Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] and [verb] him with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet again , looking at this urbane relaxed figure seated opposite me and comparing him with the romantic figures of Spender and others or with the scruffy Auden , I found it difficult to believe that he was a poet and not rather some worldly and successful company director . |
| 2 | The man was toying with him and treating him with contempt , by showing just how little he rated him as an opponent . |
| 3 | The man held up a hand to silence Barak then turned to the guard beside him and dismissed him with a curt nod of the head . |
| 4 | Mildred hopped next to him and patted him with a half visible arm . |
| 5 | We found him in a night club with his wife , and Flynn went straight up to him and flattened him with a single punch . |
| 6 | She who could call a lame youth to her and support him with her invisible grace while he laid down his crutches on the steps of her altar , why doubt that she could turn the leaves of a Gospel , and guide a faithful finger to the words her will required ? |
| 7 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 8 | One child referred to in court as child A , finally admitted taking James Bulger to a railway embankment near Walton but he said it was the other boy child B who threw bricks at him and hit him with a stick and a metal bar . |
| 9 | He had told Fahfakhs that the young man wanted to marry Claudia , and perhaps he thought that the district officer was laughing at him and treating him with contempt . |
| 10 | She looked at him and loved him with a mixture of passion and almost maternal tenderness . |