Example sentences of "[pers pn] with [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take particular trouble with any which might present you with difficulties and have a credible reply worked out to sidestep -problem areas . |
| 2 | Valda having provided the introduction , I was of course quite delighted to try and help you with names and contacts the other day on the telephone , and note that you will supply me with a strictly personal and confidential copy at the conclusion of your endeavours and I appreciate this VERY much ! |
| 3 | She bribed me with pasta and blackmailed me into writing a synopsis on my last night in Hawaii . |
| 4 | Zak came up to me with Donna and offered me a lift back to the city in their bus , and at that exact moment I saw not Bill Baudelaire himself but someone who might go among the owners , where Tommy could n't . |
| 5 | I can remember Rachel looking at me with scorn and saying , Mummy , you must be mad , in this heat ! '' However , if was one of our own small fighter planes , and we rushed across to see it land . |
| 6 | You often put things like ar er like er dining chairs which have got awkward-shaped backs up there , cover them with wrappers and place them there . |
| 7 | As soon as possible , he was on his own again , moving from place to place , sleeping rough in barns , in caves , or in the open , and depending on the support and generosity of the common people for succour and sustenance , repaying them with prayer and preaching . |
| 8 | They led the dogs to a place where the river meandered and the shingle bank was broad and deserted , and they beat them with sticks or stoned them . |
| 9 | I will strike them with pestilence and disinherit them , and I will make of you ’ ( that is Moses ) ‘ a nation greater and mightier than they . ’ |
| 10 | He worked closely with Philip , one raising rarities and the other capturing them with pencil and brush at the moment of their greatest beauty . |
| 11 | They feed them with crumbs and make friends with them . ’ |
| 12 | The cost of chartering 15 Hercules aircraft , filling them with food and organising distribution on the ground is £6.6 million over three weeks . |
| 13 | ‘ You tied them with a line and taped Mrs Bayles mouth so she could not speak , threatened them with weapons and left them tied while you ransacked their home a truly terrifying experience for them . ’ |
| 14 | Because er , I used to serve them with coal and Miss her name was and er er th there was erm a sweet shop about tow by that fish shop which was er , er a fish shop even in those days , fish and chip shop even in those days . |
| 15 | ( A sound like the mindless drone of bees ; the sound whispered to Chesarynth and she strained her perceptions to hear its subtext : like bees they 'll sting unless you sate them with security and dull the thoughts from their minds . ) |
| 16 | On occasion the underlying philosophy was extremely crude , recommending that ‘ if you provided them with footballs and made them kick footballs , they would not be so inclined to kick policemen in the street ’ . |
| 17 | Boil eggs and decorate them with paints and put tufts of wool on for hair . |
| 18 | Try them with Soave or Pinot wines or if you prefer a red Valpolicella or Bardolino . |
| 19 | We feed him 8 or 9 times a day and then we have to help him with physiotherapy and bathe him . |
| 20 | They played chess and bezique and silly paper games , Alexandra attempted sketches of him which convulsed him with laughter and read comic poems to him . |
| 21 | They bombarded him with letters and rang him up at least once a week . |
| 22 | She ignored him with difficulty and threaded a length of Size C Tubigrip on to the frame and then up over his ankle . |
| 23 | Both had for a period apprenticed their ideas to those of Graham Sutherland and both paid homage to Picasso , Vaughan equating him with Auden and Bartók as an artist who had evolved ‘ a coherent vocabulary of form appropriate to our life ’ . |
| 24 | It was always by accident I 'd come upon him with others and watch him converse with people I 'd known nearly all my life , lighting them with his interest , vignettes in which I played no part . |
| 25 | ‘ Go to meet him with Maggie and let her charm him . ’ |
| 26 | Those who knew Billy Callender still speak of him with affection and regard all these years later . |
| 27 | The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've selected a midfield umbrella to protect him with players and said , ‘ look , this is your stage — now go and do it where it will really hurt the opposition ’ . |
| 29 | Alone with her , he floundered ; she kept pushing him under water , teased him with planks that did n't float . |
| 30 | I left him with appreciation and went forward into the central dining car where all the actors were sitting in front of coffee cups and poring over typed sheets of stage directions , muttering under their breaths and sometimes exclaiming aloud . |