Example sentences of "[vb past] [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 | While Violette entertained them with stories of increasing complexity , Katherine from beneath lowered lids stole occasional glances at Carlo . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When the children were ill , she dosed them with herb teas that she brewed herself . |
| 5 | The self-abnegation of Friends , emptying themselves the better to be filled by the Light Within , did not then necessarily exclude the pursuit of righteousness in the world ; equally , in the outlook of growing numbers of Quakers in the early nineteenth century , this stance could merge with a stress on the experience of grace which aligned them with evangelicals . |
| 6 | For the traditional élites , it was not charisma but pragmatic power considerations which aligned them with Hitler . |
| 7 | At last some passed me with books ; I stopped them , and found the books to be Bibles : it was all clear now , they were going to a week-day preaching , and shortly after , as the road wound down a glen over a burn , I met the Free Church minister on his way to the place of meeting . |
| 8 | Malcolm Crosby of Sunderland almost became the first caretaker manager to win the FA Cup until Liverpool doused them with reality . |
| 9 | They charged me with possession of cannabis . |
| 10 | Fearful that they would disappear without trace , the prosecutor rearrested them before they could leave the building , and later charged them with possession of cannabis , with intent to supply . |
| 11 | I did think about it and asked to see him again , and once again he visited me with Patrick Nairne . |
| 12 | Yes and they they provided me with boxes of tapes and batteries and eh Walkman and so on and so forth and eh , I 'm trying to be conscientious . |
| 13 | For what had visited me in my weakest hour and provided me with food if not that damned creation of Frankenstein 's ? |
| 14 | One compositor , Jean Henderson whose daughter kindly provided me with information , went into the trade ( in the 1890s , that is some time after the earliest entrants ) straight from the Dean Orphanage , where she had received a good education ( see Plate 1 ) . |
| 15 | Oh , it drenched me with pleasure , even more than contemptible . |
| 16 | His tongue tattooed them with circles of heat . |
| 17 | During the summer and early autumn she helped me with Government aid and guided me in the direction of private aid . |
| 18 | She helped me with advice , support and encouragement to bring humanitarian aid to the Shias who have escaped and are in the camps in south Iran . |
| 19 | The Bradford Ukrainian Society was particularly supportive and provided them with dictionaries , contacts and artwork . |
| 20 | Erm I think last year , Well what I 've got to do , I 've got last year National Grid provided them with pens . |
| 21 | It provided them with assistance in their education , in their hospitals , actually one of the biggest hospitals in the occupied lands in Palestine , it was funded more than seventy per cent by Kuwaiti governments and their university was also from tuition and the salaries of professors they are all sponsored by the Kuwait government . |
| 22 | The Revolution had impinged on their consciousness only in so far as it provided them with land , or took away foodstuffs during War Communism . |
| 23 | So they set about it , with the help of a co-op development agency , which provided them with management services . |
| 24 | Such an attitude , though unfavourable to the concept of a universal church , could be of great benefit to cathedrals , monasteries , and parish churches , because it provided them with protectors , and because often a high standard of religious observance could be stimulated by family pride . |
| 25 | On occasion the underlying philosophy was extremely crude , recommending that ‘ if you provided them with footballs and made them kick footballs , they would not be so inclined to kick policemen in the street ’ . |
| 26 | The August sun entered them with gusto . |
| 27 | Rasped the feet all up , and blacked them with black ; made them look spick and span . |
| 28 | You do you see things like that so tonight okay I helped you with sausages but you got most of it . |
| 29 | Then , just as I was convinced of your innocence , I discovered you 'd lied about your brother and I caught you with Rainald . |
| 30 | Out to provoke Theo into a declaration of loyalty , and at the same time sting him for continuing to belong to a hated class , he charged him with hypocrisy and self-righteousness in refusing to belong to either side . |