Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to face the handicaps of severe diabetes but , true to Greek ideals , she endured them with stoicism ; only on four occasions in 30 years did she break down under these cruel burdens . |
| 2 | ‘ I would dearly love to know why you keep sticking me with motives that I just do n't have ! |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sure I would if he 's a friend of yours , Harry , but I think it 's not such a good idea for you to include me with Aubrey and Madeleine . |
| 4 | ‘ They should change the law to include them with dogs like pit bulls which have to wear a muzzle . |
| 5 | He came to see me with Sir Patrick Nairne . |
| 6 | But dawn had already reached inside the grey stone walls , touching them with fingers of amethyst , softening the austerity of Castell Rocamar and rendering the place almsot pretty . |
| 7 | An occasional shaft of sunlight penetrated the foliage and lit up the bronze trunks of the pines , touching them with fire . |
| 8 | She knows people and tried to dazzle me with names . |
| 9 | He 's going to kill me with despair . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're trying to kill me with cholesterol and all that E rubbish , ’ he said and stormed out . |
| 11 | I had the feeling that Prentice was out to kill me with kindness , or at least make me put my hands up to something I had n't done . |
| 12 | ( A sound like the mindless drone of bees ; the sound whispered to Chesarynth and she strained her perceptions to hear its subtext : like bees they 'll sting unless you sate them with security and dull the thoughts from their minds . ) |
| 13 | While Violette entertained them with stories of increasing complexity , Katherine from beneath lowered lids stole occasional glances at Carlo . |
| 14 | That evening , in the hall , Mariot entertained them with songs , accompanied by the harp , to their enjoyment ; although Ramsay qualified his rapture by some regret that , there being insufficient room in their ingle-neuk for playing the harp , she had to perform outside it , and he was deprived of the nearness which he found so much to his taste . |
| 15 | To show this was not true , I began to talk to her in an animated way , and she was attentive , encouraging me with questions . |
| 16 | They trust me with bunches of keys and let me phone my sister . |
| 17 | Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water . |
| 18 | In both cases the wages of journeywomen were so low that he associates them with prostitution : " Take a survey of all the common women of the town , who take their walks between Charing Cross and Fleet Ditch , and I am persuaded more than half of them have been bred milliners . " |
| 19 | Mary Cummins , president of the suspended board that opposes Rainbow , says she refuses to demean legitimate minorites , such as blacks or Asians , by lumping them with homosexuals . |
| 20 | LEFT The dates obtained through radiocarbon dating can often be refined by calibrating them with dates obtained by other means . |
| 21 | Does he treat me with respect and consideration ? |
| 22 | ‘ Nurses everywhere are working under intense and growing pressure and today 's announcement will be a heavy blow since it says clearly that the Government does not value their efforts and is not prepared to treat them with fairness or justice . ’ |
| 23 | The essential function of the Masai was to provide the perfect opportunity for the British to display what they believed to be their finest characteristics as a ruling race : the ability to understand and to gain the respect of proud traditional peoples , the self-discipline to treat them with courtesy , and the moral authority to guide and control them without resort to brute force . |
| 24 | The greatest good we can do to people is to treat them with compassion , courtesy and respect . |
| 25 | Where important structural timbers are infected but have not been weakened by the fungus , it may be practical to treat them with fungicide to retain them . |
| 26 | Staff can become familiar with CAL programs before using them with students and can use word processing packages . |
| 27 | It also says that if you respect someone you will ‘ treat them with consideration ’ and ‘ esteem them ’ ( think of them as valuable ) . |
| 28 | Like Arsenal , they are in form at the moment , so we must treat them with respect — but not too much . ’ |
| 29 | We will treat them with scorn . |
| 30 | But , in fact , as I pointed out the minute you told me what the letters said , there was n't one line there to connect them with Chambers . |