Example sentences of "had [verb] them with " in BNC.
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| 1 | She regarded the Tollemarche ladies as being outside the pale , and had treated them with such blatant condescension that they had quailed , and had sought her goodwill by voting her hastily into offices in those organizations in which she had deigned to take an interest . |
| 2 | The River Thames had received them with some kindness , not passing on to them hepatitis or typhoid or any of the other plagues its waters might be carrying . |
| 3 | The MPs said Mr Clarke had received them with great sympathy and had promised to take time to consider every possible factor which could strengthen the town 's security . |
| 4 | Meryl had joined them with some reluctance after the welcoming address , but the moment had been well chosen ; Anthea and the professor had been deep in conversation with an eager group of ladies from Leicester , leaving Meryl momentarily alone . |
| 5 | We also had to provide them with lunch at 2.30 pm . |
| 6 | Treadwell certainly had n't mentioned any of this when Spruce had interviewed them with the Bishop . |
| 7 | They also knew that the arrested men were respectable and law-abiding and they were highly indignant when they heard that an official spokesman had smeared them with the suggestion of criminal activities . |
| 8 | By this time the family was based at Fortitude Valley , Brisbane , a " tough little corps " where the larrikins had knocked down the Salvation Army lasses when they were first trying to get established , and the crowd had pelted them with mud , stones and stale fish . |
| 9 | By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly . |
| 10 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 11 | Always grumbling , he had threatened them with all kinds of dreadful punishment if he had caught them walking in St Andrew 's churchyard or sheltering in the porch . |
| 12 | A few weeks later I had a letter from them , saying another man had visited them with a barn owl , but it was n't as good as Dawn . |
| 13 | A mole working inside Cranborne School had supplied them with a mailing-list of all Muslim parents whose children had been rejected by ‘ This is a Christian Country ’ Gyles , the Junior School headmaster , and Robert and Maisie had been through the telephone directory , picking out anyone with a Muslim-sounding name . |
| 14 | Thus in D v NSPCC [ 1978 ] AC 171 the court was willing to permit the NSPCC to withhold the name of their informant but in British Steel Corporation v Granada Television Ltd [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 417 the defendants were ordered to disclose the name of the plaintiff 's employee who had supplied them with confidential information belonging to the plaintiff . |
| 15 | The teacher had helped them with the capital letter to begin the sentence and the full stop at the end . |
| 16 | They behaved as though the European exchange rate mechanism had equipped them with a monetary policy and had left no point in discussing the subject further . |
| 17 | Streets which had looked short on the map seemed endless when one had to walk them with a suitcase . |
| 18 | It was their own indolence which had landed them with a murder which could probably be explained and might even have been prevented , if they had taken a bit more trouble . |
| 19 | The secret that lay between them , those minutes when he had held her shaking body against the tree trunk and stared into her eyes , compelling obedience , had bound them with a cord so strong that it could n't be frayed , either by the enormity of their shared guilty secret , or by the small rubs of living together . |
| 20 | Chatichai , who had previously removed three parties from his ruling coalition and had replaced them with two new members , had been under pressure for some time from the military and the media to carry out an extensive reshuffle in order to cleanse his government of allegedly corrupt elements . |
| 21 | Sophie had brought them with her the previous night . |
| 22 | If Nenna had brought them with her to Grace , they must certainly have been ruined by the damp . |
| 23 | The unimaginable heat and weight of Fenna had pressed the ooze in the cave , pressed so hotly and heavily that the molecules of mud were squeezed apart , breaking up into carbon atoms and hydrogen atoms , and his weight had compressed the carbon atoms into diamond crystals , and more and more diamonds until his hoard was a lure to garish youths , who had toiled up to his cave and exchanged riddles and blows with him , but when he had fixed them with his ancient evil little eyes , they retreated abashed to sing his praises . |
| 24 | Members of a group attempting to reach the embassy the night before said policemen had hit them with rubber truncheons and turned them back . |
| 25 | When he had retired with their order and the drinks waiter had served them with lime daiquiris , Barney planted his elbows on the table and leaned towards Melissa . |
| 26 | Athelstan waited until the slattern had served them with goblets of wine . |
| 27 | When he had been keeping Desdemona company , awaiting Othello 's arrival from Venice , Iago had entertained them with impromptu ( and bitter ) rhymes , describing his imagination 's preliminary working ( the rhetorical process of inventio ) in these terms : Frieze is a coarse woollen cloth , birdlime a viscous stuff used to entangle : the destructive collocation of the two seems an apt metaphor for Iago 's ‘ invention ’ . |
| 28 | Mr John Smith told how the attendance at meetings had dwindled to only one or two , and he had to threaten them with ‘ Are you going to have a feast or not ? ’ |
| 29 | Thankfully , her mother was n't in and Doreen , the maid , had plied them with milk and biscuits . |
| 30 | Group chairman Kneale Ashwell said the deepening world recession had left them with no option but to cut jobs . |