Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Ultimately , the urge to move on that afflicted so many media people , and Florian more severely than most , would demand satisfaction , but she suspected that Luke would be shrewd enough to tempt him with an offer of his choice of all the other stations in which he had an interest .
2 It alone provided him with an ideal of peace .
3 The fact that such an occupation was un-likely to provide him with a living did nothing to deter him .
4 As he sipped his wine in the bright , busy square , he thought that although the language was certainly a problem and one that he would have to continue to struggle with , it only provided him with an excuse , really , an excuse for why he had not been able to get down to the job of looking for Elsie .
5 He walked into the corridor , tiredness suddenly overcoming him with the prospect of a few hours off , and very nearly knocked Catherine Crane over in his preoccupation .
6 BBC TV issued an apology to Saracens lock Mark Langley after wrongly linking him with an incident that put Gloucester 's Marcus Hannaford in hospital at the weekend .
7 It was only Cranmer who was brave enough to confront him with the evidence of the infidelities of the adored young Queen of his middle age , Catherine Howard .
8 Robert can see Henry 's star quality and has already aligned him with an animal talent agency ( Satch 's Animals ) , although his one date with the cameras so far — for a Lucozade commercial — was n't exactly a smash .
9 Fitzosbert , however , had already dismissed him with a flicker of his eyes and was staring coolly at Sir John as if to prove he was not cowed by any show of authority .
10 The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time .
11 However , I was not prepared just to accept him with no experience at all and I asked him to give me some sort of evidence about the amount of flying he had done .
12 She no longer provided him with a defence against his own yearning for safety which had been so well hidden behind his off-hand behaviour .
13 I can not dignify him with the name of " physician " … should send to their doom many poor souls who might , with the proper treatment , recover ! "
14 She would not touch him with a bargepole , she said , and never would have done .
15 ‘ If Birkenhead stood alone , ’ Baldwin self-righteously pronounced , ‘ I would not touch him with a barge-pole . ’
16 He recalled that he was overjoyed when he heard that Walter Luff was staying on until 1954 , thus providing him with the chance that he needed .
17 She would just confront him with the fact that she knew about Flint Investments of New York , and see what he said .
18 There was a tinge of envy in his tone , for his humdrum childhood home in Croydon had not provided him with the kind of ‘ things ’ his taste now craved .
19 ‘ If someone has done you wrong , do not repay him with a wrong .
20 When Gina was not smacking him with the laundry bag or scratching his face , they lived a life of complete indifference to one another .
21 The applicant sought judicial review of the decison of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office on 26 June 1991 , in the course of criminal proceedings against the applicant , to seek to enforce his compliance with the requirement contained in a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 to attend at her offices and answer questions or otherwise furnish information in respect of her investigation of the applicant alone , afer she had caused him to be interviewed under caution on three occasions and thereafter charged him with an offence , at a time when and in circumstances whereby ( a ) the applicant 's application for legal aid had not yet been granted and he had neither legal advice nor legal representation available to him ; ( b ) the Director had stated that she would not cause the applicant to be further cautioned in compliance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 of the current Codes of Practice issued pursuant to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 .
22 Supporting his body with one hand , he quickly assessed him with the other .
23 Alternatively the ‘ success ’ in ( 37 ) could have been the product of into him by evolution , thereby providing him with the power to bring about the desired result himself .
24 The resulting radical pollution control programme outlined by Nixon , calling for a 90 per cent reduction in vehicle emissions by 1980 , not only led to him being credited ( albeit briefly ) as policy initiator of an environmental clean-up but also provided him with the chance to deal a blow to one of his most important opponents in the 1972 elections , Edmund Muskie .
25 It also faced him with the need to untangle a financial crisis , a task that has frequently occupied him in his career .
26 Early maternal deprivation had clearly left him with a hankering for mother figures in his life and I was n't the first .
27 It also presented him with a number of problems .
28 His education had also left him with a love for all things English .
29 His owner , Jeremy Young admitted repeatedly shooting him with an air rifle at his home in Princes Risborough .
30 Or he could follow the Germans , who have duly provided him with an excuse for higher base rates at next week 's party conference — but have also made it abundantly clear that the Bundesbank is the dominant monetary authority in Europe , and our much-vaunted independence is so much poppy-cock .
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