Example sentences of "[vb pp] him with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been slashing car tyres when approached him with a hammer . |
| 2 | It was barely four months since Randolph Fields had first approached him with the idea of starting an airline . |
| 3 | During his first week , Mrs Jordan had visited him with a homemade fruitcake . |
| 4 | Nina had stabbed him with the syringe . |
| 5 | It was as if she had shot him with a tranquillising dart . |
| 6 | and as he 's done that the mates behind him have shot him with a real gun , his gone , his gone |
| 7 | The attacker claimed that Carter had threatened him with the knife and when he tried to take it from him , Carter had been wounded . |
| 8 | He said that ‘ the powers that be ’ had presented him with a summons and the Protestant people had presented him with that book and he thought a parallel could be drawn between the two . |
| 9 | Anand made the announcement after student leaders had presented him with a petition calling for the lifting of martial law . |
| 10 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 11 | She had never seen him with an umbrella before . |
| 12 | Millie 's evidently seen him with the slates coming off the roof and the storm cones flying . |
| 13 | But when you have equipped him with a wife — why , it will be in his interest to kill you ! ’ |
| 14 | I could have belted him with a bicycle chain . |
| 15 | A police inspector in Scotland Yard who owed him a favour — a slight matter of some indiscreet letters — had supplied him with a list of known criminals in Dublin , as well as a separate listing of all known Republican sympathizers . |
| 16 | In other words , if they had n't got him with the six he 'd never have gone bloody broke ! |
| 17 | ‘ Feeling ill , poor darling , ’ Ian had told him with a hint of malice underlying his display of concern . |
| 18 | Sylvie had told him with a dreamy insouciance that Katherine was away in Boston , staying with a charming man called Thomas Sachs . |
| 19 | It was not long before his medical knowledge had ingratiated him with the prison doctor and afforded him all sorts of privileges . |
| 20 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 21 | The Minister of War probably had the most influential voice , for one of his officials , Dmitrii Miliutin — older brother of Nikolai , the " enlightened bureaucrat " who had redesigned St Petersburg 's municipal administration in 1846 — had armed him with a wide-ranging and incisive brief entitled " On the danger of continuing military action in 1856 " . |
| 22 | And he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenged him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 23 | In the process Kurt had graduated from business adviser to trusted friend ; Hugo had rewarded him with a fifteen per cent share of the business and never regretted it . |
| 24 | Sir John Fastolf , involved in a long drawn-out lawsuit in Paris between 1432 and 1435 , could remind the court that he had been the first to jump into the sea when Henry V had come ashore in France in 1415 , and that the king had rewarded him with the grant of the first house which he had seen in France . |
| 25 | Herluin had opened his mouth and drawn breath to ride over his presumptuous novice with a torrent of indignant words , but then held his breath even before the abbot had cautioned him with a peremptory hand . |
| 26 | The President accepted the law , but under protest , delighted that the Assembly had thereby provided him with a weapon which could be turned against them when the need arose . |
| 27 | The official receiver or whoever is the chairman of the meeting must certify the appointment of the trustee , but not until the per son appointed has provided him with a written statement that he is a qualified insolvency practitioner and consents to act ( r 6.120(2) ) . |
| 28 | His killer , a 16-year-old hired assassin who was wounded and captured , later claimed that a stranger had provided him with a submachine gun and directed him to kill the UP leader . |
| 29 | We had to do this because some chucklehead had provided him with a typist 's chair on castors and every time the truck turned left he did a circuit of the flat-back , sending everybody else flying . |
| 30 | Mr Grainger , who believes that the association could be the first of its kind in the country , has contacted the American Brain Tumour Association which has provided him with a wealth of information . |