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

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1 Sir John Fastolf , involved in a long drawn-out lawsuit in Paris between 1432 and 1435 , could remind the court that he had been the first to jump into the sea when Henry V had come ashore in France in 1415 , and that the king had rewarded him with the grant of the first house which he had seen in France .
2 It was not long before his medical knowledge had ingratiated him with the prison doctor and afforded him all sorts of privileges .
3 The clerk of the court refused to supply him with the names of the lay justices who had decided it , pursuant to a policy which was being adopted by an increasing number of magistrates courts of declining to identify justices to the public or the press .
4 That he was a good and strong swimmer I assumed , because his American youth had familiarized him with the sea and coastal sailing ; but , owing to his agoraphobia , I can not exactly imagine him enjoying a high dive .
5 There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea .
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