Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have of late had two letters from him , in which he has shown such an easy and familiar way of expressing his thoughts , such a delight for improvement and so much exactness and dilligence in the making of observations that I look upon him to go onward with a curiosity and genious superior to most of his occupation . |
| 2 | This was geared to helping him to behave likewise with a failing pupil , so that both he and the child had less need to make others feel useless . |
| 3 | His albums ‘ Travels ’ , ‘ Still Life Talking ’ and ‘ Offramp ’ have all seen him walk away with a guitar case full of awards . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd always had a fantasy about living with an artist and waking up in the morning and him standing there with a canvas . |
| 5 | He jerked forward with a start to find the hostess fingering with his seat-belt clasp . |
| 6 | She sat down beside him , instinctively putting her arm out to support him , but he jerked forward with a sharp gasp , and she saw the brown lines of dried blood across the back of his shirt . |
| 7 | He joked briefly with a woman in a lilac cardigan at a desk . |
| 8 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 9 | That would explain why his victims all stayed in bed as he blasted away with a handgun in the luxury , ranch-style home near San Diego , California . |
| 10 | All these people — ’ he gestured wildly with a carpet roll of arm — ‘ they imagine that they perceive what is really there but they do n't . |
| 11 | AN ESSEX motorist turned his car into a fireball when he lit a cigarette as he drove home with a gallon can of petrol on the seat beside him . |
| 12 | He turned away with a groan and thumped the mantle of the fireplace with his hand . |
| 13 | He turned away with a dismissive , impatient gesture . |
| 14 | She met his eyes steadily , and after a moment he turned away with a sigh . |
| 15 | Whether or not he was altogether comfortable in such a role is another matter ; when Lawrence Durrell once suggested to him that he was not a Christian at all but more like a Buddhist or a primitive he replied only with a question , " Perhaps they have n't found me out yet ? " |
| 16 | He stepped away with a smile . |
| 17 | He stepped aside with a flourish and , after a moment 's hesitation , Hari removed the cloth from her basket and took out the satin slippers . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll make time , ’ he threatened softly with a half-smile that sent shivers of delight along her spine . |
| 19 | This vulnerability increased during 1990 and the first half of 1991 as he grappled unsuccessfully with a series of complex problems [ for his replacement in October 1991 see pp. 38528-29 ; 38558 ] . |
| 20 | ‘ Scheduling , ’ he repeated blandly with a patience that did n't fool her for an instant . |
| 21 | Only hope she does n't end up looking like her dad , he thought sometimes with a rich inner guffaw . |
| 22 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 23 | He went home with a single man whose mantelpiece was crowded with framed family photos — partners , holidays , weddings , babies , graduations , christenings ; the man ( who was gorgeous ) told Boy that he worked in a photo processing lab , and that none of the photos were of his own family or lovers , but were all stolen . |
| 24 | He went home with a man who made love to him very violently on the living room floor , wanting to fuck Boy face down on the floor , and straight away , without any kissing ; the floor was covered with scraps of glittering sequined fabrics . |
| 25 | He went home with a man who had wallpapered his living room with seven hundred copies of the cover of a Sunday colour magazine showing a white-skinned 22-year-old Glaswegian photographed wearing the second , whiter skin of a gymnast 's leotard ; his hands and wrists were also powdered dead white . |
| 26 | He was painfully aware of being an exile in a land he did not understand , and he reacted occasionally with a kind of jingoistic longing for England . |
| 27 | Was it because life itself is a battle and Hatton had waged it with unscrupulous weapons , winning rich spoils and falling as he marched home with a song on his lips ? |
| 28 | The small foreign person was walking as jauntily as ever , though Bramble realized that he did so with a pronounced limp . |
| 29 | When he lowered Grainne on to the pile of thick fur rugs before the fire , he was trembling , but when he stood up and began to unfasten his own clothes , he did so with a calm sureness and a gentle authority . |
| 30 | He did so with a short birdie putt on the last hole . |