Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] him with [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago .
2 She tried to imagine him with blue eyes , or brown — or even grey , like her own ; but she could n't .
3 She began to shower him with desperate gifts .
4 He had knocked on the back door while she was kneading the first batch of bread dough she had ever made in her life — something to do , she thought crossly , with coming to the country — and she had gone to answer him with floury hands and a frown .
5 Yet again the official syllabus and scheme of work may recommend the purchase and use of local materials gathered from the local environment when official administrative regulations preclude the headmaster from purchasing these and fail to provide him with any facilities for storing them once he has obtained them .
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