Example sentences of "[noun] who be [verb] [pron] with " in BNC.
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1 | She could look neither at Dr Neil , nor at the tasteless harpy who was tormenting him with her tactlessness . |
2 | And again he looked around , this time for the devil who was tempting him with the prospect he most profoundly desired . |
3 | Further , it makes me angry with myself to find that the perfectly natural and utterly unfair result is that I begin to dislike Paxford , no exercise of the will convincing me that it is not the unfortunate P. who is boring me with his views on everything under the sun . |
4 | These , too , had been fated , Wexford 's broken by a pretty young woman who was helping him with his enquiries and Burden 's one day inadvertently put out with the rubbish . |
5 | It had suddenly borne in upon her that it was almost midnight and that she was in a strange flat in a strange city , with a strange man who was plying her with champagne . |
6 | Living alone with an Aunt Louise who was acting someone with a grievance might , I thought , be rather difficult . ) |