Example sentences of "[verb] they with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 2 | The Sheikh spoke quietly to his chauffeur , then stepped forward to acknowledge them with a courteous inclination of the head . |
| 3 | • Put out any burning clothes by smothering them with a thick cloth or rug , but not something synthetic which would melt in the heat . |
| 4 | Ladies and gentlemen , I 'm very grateful to Professor Eppell for his characteristically kind and generous remarks , and erm I accept them all the more readily because I know you will treat them with a healthy degree of scepticism . |
| 5 | Give hands an overnight treat by coating them with a rich conditioner and then donning a pair of lightweight vinyl gloves ( such as HandiMates , £1.09 for a box of 10 ) . |
| 6 | And s and begin to drive them with a consolidated plan . |
| 7 | Once you 've arranged your flowers , make sure you keep your container topped up with water , and do n't forget to refresh them with a quick spray . |
| 8 | Barclays Bank is one of the cheapest widely-available sources of travellers ' cheques , charging 1 p.c. to issue them with a minimum fee of £2 . |
| 9 | Combine them with a high kick on alternate legs each time you straighten up |
| 10 | I would like to take each tent by the comer and pull it down , and I would untether all the neat horses and the sleek , brushed bulls and send them with a huge cry into all the hills . |
| 11 | And the Cid began to encourage them with a loud voice , shouting God and Santiago ! |
| 12 | Core holdings in large blue-chip companies that are infrequently traded provide them with a solid investor base and reduces share price volatility , whilst active trading and analysis of smaller company shares adds to the liquidity and marketability of these securities , and ensures accurate pricing . |
| 13 | So it seemed sensible to move into this area , take advantage of that for ourselves , and provide them with a better service . |
| 14 | Many bodies have stated that the grant aid procedures and the application form provide them with a ready basis for an effective budgeting system . |
| 15 | Furthermore , the idea of network impinges fairly closely on the notion of sociolinguistic functions , as we have presented this in chapter 2 , because it is a fundamental postulate of network analysis that individuals create personal communities that provide them with a meaningful framework for solving the problems of their day-to-day existence ( Mitchell 1986 : 74 ) . |
| 16 | The Chelonians milled about confusedly in the sudden darkness , their optical aids realigning frantically to provide them with a coherent picture of their environment . |
| 17 | It aims to train students in what used to be called " close reading " and to provide them with a critical awareness of the ideological , socio-cultural and historical constraints on the perception of what constitutes " literature " . |
| 18 | Ice-climbers have often wondered when someone is going to provide them with a decent training facility . |
| 19 | Mindful of the quarrels over precedence among the Bonaparte family which had marred his uncle 's coronation , Napoleon III may have felt it unwise to provide them with a similar occasion for bad manners . |
| 20 | Olson suggests that these organizations are sometimes artificial creations required by governments to provide them with a representative body they can negotiate with . |
| 21 | Now part of the er exercise which the marketing exec does when he or she round to the surgeries is to provide them with a certain amount of information of course . |
| 22 | The aim was that as a greater number of the population became eligible for national insurance benefits , fewer people would be dependent on the safety net of national assistance to provide them with a minimum income . |
| 23 | Because cats , like people , are breeding too fast there has been a concerted effort to provide them with a contraceptive pill similar to the one we use . |
| 24 | And finally in terms of prod productivity each of our users have varied requirements , but we need to provide them with a consistent solution . |
| 25 | It is the responsibility of all candidates to find out their results and of unsuccessful candidates to request their course director or senior course tutor to provide them with a written record of the decision which the Board of Examiners has taken about their progress . |
| 26 | Drawing No. 78 has this comment : ‘ This Plate exhibits one of these new buildings which afford comforts the poor inhabitants of the picturesque seldome enjoy ; but it is but just to observe that the wealthy residents in Ambleside , natives and strangers , are exceedingly attentive to the wants of the needy , and supply them with a discriminating kindness that does equal honour to their heads and to their hearts . ’ |
| 27 | IF you have valuables insure them with a special student scheme . |
| 28 | Having chosen your leather corals carefully , and provided them with a good aquarium environment , they should grow steadily and live for a long time ( ten years has been reported ) , and possibly even reproduce . |
| 29 | The network of family , village and regional ties , the zemlyachestva , which ‘ peasant-proletarians ’ imported into the city provided them with a social nexus which at least limited the disorientation and anomie imputed to them . |
| 30 | The French were only ready to discuss a common market if it provided them with a high tariff ‘ wall ’ against outsiders and if there were complicated measures to guarantee equality of competition between members . |