Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] they with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them went through the ritual of gazing about them with curious eyes in search of a familiar face among the crowds . |
| 2 | The chief allotted Sycorax and Ariel three women to attend them , and then turned to face Kit , and traced between them with his staff three circles in the dust . |
| 3 | Two thousand five hundred volunteers advanced on the salt depot in successive waves of twenty-five , defying orders to retreat and offering no resistance when the police laid about them with clubs , kicking and beating those who fell . |
| 4 | I dutifully read through them with sinking feelings and , sometimes , a touch of nausea . |
| 5 | There are already plenty of pointers and anomalies , and I 'd like to go through them with you to try to sift out the red herrings and give due precedence to the important facts . |
| 6 | What I need to do is to go through them with you and make sure you fully understand what they what their origins are etcetera because isomers we base the questions are very very common so I 'll be able to talk about marks . |
| 7 | She had to perform for them with the spotlight on her and she knew that no trick would be good enough . |
| 8 | When she returned to New York , she bumped against them with a vengeance . |
| 9 | Many owls have such a perfect sense of hearing that they can locate and catch small creatures in the pitch dark , landing upon them with the claws correctly aligned to grasp them along the spine . |
| 10 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 11 | It had been Fei Yen 's idea to have a midnight picnic and Tsu Ma had been delighted when the two girls had come to them with blankets and a basket , interrupting their talk . |
| 12 | Mention is also made of his lease of the customs and the way ‘ he presided over them with singular liberality towards those of higher rank ’ . |
| 13 | But as usual I affected a supreme unconcern , and floated past them with a sway of the hips that was a touch exaggerated . |
| 14 | But Izzie , watching the figure loping towards them with his strange , wolf-like walk , suddenly knew how the Devil will look on the day of his Redemption . |
| 15 | A band was playing and the room was filled with chattering groups , waiters gliding between them with trays of fruit juice and champagne-filled glasses , others with canapés . |
| 16 | I believe that it is important to be open to these sorts of dilemmas , to take opportunities to talk about them with colleagues , to try to become precise in our articulations , because then it is possible to unlock the blocked energy and exploit it positively . |
| 17 | Penelope had taken note of the two quite personable looking men who had just come into the hall ! and were standing looking about them with some bewilderment , as if uncertain what they ought to do . |
| 18 | A waiter threaded past them with a tray of delicious looking amber-coloured drinks , with ice and fruit on top . |
| 19 | For years he and his father before him had endured advice from well-meaning lunatics as to what he should do with the place — concreting the stones , or letting archaeologists burrow under them with their excavations , or digging a defensive moat round it — and Sir Edmund Antrobus , Bart , had had enough . |
| 20 | Radical sects like the Quakers , the Shakers and the Methodists all encouraged the faithful to feel the divine in tangible forms ; some Pentecostal sects would speak in tongues , hear voices or experience powerful feelings which came upon them with such force that they were believed to come from God . |
| 21 | IBM came to them with the notion , the firm says . |
| 22 | In the short term shells may be marked with blobs of paint or even by writing on them with a pencil , but a more permanent mark may be made by cutting a groove into the shell lip with a hacksaw . |
| 23 | Gourmets lured them to piles of turnips , then shot at them with duck-guns . |
| 24 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |
| 25 | He 'd lie on his bed at three or four in the morning just looking at them with rapt concentration , not reading them , just laying them out , changing which one was next to which one , as if determining some sequence or some relationship between the writers . |
| 26 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
| 27 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |
| 28 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |
| 29 | Afterwards he recommended that the class should go over selected extracts , looking at them with a worksheet . |
| 30 | At higher altitudes , swifts trawl for them with open beaks . |