Example sentences of "[pers pn] with his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he regaled me with his adventures on the road , I began to feel more normal . |
| 2 | The Secretary of State for Energy , Mr Nigel Lawson , had not fooled them with his praise for the fast reactor two days earlier ; for his action , to delay the work all but indefinitely , spoke louder than his words . |
| 3 | He was waiting for them with his barge by the first footbridge over the canal as they came down from the moor . |
| 4 | I have seen him with his girls in the fields , and when he knows I am watching he kisses them . |
| 5 | He was not the clear favourite for the Oval Office , for there were other men whose achievements were more palpable than George Crowninshield 's , but he looked good , sounded better and no journalist had ever discovered him with his fingers in the till or his legs in the wrong bed . |
| 6 | ‘ Had n't Meredith-Lee found him with his hands in the till ? ’ |
| 7 | As he scrambled awkwardly to his feet , he switched the knife to his right hand and clawed behind him with his left for the pistol 's butt . |
| 8 | B — can not get loose and seems to be choking and the crowd are on their feet yelling and waving their hands — the referee helped by both seconds manages to extricate B — but P — grabs him , a quick aeroplane spin , gets him with his left hand round the shoulder , right hand through his left , swings him three times round in the air and pins him with his shoulders on the floor for the count of three . |
| 9 | Wee Rory , he had said — he had shocked her with his knowledge of the name — was connected to the terror men , he now had concrete evidence . |
| 10 | He kept Kelly amused with a string of stories about his life as a bookmaker , and then surprised her with his knowledge concerning the world 's fifteen million refugees . |
| 11 | Her brother sat opposite her with his back to the door devouring hunks of bread smothered with a mixture of peanut-butter and strawberry jam . |
| 12 | He had wanted the part of the young boy who could n't make it with his date in the first play , but he was a juvenile no more and Peter Shaffer had to convince him that it would n't work . |
| 13 | Greg mimed it with his fingers on the edge of the table and looked at Rose . |
| 14 | Peter Duncan has a background in acrobatics and he certainly needed it with his interpretation of the little tramp . |
| 15 | Despite the lodging-house furniture , the room bore hallmarks of long individual occupation , Aranyos having impressed it with his stamp in the form of various ornaments , mostly of a military flavour . |
| 16 | They stood together in the kitchen — he with his back to the door , blocking her exit . |