Example sentences of "[vb past] him with [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Stockton police yesterday arrested a drunken man in Nelson Terrace and charged him with shoplifting .
4 First , his trustee , Mr Basden , charged him with contempt of court for failing to produce statements of his financial affairs over the preceding five years , and Hooley was eventually committed to Brixton Prison for a month .
5 There were people who provided him with houses — such as that in Bethany — which were comfortable and large enough to accommodate , at the very least , his immediate entourage .
6 Mrs Maxwell provided him with £500,000 after the death of her husband Robert because her son was in trouble , she says in an affidavit signed for liquidators of the private Maxwell companies .
7 Most lucrative of all , at the end of his life , was his farm of the customs on imported silks , which provided him with £1,333 per annum up to 1610 and £7,000 per annum for the next two years .
8 When William I was to meet Alexander III in 1887 , Bismarck provided him with notes which included the words ‘ Au temps où nous vivons plus qu'ä aucune autre époque de l'histoire , il est de l'intérêt des grandes monarchies d'éviter la guerre … même en Allemagne — si contre toute attente nous venions à ètre vaincus — les chances de la république dêmocratique ou sociale gagneraient considérablement par notre défaite . ’
9 But she provided him with loyalty , sensible advice and a closely shared experience of life for over fifty years .
10 A week later , of his own volition , he provided him with proof that Albrecht Haushofer had written to Douglas , Duke of Hamilton , before the war — and that Hamilton had shown the letter to Winston Churchill at his Morpeth Mansions flat .
11 The bank provided him with £40,000 which , coupled with his redundancy money , provided the £70,000 he needed to get started .
12 It was held that the employers were in breach of their personal duty of care , as they should have told the plaintiff to test the sashes to see if they were loose and provided him with wedges .
13 A likely explanation is that , although in book 2 he again collaborated with Danchet ( nos. 1–4 ) , and worked with another eminent librettist , Fuselier ( nos. 5–6 ) , they provided him with poems whose dramatic interest is uneven .
14 Being attracted to books dealing with history and legend he soon created an imaginary world of his own , and birds and reptiles provided him with companionship until at the age of nine he was eventually sent to a preparatory school in Dartford .
15 Many of Richard Gough 's contemporaries provided him with information about a wide range of cousins and about ancestors going back several generations .
16 Like the politics of the miners which seamed through the talk of his brothers , never as vivid as the ‘ stories ’ but always there , those early films provided him with examples of acting which he must have absorbed willy-nilly .
17 He recalls how God visited him with sickness , as he does others , and how he suffered a ‘ wyld infirmytie ’ , as everyone knew , that ‘ me owt of my selfe cast and threw ’ .
18 Walter also developed models that mimicked brain systems and this involved him with Norbert Wiener and others in early work on cybernetics .
19 I caught him with picklocks and braces ,
20 I found him with Liza sitting on the edge of the bed fully dressed reading a comic .
21 She found him with Jan Coggan , sharpening the shears which would be used to shear the sheep .
22 The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure .
23 This was the first thought he had ever had of the commune , it was at that moment it first came to him , out on the terrace sitting beside Rufus under Hilbert 's umbrella , while the Vermstroy man hunted his quarry along the woodland streams and Mary pursued him with cries of protest .
24 Mr Bullins regarded him with approval .
25 He knew that Franca and the nurse regarded him with hostility .
26 She helped him with chores , gathering branches or rounding up cattle , or just stayed to keep him company while he worked .
27 He found a new patron in John Evelyn , who encouraged him to come to London , where Sheldon also helped him with money .
28 Most mornings she woke him with coffee and the newspapers .
29 Murtach was greeted by name more than once , and one of the Hearthwares bent to receive a spray of honeysuckle from a dark-eyed girl who ogled him with adoration , to the amusement of his comrades .
30 ‘ He wo n't , ’ Karelius assured him with confidence .
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