Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scalding tears brimmed over , and James Halden checked them with the cushion of his thumb . |
| 2 | Comments included ‘ Scott helped me with the photocopying ’ , ‘ Can we stay in the groups because I really like working with Bobby ? ’ and ‘ Why could n't we stay all day ? ’ |
| 3 | As he turned back the coverlet of the bed where he must sleep alone , Frere consoled himself with the thought that what he was incapable of accomplishing himself might be accomplished for him by time and that providential hand , of which , in his earnest efforts outside the home , he was the faithful instrument . |
| 4 | Woolley touched it with the muzzle of his gun . |
| 5 | The position carried with it the right to a seat in the Council and Fould combined it with the office of Minister of State . |
| 6 | He wrote a cheque and Josh okayed it with the bank — phoned Hnatiuk , the manager , at home . ’ |
| 7 | Benny was holding the cartridges steady while Garry filled them with the gunpowder . |
| 8 | Yesterday he told the court Kim threatened him with the knife after inviting him back to her flat . |
| 9 | Hall implied that adolescence covered the years from sexual maturity to the end of physical growth in a person 's twenties , which was not dissimilar to the early nineteenth-century concept of youth , but all those who followed Hall equated it with the teen years . |
| 10 | He made two crossings through Andersonstown to familiarise them with the work which they would have to do . |
| 11 | Helen amused herself with the pretence that she always lived this way . |
| 12 | Alain acquainted her with the necessity to leave in the morning and would not countenance any thought of her staying here alone . |
| 13 | Various religious influences at Cambridge fired him with the wish to dedicate his life to God . |
| 14 | Gibson did it with the Flying V — a guitar not immediately associated with Jimi — so why not Fender ? |
| 15 | Dean has worked with the company for many years , and general manager Alun Williams presented him with the gift of his choice — an electric drill . |
| 16 | When he was then slow in announcing a name , Churchill enjoyed himself with the mot that ‘ Baldwin has to find a man of inferior ability to himself , and this Herculean task requires time for its accomplishment . ’ |
| 17 | Yelena Prokina skilfully using Mussorgsky 's rapid melodic fragments to suggest her terror as she is about to succumb to rape , Andrey Khovansky pursuing her with the exaggeration of the weak man who is over-asserting himself . |
| 18 | In his Analogy , Butler concerned himself with the question of what sort of evidence one must possess in order to believe in God . |
| 19 | It was a family house after all , no doubt Hilbert had intended Adam to share it with the rest of the family . |
| 20 | ‘ In my own terms , I would describe myself as a fanatic as far as bonsai goes ’ Cregagh Bonsai owner Stephen Whiteside surrounds himself with the love of his life . |
| 21 | Dezallier-D'Argenville provides us with the answer : ‘ Among the common people it is customary to stay at home for two or three days after death , and to keep the body in a room where friends and relatives are invited to come and see it . ’ |
| 22 | He had started by ‘ snorting ’ Temgesic tablets and had then allowed Murray to inject him with the drug . |
| 23 | Raymond Moore & Mary Cooper , Moore concerned himself with the landscape and the mystery of the commonplace . |
| 24 | Aberdeen , whatever its staging-post status in their plans , received the same attention as their eventual western destinations , and Johnson approached it with the attitude he later brought to the Highlands and the west , with Boswell , for his part , consistent in the manner and style of his own reportage — observing Johnson as he observed Scotland . |
| 25 | Nicky approached her with the assumption that men are naturally right and it is the role of women to follow their lead . |
| 26 | In the Observer , Janet Watts had no reservations : ‘ Hannah received me with the warmth and courtesy she radiates in the film and talked for three hours without any refreshment but a tooth-glass of tap water , in which she toasted my health . ’ |
| 27 | McGowan clubbed him with the butt of the gun . |
| 28 | God help us with the economy , if he comes up with a crackpot idea like he did over these grading appeals . |
| 29 | The only thing he knew for certain was that the law forbade the Trunchbull to hit him with the riding-crop that she kept smacking against her thigh . |
| 30 | The timing of the Bayeux speech — after the popular rejection of the first assembly 's draft and before a second assembly got down to work — suggests strongly that de Gaulle made it with the aim of influencing the constitution-making process . |