Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] with [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Nick is ju erm is young and because he associates him with all these dangerous ideas , in genetic engineering and so on , he feels threatened by him . |
| 2 | He read it with less pleasure … |
| 3 | He covers it with both hands . |
| 4 | He lifted it with both hands to take a bite , glancing wistfully at his cigarette in the ashtray . |
| 5 | Here , when Jacob meets his own brother , he meets him with all the courtly ceremony with which petty vassal princes used to greet their Pharaoh . |
| 6 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
| 7 | He ate it with some biscuits , getting it down fast , his face close to the plate , his fork-hand hooking round to beat illness to the punch . |
| 8 | He kills it eventually , he shoots it with this like hypodermic pistol to try to put it to sleep and it just explodes ! |
| 9 | He studied her with those incredibly gorgeous blue eyes , filled with charm and love , darkness and intelligence , sex appeal and strength . |
| 10 | But Rochester did er did er , when he was trying to rebuke himself for committing what was bigamy , and the works , he said , when he compared his own wife , who was really a mental animal because she very bestial the way she bit people , and then , he compared her with this sweet , dewy-eyed Jane , he did give a reason did n't he ? |
| 11 | It seemed odd that he loathed her with such intensity and yet had made a pass at her . |
| 12 | He returned it with this comment : ‘ I have never been to a Wesleyan school nor been at the bottom of my form ! ' |
| 13 | He threatened me with this throughout the examination period and until the day I actually left home . |
| 14 | And he takes us , bad bargain that we are poor and miserable that we were , with nothing seemingly positive to offer , he takes us bag and baggage , he takes us with all our sin , with all our failure , with all our mistakes , he takes us with all that is , th th the clutters of our lives , he says you 're mine now . |
| 15 | He was most terribly afraid of the ferret , but he loved it with all his heart . |
| 16 | He repeated it with some commentary in an issue of the Times Educational Supplement . |
| 17 | Then he hit him with all his strength and knocked him to the ground . |
| 18 | His skill at hunting living prey increased each day until he could stoop on a hare from half a mile away , judging its path and speeding his attack so that he hit it with such force that it was dead before his talons fully closed on it . |
| 19 | For a long time Roe has harboured a desire to do some commentating so when he had the chance at the European he took it with both hands . |
| 20 | ‘ You remember how angry Alain became when he saw me with that book ? ’ she said . |
| 21 | ‘ He telephoned to tell me about it … he was very angry when he saw you with that book and I could tell that he had said things he should not have said . ’ |
| 22 | I am bound to say that his personality and his voice with his Glasgow accent were a little disconcerting at first ( I felt rather as if I were being addressed by my highly educated carpenter ) , but he inspired me with such confidence as he went on that I forgot that , and of course one has to recognise that a new era in political life has dawned for England , the old aristocratic school is practically swept out of it , it is the dawn of the new " regime " . |
| 23 | ‘ When I was a kid , my Dad was into Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin , so he tainted me with all that , then I got into the punk thing when that was going down . |
| 24 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |
| 25 | You would n't call it the best buildup you ever seen and after a little bit of scrappy play which Pisa failed to get the ball away , it fell inviting on the edge of the area , and he struck it with all the confidence and aplomb a a player who 's been planting 'em in the back of the net all season . |
| 26 | He greeted them with some impatience . |
| 27 | It was worthwhile , though — not only did he make me feel young and raunchy again , he left me with enough self-esteem to believe in my capabilities as a single mother . ’ |
| 28 | When God in his wisdom chose not to bless women with the same convenient appendage through which men pass water , he left them with little choice but to strip off and squat . |
| 29 | He held her with those ice-blue pools for what seemed an eternity , draining her resistance , mesmerising her . |
| 30 | He silenced her with more kisses as he tried to remind himself that this young girl was not only innocent but trusted herself to his care ; that her father trusted him , and however uninhibited she might now appear to be , he must not abuse that faith . |