Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] with " in BNC.

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1 At the junction of the Welford branch , a boat from Welford met them with ample supplies of refreshments to fortify them against the passage of Bosworth tunnel .
2 Trent met it with a slight movement of the tiller bar , and the big catamaran lifted smoothly .
3 Peregrine interrupted her with a languid chortle and was properly admonished .
4 I must have said that several times already because Ma fixed me with a glittering stare and exclaimed , ‘ If you say that word once more , Andrew , just once more , I 'll send you to the Science Museum again … with Annabel . ’
5 Ezra provided me with a standard ; and gingered me into an attempt to train towards it .
6 She was nineteen , the age Maria had been when she had first felt the power of Luke 's attraction , and Maria regarded her with ironic envy , wishing she could have reacted as insouciantly , her awe and admiration as impersonal as Penny 's , Luke confined to some remote pedestal along with other out-of-reach heroes , contact undreamed-of .
7 When Stoker approached him with a play intended for his master , Irving , taking no thought of the devotion shown by his factotum , reacted along a scale from dismissiveness to contempt .
8 Gary helped him with his chemistry and deserves much of the credit for the good grades William got in tests when he got back ( the teachers were amazed ! ) .
9 Roger approached her with another tall , fair man .
10 Postine subdued it with a single blow to its long wrinkled neck .
11 Santerre was about to protest but Mandeville dismissed him with a curt move of his gloved hand .
12 Straightening up , Roman regarded her with an unreadable expression .
13 All the same , if it happened that David made her with child , she would bear the child proudly , and be glad that she had brought him a degree of happiness .
14 Sandy was doing a trash all-nighter at the Scala , and Dionne met them with a cocktail shaker .
15 In breaks in our work Edward entertained me with curious stories of the old alchemists .
16 Mountbatten 's task was not simplified when General MacArthur saddled him with the additional responsibility of taking over Indonesia and Indo-China , previously within the American sphere .
17 Scalding tears brimmed over , and James Halden checked them with the cushion of his thumb .
18 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 ? ’
19 Woolley stopped it with his fork .
20 ‘ The itinerary , ’ Mary Ann pronounced it with care .
21 Ranulf came in with a series of plaintive questions but Corbett dismissed him with a look .
22 She enjoyed attending to the whitewashed chapel where compulsory prayers were conducted three times a day and did not feel ill-used when Mrs Prynn chastised her with a whip for letting slip a blasphemy or lying abed longer than she ought .
23 Interviewed by , of all newspapers , The Daily Worker ( now The Morning Star ) , Raymond Cusick provided them with a colour illustration interpreting his idea of what lay inside .
24 THE THOUGHT OF ASCENDING BEN NEVIS ON A SATURDAY FILLED ME WITH dread .
25 ‘ The king my father learned of my regard for yourself from Sir Thomas Vaughan who saw it as his duty to inform him , ’ Edward told her with notable reluctance .
26 If Alice or Bert filled it with hot water and it leaked causing injury , would either of them have an action ?
27 Cunningham defended it with every weapon he could muster .
28 Hitch killed them with my gun on Plummer 's orders .
29 Edward observed him with a certain bitterness ; such simplicity of need could seem enviable .
30 Woolley touched it with the muzzle of his gun .
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