Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] him with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young members of Prescot Swimming club gather round Stephen Orford , a member of the British Wheelchair basketball team , after presenting him with a cheque for £750 on behalf of the British Wheelchair Sports Foundation . |
| 2 | James II 's marriage to Mary of Gueldres had the attraction of providing him with a queen who came from the great artillery-making centre of northern Europe . |
| 3 | KEVIN Gallacher accused Norwich 's Chris Sutton of upending him with a professional foul and blasted : ‘ I 've seen people sent off for less . ’ |
| 4 | An especially clear example is in the fabliau Boivin de Provins , in which the hero , Boivin , having deluded a household of whores into providing him with a meal and a girl for free , and having set them at each other 's throats , goes off to tell the provost of the town the tale , who in turn spreads the tale around , producing much mirth and laughter . |
| 5 | The French fabliau Boivin de Provins , for instance , treats the prostitutes just as one source of sexually desirable and available women , and laughs with the man who is able to con them into providing him with a whore for free . |
| 6 | She had succeeded in damning him with the faintest of eulogies . |
| 7 | Baxter used to delight in taunting him with the nickname ‘ Oor Wullie ’ and in his biography described Allen as ‘ a pillar of the church , a model of rectitude and , not to labour the point , a pompous pain in the neck . ’ |
| 8 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 9 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 10 | She came to realise that any woman who aimed to share his life would always have to be self-sufficient and able to cope with the day-to-day problems of life without bothering him with the minutiae of domestic detail . |
| 11 | Though when , clearly a man who felt he had no need to underline anything , by his very silence he made her believe it , she was back to hating him with a vengeance . |
| 12 | They wo n't let him go unless they 're gon na replace him with a stag . |
| 13 | At the end of the opera , Parsifal heals Amfortas by touching him with a spear , and Kundry is able , at last , to die . |
| 14 | As he knelt at his mother 's feet , the sovereign invested her son with the symbols of office , ‘ by girding him with a Sword … by putting a Coronet on his head … and a Gold Ring on his finger … and also by delivering a Gold Rod into his hand , that he may preside there and may direct and defend those parts to hold to him and his heirs … for ever ’ . |
| 15 | Mr. Pegg was convicted on 25 March 1985 before Caulfield J. and a jury of the murder of one Peter Goddard by stabbing him with a knife . |
| 16 | The world is not altogether reformed by cheap tours , nor is the inherent vulgarity of the British Philistine going to be eradicated by sending him with a through ticket and a bundle of hotel coupons to Egypt and the Holy Land … |
| 17 | She honestly believed that she was making life easier for Jack , by providing him with a background of home , where not only were meals provided and clothes mended , but his time was also jealously guarded . |
| 18 | In addition , registration operates to protect the security holder by providing him with a certain degree of protection as to the validity and priority of his charge once it is registered ; this in turn benefits the company by enabling it to give the chargee the guarantee of such protection . |
| 19 | Money enables an individual to delay a potential purchase to the most convenient time by providing him with a way in which to store his purchasing power . |
| 20 | The experience of Aden had enabled Nizan to come to terms with his own personal development by providing him with the opportunity to understand more completely the political , social and cultural causes of his psychological disorientation . |
| 21 | For Great Britain , the Department of Trade and Industry persuaded Luke Rittner , former Secretary General of the Arts Council , to act as its cultural adviser , but wasted the invitation by equipping him with a totally inadequate budget . |
| 22 | Valerie cut short further interior monologue by gracing him with a smile and saying , ‘ I just brought Lesley-Jane some home-made soup for the interval . |