Example sentences of "with his [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 It 's time for him to match his maturity with his golf and realise he 's not going to win every time .
2 His horrible wont was to envelop his victim with his wings and suffocate him to death .
3 The summer of 1914 started very much like any other , with Chapman passing the long sunny days playing cricket and golf with his players and keeping them in trim for the coming season .
4 I tried to help him with his schedule and give him advice on exam technique .
5 I confess that I was completely hooked on Lincoln 's work , but like most other people I could not agree with his conclusions or refute them as I had no knowledge of Rennes-le-Chateau , its area or history .
6 He smoothed the paper with his fingers and gave it to her .
7 When I confront him with his omissions and lies he just looks sheepish .
8 Turning over the free endpaper to the next double page , we shall usually arrive at the first appearance of print , unless the publisher has been very free with his endpapers and given us some blanks .
9 Here they gathered some dry leaves and twigs , and Allen shredded a tinder-old branch with his knife and stuck it upright among the leaves .
10 He rested his spoon , patted his lips with his napkin and replaced it in his lap .
11 He is an " Oxbridge don " who gives a " somewhat fastidious impression " , a point which is almost immediately confirmed by the dramatic action when the stage directions tell us " ANDERSON dabs at his mouth with his napkin and puts it down " ( p. 43 ) .
12 Perhaps the Minister had had a row with his wife and to wound him she used my name .
13 He stepped over , pierced one of the raw chunks with his dagger and held it up before the mastiff .
14 She helps William Ernest with his reading and encourages him to stick up for himself at school .
15 Schumacher was delighted with his position and attributed it to an improvement in the traction control of the Benetton .
16 But his family persevered with his treatment and brought him home two years ago .
17 Just in case Lord Milton failed to appreciate his value , MacLachlan stressed that he had been approached by the rival interest in the county and had been offered sufficient to make him easy for life , and accordingly implied that Milton had an obligation to aid him with his creditors and enable him to arrange further loans .
18 Reached into her mouth with his tongue and moved it across her uneven teeth .
19 Despite his lead , Parry was not fully satisfied with his game and said he was kept in the hunt only by his putting .
20 A stinging satire on American politics , it contains one of the shorter credit lists in film history , since Tim Robbins wrote it , directed it , stars in it , co-wrote the songs with his brother and sings them .
21 I lost track of what was going on outside the alley until the officer tapped her shoulder with his revolver and waved it in my face .
22 Jack stroked the watch affectionately with his finger and returned it to his pocket .
23 Their faces emanate a radiance , though whether he actually sees this with his eyes or knows it by some sort of deductive process he is not entirely sure .
24 He held her close and soothed her , brushing her skin lightly with his hands and kissing her gently , until gradually she felt warm again and the bleak sadness of spirit went away .
25 Then he swung her round , lifted her with his strength and pushed her against the wall .
26 The pilot stayed with his aircraft and steered it away from the school and bravely died with it to save others .
27 Finally , he riffled the thin sheaf of papers together with his fingertips and slid them back inside the security folder , which he handed back to Hayman .
28 Alfieri was frank and professional with his clients and had them under no illusions .
29 He would cloud it with his breath or splash it to pieces with his hands .
30 ‘ It was to guard the plumbing , ’ said the foreman , crushing the Coke tin with his hand and throwing it into a corner .
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