Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rebuilding of the town of Warwick after the fire presumably provided him with an initial opportunity , and he was later responsible for a further group of churches and other public buildings ; but the predominant element in his practice was the building of country houses for the midlands gentry . |
| 2 | That he opposed Winchelsey earlier only aligned him with popes and realists ; that his appointment to Canterbury involved both the exclusion of a saintly scholar and expedient intervention by the pope was hardly of his doing or proof of his unsuitability ; that he readily undertook to secure taxes from reluctant clergy only looks unprincipled against the background of thirteenth-century prelates who had yet to adjust to the vast needs and new methods of kings everywhere . |
| 3 | Ultimately , the urge to move on that afflicted so many media people , and Florian more severely than most , would demand satisfaction , but she suspected that Luke would be shrewd enough to tempt him with an offer of his choice of all the other stations in which he had an interest . |
| 4 | Well Stu does a great Bruce Forsyth impression and appears to be perfecting Jimmy Hill as well , so ply him with beer and he 'll have a word with the Chelsea Chopper . |
| 5 | The former England batsman also claimed that Donald was not a one-day cricketer and that Warwickshire only used him with the new ball in such games . |
| 6 | It alone provided him with an ideal of peace . |
| 7 | The fact that such an occupation was un-likely to provide him with a living did nothing to deter him . |
| 8 | Minto not only provided him with plenty of Screwtape- style domestic situations . |
| 9 | As he sipped his wine in the bright , busy square , he thought that although the language was certainly a problem and one that he would have to continue to struggle with , it only provided him with an excuse , really , an excuse for why he had not been able to get down to the job of looking for Elsie . |
| 10 | They also display all the features of a volcanicity that lasted late enough to terrify Palaeolithic man and perhaps to provide him with his fire . |
| 11 | She constantly pestered him with telephone calls , messages and even turned up at his home . |
| 12 | Now however , it only fills him with horror , the chill marble is like the cold of the corpse . |
| 13 | He walked into the corridor , tiredness suddenly overcoming him with the prospect of a few hours off , and very nearly knocked Catherine Crane over in his preoccupation . |
| 14 | The elder was behaving as if parties of white women were constantly presenting him with gunpowder . |
| 15 | BBC TV issued an apology to Saracens lock Mark Langley after wrongly linking him with an incident that put Gloucester 's Marcus Hannaford in hospital at the weekend . |
| 16 | The king personally rewarded him with the Victorian Order , fourth class , but broke off relations when the disgruntled recipient of the decoration returned it the following day . |
| 17 | But he was troubled ; his low birth had hitherto endowed him with a most precious obscurity to sweeten with sons and with the presence of his God . |
| 18 | There might not be money for Frederick Bissett 's salary or funds enough to supply him with badly needed back-up , but by God , oh yes , there was money for the building programme . |
| 19 | His new habit of sleeping on and on to rid himself of as much time as possible and then of staying up drinking alone until very late only left him with none of his natural good time and hour upon hour of his bad . |
| 20 | By looking for faults in his behaviour , by constantly diminishing him with little criticisms — he neglected their boy ( at school in Randung ) , he was cold , he was selfish , he was an inadequate and clumsy lover ( did she dare ) , he never listened to other people , he had no sense of direction because he was always getting her lost in foreign capitals — she made him feel a kind of leper , different from and inferior to the run of men . |
| 21 | It was only Cranmer who was brave enough to confront him with the evidence of the infidelities of the adored young Queen of his middle age , Catherine Howard . |
| 22 | It was impossible not to compare him with her stepfather , so cold , reserved and cautious , and whose passions seemed solely aroused by his business and moneymaking skill . |
| 23 | Robert can see Henry 's star quality and has already aligned him with an animal talent agency ( Satch 's Animals ) , although his one date with the cameras so far — for a Lucozade commercial — was n't exactly a smash . |
| 24 | Fitzosbert , however , had already dismissed him with a flicker of his eyes and was staring coolly at Sir John as if to prove he was not cowed by any show of authority . |
| 25 | The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time . |
| 26 | Her betrothed leapt back to his feet , his hand going to the knife at his belt , but Cranston just dismissed him with a contemptuous flicker of his eyes . |
| 27 | The regime thus charged him with damage of government property and jailed him for a few months until he was released under a general amnesty . |
| 28 | However , I was not prepared just to accept him with no experience at all and I asked him to give me some sort of evidence about the amount of flying he had done . |
| 29 | She no longer provided him with a defence against his own yearning for safety which had been so well hidden behind his off-hand behaviour . |
| 30 | The touch of Asuryan was no longer so strong in his mind , and the Sword of Khaine no longer provided him with near limitless strength . |