Example sentences of "[vb past] them with [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What left his stamp on the stewardship of our movement was that he held to these passions so tenaciously and yet drew on inner reserves that illumined them with an unshakeable commitment to excellence and that rarest of all qualities personal integrity . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll bring her , ’ said Caspar , and sat back and regarded them with the plump pleasure of a person who has reached a final decision . |
| 3 | So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at school , and Miss Stacy helped them with the special examination work . |
| 4 | Having chosen your leather corals carefully , and provided them with a good aquarium environment , they should grow steadily and live for a long time ( ten years has been reported ) , and possibly even reproduce . |
| 5 | The network of family , village and regional ties , the zemlyachestva , which ‘ peasant-proletarians ’ imported into the city provided them with a social nexus which at least limited the disorientation and anomie imputed to them . |
| 6 | The French were only ready to discuss a common market if it provided them with a high tariff ‘ wall ’ against outsiders and if there were complicated measures to guarantee equality of competition between members . |
| 7 | Japanese land forces enjoyed numerical superiority and better preparedness , which provided them with an initial advantage . |
| 8 | ‘ Now , I want you both to just relax and take it easy , ’ she told them with a warm smile . |
| 9 | She also compared them with a standard-style hot-brush ( only for dry hair ) , the Braun Independent 500 Combi ( £16.95 ) . |
| 10 | He blasted them with a powerful assault rifle after knocking back eight pints and storming his girlfriend 's flat , it was alleged . |
| 11 | But in practice positivists almost invariably worked uncritically and unquestioningly with the products of the existing legal definitions ; by default , they endowed them with an objective status . |
| 12 | It also confronted them with the disagreeable fact that at any moment some disorder in their own sensory apparatus would cause that universe , ostensibly so orderly and so stable , to disappear . |
| 13 | The four men — Talb , aged 35 , Marten Imandi , and two brothers , Mustafa and Mahmoud Mougrabi — were known to the intelligence services , who linked them with a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command ( PFLP-GC ) cell working in Frankfurt and Neuss . |
| 14 | The assistant behind the counter acknowledged them with a curt nod and his eyes flickered towards an area of the shop hidden from the entrance . |
| 15 | She was not going to say or do anything that would make John Major 's task more difficult : the Cabinet , here she indicated them with a sinuous wave of her hand , was the most brilliant since Herbert Asquith 's and , as for Central Office , and she looked directly at Sir Charles , who was mopping his brow , they were good men and true who strove mightily in the interests of the Party , and for precious little reward . |
| 16 | I observed them with the silent attention a tiger must give its approaching prey . |
| 17 | Her last words had been spoken very portentously , and I rewarded them with a dubious shrug . |
| 18 | Jean-Claude helped the men up our four flights of stairs with their cumbersome delivery and , having given them beer , rewarded them with a generous tip . |
| 19 | Many settlers found the presence of this armed and organized people on their doorstep unnerving — Delamere , who treated them with a lordly tolerance , conspicuously did not — and so , conscious of the injustice which had been done , did the administration . |
| 20 | The author , Jane Pettigrew , has taken traditional recipes from Trust properties all over the British Isles and combined them with a fascinating account of the development of tea-drinking in this country , ever since Catharine of Braganza brought over a tea chest from Portugal as part of her dowry on her marriage to Charles II . |
| 21 | Minton , though he rendered them with a Chinese delicacy , despaired at the sight of so many fir trees and did less sketching than was usual on his trips abroad . |
| 22 | At planning meetings with the senior management I often had to endure predictable little jokes about Andreas 's ‘ harem ’ , but I took them with a good grace . |
| 23 | Although they were too short in the arm so that his lean wrists protruded like those of an overgrown schoolboy , he wore them with a certain panache , as if this unorthodox working garb , so different from the regulation white coats of the rest of the Laboratory staff , symbolised that unique blend of scientific skill , experience and flair which distinguishes the good Document Examiner . |
| 24 | The wedding was held in 1920 at Mouthlock Methodist Chapel , at South Stainmore , where Mother was the organist and , much to her surprise and delight , the members of the chapel presented them with an inscribed silver teapot . |
| 25 | She presented them with the annual Child of Achievement awards , given to children who 've overcome extraordinary difficulties just to live a normal life . |
| 26 | New coach Pierre Berbizier is a noted disciplinarian , and whilst selecting ‘ Les Bèglois ’ for their ability and strength he also issued them with a stern warning against any brutish excesses . |
| 27 | He raised his sword and answered them with the same word . |
| 28 | Something similar happened in Vienna later , when the Emperor Franz Josef ordered the removal of the city 's walls , and replaced them with the famous Ring , with its parks , university , public buildings and what is now the Vienna State Opera . |
| 29 | When Lufthansa pulled out of sponsoring the Women 's European Open , Mrs Doyle replaced them with The European newspaper . |
| 30 | He encouraged them to turn back to God and accepted them with a forgiving spirit . |