Example sentences of "he [conj] [pers pn] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should be helped to recognise that racism is a reality in society and that , although they can not protect the child from it , they can prepare him or her to deal with it when it is encountered . |
| 2 | It was recorded of him that he sang with the monks in the divine offices ; when taunted by the king for his clerkly tastes , he responded that an illiterate king was a crowned ass ( a cliché much favoured in twelfth-century Angevin circles , for it sprang from a sense of family superiority — the counts of Anjou were , by any standards , learned men ) . |
| 3 | He looks up at his direct opposite Martin and then adds , ‘ Secretly I agree with him and he agrees with me , and we both agree to differ … |
| 4 | He looks up at his direct opposite Martin and then adds , ‘ Secretly I agree with him and he agrees with me , and we both agree to differ … |
| 5 | A stage-hand upset him and he replied with a withering flow of invective , the kind for which he was not generally known . |
| 6 | One Bible passage says : ‘ If you seek the Lord your God , you will find him if you look with all your heart and with all your soul . ’ |
| 7 | We have a son , aged 15 , and he says it would be more convenient for him if he stayed with his father . |
| 8 | This is the spirit of truth whom the world can not receive because it does not know him , does not behold him or know him , but you know him because he abides with you and will be in you . |
| 9 | His latest play , David Henry Hwang 's M. Butterfly , which began its national tour in Bath this week , attracted him because it deals with the questions of sexual roles and masculine/feminine identity which he has been exploring through his men 's group for the past 18 months . |
| 10 | She had told him a tale , looking slyly at him while she played with his left hand . |
| 11 | I used to look after him while he played with his favourite toys . |
| 12 | That afternoon ( it was all on a Sunday ) he saw Chamberlain , and having directly asked him whether he agreed with the others and having received an affirmative answer , told him to call a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet for the following day at which he would say goodbye . |
| 13 | Jenna looked across at him as they sat with their coffee in the sitting-room that still bore the signs of her mother 's impeccable taste . |
| 14 | Her terrified eyes gazed at him as she stood with his back to her , both hands braced against the door , staring at the ground between his feet . |
| 15 | He responded to my curiosity concerning the transmutation of metals by allowing me to assist him as he experimented with his alembic and his aludel . |
| 16 | In January 1858 an attempt was made to assassinate him as he drove with the Empress to the Opera in Paris . |
| 17 | Benjamin and I stayed well away from him as he consulted with Dacourt and Clinton . |
| 18 | Frederica studied him as he dealt with the roasting-pans . |
| 19 | Uncle Ted had done absolutely nothing since the day Dad exorcized him as he sat with a record-player in his lap . |
| 20 | Charles was only ever jealous of him when he served with some distinction as a helicopter pilot during the Falklands war . |
| 21 | ‘ What you going to do with a degree in history ? ’ his mother asked him when he graduated with a first . |
| 22 | It is for the individual to do what he or she likes with it . |
| 23 | Or attempt to explore with a Central European Jew the precise nature of the ties that he or she feels with a culture which down the centuries has been responsible for so much persecution and pain . |
| 24 | The researcher , unfortunately , has the same problems with testing this hypothesis , despite its greater precision , as he or she has with the grander ones . |
| 25 | Generally , the approach in this initiative is based on the conviction that the primary and most basic interface between the individual and the social world is to be found in the day to day transactions he or she has with other individuals . |
| 26 | Thus the examples of ( 9 ) are acceptable : ( 9 ) your behaviour was barbaric this device is expensive his plan was inspired but impractical Where a prenominal adjective fits equally well with either relationship — ascriptive or associative — to its noun , we find that its occurrence in predicative position is acceptable , but only provided that the relation is taken as being ascriptive ; thus ( 10 ) mentions an individual who either has Greek nationality ( but the nature and region of the business which he or she deals with remain unspecified ) , or is a person who handles affairs connected with Greece ( but who may well be of some quite different nationality , Belgian for example ) ; ( 11 ) however unambiguously tells us that there is someone who falls into the former category : ( 10 ) the Greek representative ( 11 ) the representative is Greek |
| 27 | In fact ( the myth persists ) , even if the slim person does not especially like these foods , he or she sticks with them for a large part of the time in order to maintain a trim figure . |