Example sentences of "[vb past] them 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 | Malcolm Crosby of Sunderland almost became the first caretaker manager to win the FA Cup until Liverpool doused them with reality . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His tongue tattooed them with circles of heat . |
| 10 | The Bradford Ukrainian Society was particularly supportive and provided them with dictionaries , contacts and artwork . |
| 11 | Erm I think last year , Well what I 've got to do , I 've got last year National Grid provided them with pens . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Revolution had impinged on their consciousness only in so far as it provided them with land , or took away foodstuffs during War Communism . |
| 14 | So they set about it , with the help of a co-op development agency , which provided them with management services . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | The August sun entered them with gusto . |
| 18 | Rasped the feet all up , and blacked them with black ; made them look spick and span . |
| 19 | We ate them with cheese . |
| 20 | Two years ago a large building company bought up the remaining fields between the sites and the village and filled them with retirement homes . |
| 21 | She snatched up three tankards and filled them with ale , her movements swift and practised . |
| 22 | He surveyed them with loathing . |
| 23 | Paul delighted them with plans and perspectives for an irregularly shaped weatherboard construction cleverly built around a venerable tamarind tree , using its branches as an informal canopy to shade the seats below . |
| 24 | Peter faced them with flint , and now they make a splendid feature , with lots of interesting things at eye level . |
| 25 | Opposite right : Part of the Eastern Treasures range from Mr Tomkinson , this exotic Sarouk design was originally created by the craftsmen of Persia who wove exquisite medallions and interlaced them with leaves , buds and flowers |
| 26 | Her crew were idle so she armed them with brushes and mops and set them to scrub the magnificent monument clean . |
| 27 | The women of the family struck their faces and smeared them with soot . |
| 28 | They constituted an ethnic minority , had a tribal organization independent of the Zuwaya , and an identity and language which linked them with Chad . |
| 29 | She drew from an enormous hold-all an array of archaeological cakes and buns , and displayed them with pride . |
| 30 | Fournier , more relaxed himself , observed them with detachment . |