Example sentences of "[verb] them with " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the junction of the Welford branch , a boat from Welford met them with ample supplies of refreshments to fortify them against the passage of Bosworth tunnel . |
| 32 | He met them with a drawn sword , but it was Gwion and Colban and a score of others armed with staves , kitchen knives and clubs . |
| 33 | She sighed and relaxed and when his lips sought hers again she met them with matching urgency . |
| 34 | Dinner I boil myself just a few potatoes , and I eat them with a piece of bread … |
| 35 | One solution that government has used is to replace or override them with more compliant organisations such as the urban development corporations referred to above . |
| 36 | This can be particularly useful , because although your dog may well master these quite readily in the privacy of your garden , it will also need to perform them with your encouragement in the totally different environment of the training hall , in the company of other dogs . |
| 37 | Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water . |
| 38 | He began gathering the books together , handling them with exaggerated care and opening them a second time to gaze at Melissa 's signature . |
| 39 | Clownfish raised in captivity seemingly do not undergo the learning process established in the wild , which closely associates them with an anemone for the whole of their lives . |
| 40 | In both cases the wages of journeywomen were so low that he associates them with prostitution : " Take a survey of all the common women of the town , who take their walks between Charing Cross and Fleet Ditch , and I am persuaded more than half of them have been bred milliners . " |
| 41 | Mary Cummins , president of the suspended board that opposes Rainbow , says she refuses to demean legitimate minorites , such as blacks or Asians , by lumping them with homosexuals . |
| 42 | LEFT The dates obtained through radiocarbon dating can often be refined by calibrating them with dates obtained by other means . |
| 43 | The Sheikh spoke quietly to his chauffeur , then stepped forward to acknowledge them with a courteous inclination of the head . |
| 44 | And there 's nothing at all you can cover them with ? |
| 45 | Where important structural timbers are infected but have not been weakened by the fungus , it may be practical to treat them with fungicide to retain them . |
| 46 | The greatest good we can do to people is to treat them with compassion , courtesy and respect . |
| 47 | What better way to taunt the auld enemy than to treat them with such reckless contempt ? |
| 48 | The essential function of the Masai was to provide the perfect opportunity for the British to display what they believed to be their finest characteristics as a ruling race : the ability to understand and to gain the respect of proud traditional peoples , the self-discipline to treat them with courtesy , and the moral authority to guide and control them without resort to brute force . |
| 49 | ‘ If he shares his uncle 's hostility towards the female sex he might very well be prepared to treat them with similar contempt ! ’ |
| 50 | ‘ Nurses everywhere are working under intense and growing pressure and today 's announcement will be a heavy blow since it says clearly that the Government does not value their efforts and is not prepared to treat them with fairness or justice . ’ |
| 51 | But it means , too , transforming these traditions , by imbuing them with the woman-centered values of nurturance and intimacy , as necessary and legitimate goals of political life . |
| 52 | • Put out any burning clothes by smothering them with a thick cloth or rug , but not something synthetic which would melt in the heat . |
| 53 | Yeah , well , they say that they 're too large to poach them with , they come over the top , there we are , thank you . |
| 54 | He made his way through the twisting streets of the harbour district , crossing the little squares where the market traders were spreading linen sheets on the ground before decking them with neat conical piles of vegetables and spices whose reds , yellows and greens shone out brightly against the white . |
| 55 | Even the attempted revisions of the discipline associated with the Scrutiny programme have failed due to its lack of positive practical goals : " False ideals are not destroyed merely by seeing through their linguistic dress , but by opposing them with stronger and better ones . " |
| 56 | Staff can become familiar with CAL programs before using them with students and can use word processing packages . |
| 57 | Oriental dragons were not bloodthirsty like the Worms in England , and a pretty story tells us that the beautiful colours of autumn leaves are a result of a nearby dragon yawning and tinging them with his warm breath , before settling down to his winter hibernation . |
| 58 | And it is no surprise that the man who first addressed a novel called The Joke to the citizens of a prohibitionist state in the middle of Europe twenty-five years ago should treat them with as much sympathy as harsh lucidity . |
| 59 | It also says that if you respect someone you will ‘ treat them with consideration ’ and ‘ esteem them ’ ( think of them as valuable ) . |
| 60 | Like Arsenal , they are in form at the moment , so we must treat them with respect — but not too much . ’ |