Example sentences of "had [verb] them [adv] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skirting a small lake , they had stared to see a great , grey fisher-bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge , until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamour . |
| 2 | Sarah caught it first , being nearest , and she soon forgot to mope for her disconsolate Sir George ( who had seen them off with very ill grace ) . |
| 3 | We did n't have time off for lectures we had to fit them in with our wi with our off duty . |
| 4 | Esther hinted that it was the grim circumstances of their childhood that had drawn them together with a love that dared not speak its name . |
| 5 | But now it was over , and Isay had rejoined them along with a trio of wounded Hearthwares who were being tended in the hall below with their armour stripped off beside them . |
| 6 | He 'd handed those to Miss Guttner , as the obstetrician involved , and she had confused them considerably with talk about the obstetric details , which pleased Briant a good deal . |
| 7 | The plastics and polymers which came into use between the wars were , or were claimed to be , the first man-made strong materials to come out of chemical laboratories and they rather went to the heads of the chemists , who supposed , not unnaturally , that these polymers were strong because they had put them together with strong chemical bonds . |
| 8 | He and his colleagues were well aware of the more rapid progress in America , and there were regular transatlantic visits by headquarters engineers , but only when they were quite sure of new techniques and had discussed them thoroughly with the British manufacturers were they prepared to make a move . |
| 9 | But , as other African countries have discovered , African insurance companies were too small to carry major risks and had to lay them off with foreign re-insurers . |
| 10 | As people bustled around him the Doctor had harangued them frantically with all the strength that was left to him . |