Example sentences of "[to-vb] him with [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Thompson at your service , ’ said the landlord coming to meet him with a welcoming smile which disappeared quickly as he saw Midnight — his glance sliding from the metal collar to the handcuffs and on to Jess 's flushed face .
2 However , I was not prepared just to accept him with no experience at all and I asked him to give me some sort of evidence about the amount of flying he had done .
3 In 1980 , the owner approached a local architect , John Wharton , to provide him with a design that could be easily executed by direct labour and it was immediately apparent that exploitation of the high volume of the main east-west wing of the building would be the best way of obtaining the maximum accommodation .
4 The fact that such an occupation was un-likely to provide him with a living did nothing to deter him .
5 The Octobrist party , whose leaders attempted to provide him with a base of support within the Duma , found themselves coming under increasing criticism , and the party fell apart .
6 I am grateful for that because it enables me to provide him with a fuller response on those points than I might otherwise have been able to do .
7 Bounderby 's mother , a decent hard-working woman who managed to provide him with an education .
8 Charles behaved rather like a landlord who could take a long view of the future and expect his possessions to provide him with an income in the fullness of time .
9 Edmund Langley , born in 1342 and created Earl of Cambridge in 1362 , was granted part of the Warenne inheritance to maintain his estate , but his marriage to Isabella , youngest daughter of Pedro I of Castile , was used to further Gaunt 's diplomatic schemes rather than to provide him with an adequate endowment .
10 The burdens and lack of stability of his social community became unbearable and the poet yearns for an age of permanence and simplicity to provide him with an alternative to the real world .
11 Crowds were to provide him with the project that kept him busy for decades , the writing of Crowds And Power .
12 Promises quite often concern the actions of others : to consent to be governed by another is to promise to obey him ; to consent to his joining the expedition is to promise to provide him with the facilities and the help made available to members of the expedition .
13 For the first time I refused to provide him with the refuge he so obviously wanted and the uncritical comfort that he craved .
14 ‘ Azadi said that I had just twenty-four hours to provide him with the exact location of the ship — or else I would be executed .
15 The purpose of serving a contemnor with a copy of the committal order is to enable him to have a written record of the findings made by the court and of the sentence and to provide him with the materials necessary to enable him to decide whether or not he wishes to appeal .
16 A similar reason was given for refusing the remedy to a convicted prisoner who brought an action against the Home Secretary and the prison governor requiring them to provide him with the necessary medical treatment in accordance with the Prison Rules .
17 Ultimately , the urge to move on that afflicted so many media people , and Florian more severely than most , would demand satisfaction , but she suspected that Luke would be shrewd enough to tempt him with an offer of his choice of all the other stations in which he had an interest .
18 Just how weak were Rank 's budgetary controls can be seen from their dealings with Gabriel Pascal , the Hungarian producer whose brief career was built on his having persuaded George Bernard Shaw to trust him with the film rights to his plays .
19 And with Earl Robert the saint condescended to tease him with a paradox !
20 ‘ Between the cup and the lip it has pleased the Great Disposer of events to visit him with the greatest of all afflictions in the bereavement of his most affectionate wife .
21 The League ruled that the striking off of Grima from the Widnes register and an attempt to replace him with the Tongan forward , Boblyn Tuavao , was ‘ unacceptable ’ .
22 It would be folly to replace him with the inexperienced Mr Kinnock .
23 In fact , he was already discussing it in his office when he discovered that Paramount were in the middle of a feud with Redford and were just about to serve him with a writ .
24 On April 17 , security officials interrupted the Good Friday service of Mgr Roche to serve him with an expulsion order .
25 There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea .
26 I can see nothing in principle to prevent a contemnor applying to the first instance court to be released from custody on the ground that the failure to serve him with the committal order has kept him in ignorance of the contempts for which he has been imprisoned and that , in the circumstances , justice requires his release .
27 [ William Golding , The Inheritors ] It requires careful attention to realize that here we are seeing , through the uncomprehending mind of Lok , a man 's attempt to shoot him with an arrow .
28 Just the place to arrest him with a minimum of trouble . ’
29 So she tried not to feel envious when Jill Herbert was sent to help him with a lumbar puncture .
30 In February 1986 a retired CIA agent , asked by North to help him with the contras , mentioned the request to Casey .
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