied her with exquisite subtlety and patience . |