Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] with " in BNC.

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1 He is leaving tomorrow , and I have parted them with my selfishness and my love .
2 You have treated me with great courtesy and kindness ; for all that I thank you .
3 No yes Mr Singe is dedicated to the fewcher of Athletes Whaddon and to proove it has prezented me with a BLANK czech for £53–24p only , which is at my dispozal for strainthning the squid .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Under this stage all holders of vouchers who had not placed them with investment funds were able to use them to apply for shares in the 1,500 companies selected for privatization .
7 The immediate sight of him , which should have filled them with relief and joy , brought only terror .
8 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 .
9 Has he for instance consulted them with their rights under the Tenants Charter ?
10 When you 've made your gifts to the various museums , you have given them with the stipulation that none of the works of art may ever be sold .
11 Most youths and even small boys wore a strip of hide around their wrists or ankles : this had been given them with appropriate blessing to bring them success when they became warriors .
12 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 .
13 Since , however , the types of response given by these enquirers did not differ significantly from applicants , we have grouped them with the applicants for the purpose of the analysis .
14 Treadwell certainly had n't mentioned any of this when Spruce had interviewed them with the Bishop .
15 I am grateful to you for your prayers , fellowship , cards , letters , flowers and the many practical ways in which you have surrounded me with God 's love .
16 Martina has delighted me with her form for 14 years which I 'd like to thank her for .
17 Lewes had spent only a short time with the unit , but had impressed everyone with his absolute dedication to his work .
18 I felt proud that Mr Rochester had trusted me with the story of his past life .
19 Somehow she felt this to be a fact , so she said , ‘ Yes — he 's trusted me with such things as letters and accounts .
20 Chief Executive Neville Chamberlain said : ‘ We have concerned ourselves with environmental care for many years and are proud of our achievements so far .
21 If Guy had only exchanged contracts last week , he 'd organised himself with impressive speed .
22 While her husband occupied himself with making mental notes as to his proposed victim 's physical constitution and disposition of character , Cleo amused herself with Lorimer , communicating with him by pulling delightful impish faces and fluttering her hands .
23 Hewlett , author of The Queen 's Quair , brings to mind another writer who had similarly concerned himself with Mary Queen of Scots ( ‘ La Stuarda ’ ) — that is to say , Swinburne in his Mary Stuart .
24 Back in the days when he had yet concerned himself with the world .
25 Such an interpretation is not inconsistent with Katib Celebi 's brief account , particularly if it is remembered that by his time the Seyhulislam had long since been the Mufti of Istanbul and that he may therefore have concerned himself with trying to sketch the history of the office only in so far as it related to that city .
26 ‘ He seems to have surrounded himself with every comfort ; but that is hardly surprising , if he has stayed here all the week for ten years . ’
27 Admiral Jonathan Howe , the American who is the UN secretary-general 's representative in Somalia , and thus the UN 's top man , has surrounded himself with advisers from the State Department , ‘ psy-ops ’ from the CIA , retired colonels from the special forces and military academics from everywhere .
28 He was a man who , like Marius Steen , had risen from humble origins to immense wealth and had surrounded himself with all the symbols of the established aristocracy .
29 Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous .
30 It has surrounded itself with a region from which nothing — absolutely nothing — can escape .
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