Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After presenting me with a bag of tomatoes , she glanced at my mangled leg and made the pronouncement . |
| 2 | Young members of Prescot Swimming club gather round Stephen Orford , a member of the British Wheelchair basketball team , after presenting him with a cheque for £750 on behalf of the British Wheelchair Sports Foundation . |
| 3 | I recall a Saturday midday lecture to Oxford undergraduate and graduate students in the 1970s when , after riveting them with a talk about double fluorescent labelling , he asked if they would be interested in hearing about experiments on motor systems ; they said they would and they abandoned lunch to listen . |
| 4 | Scar-faced Moore , 33 , dragged two-year-old Clare and David , four , from their mother 's arms after threatening her with a sawn-off shotgun . |
| 5 | One evening , after threatening her with a knife , he raped and then stabbed her . |
| 6 | Hunter carved a hideous noughts and crosses pattern on Heidi 's naked bottom after strangling her with a belt . |
| 7 | TENDERISE tough meat by marinating it in any kind of citrus juice or by spooning juice over the meat after piercing it with a fork . |
| 8 | After killing it with the knife he dressed quickly . |
| 9 | By the time he came to work with Lawford , Sinatra 's reputation for roughing it with the press was already growing . |
| 10 | ‘ My son was very cross with me for burdening you with the basket of flowers . ’ |
| 11 | The basic guidelines is erm if somebody is a danger to themselves or other people then perhaps there is some way of helping them with an enforced medication or hospital treatment . |
| 12 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 13 | Once this idea is accepted in principle , it remains to ask at what stage a grasp of the mutual dependence between social theory and social science might be capable of helping us with the problem of holism . |
| 14 | As far as the Science Museum is concerned it 's a question of helping it with the whole game of raising finance and all the other things they have to do . |
| 15 | no would of drawn that , I would of checked it with the |
| 16 | To be fair to myself , ’ she added with a faint smile , ‘ if you will insist on looking like the original swinging teenager it 's small wonder that the thought of trusting you with a really ill man put the fear of God up me . ’ |
| 17 | She wondered if there was the faintest chance of impressing them with the significance of her position . |
| 18 | On Friday , though , Alesi had been the top man as he claimed the overnight pole , but he lost any chance of keeping it with a wall-bashing incident , which came as no surprise to anyone who had watched his outrageously extrovert efforts . |
| 19 | And he was on the brink , she sensed , of surprising her with a confidence . |
| 20 | Sec. in his report gave a resume of the year 's business and in particular referred to the proposed museum and the difficulties of establishing it with the very limited resources at the Society 's disposal . |
| 21 | This must be done with the object of replacing them with a single rational religion compatible with human needs and unrelated to blind and futile faith in unproven ‘ gods ‘ . |
| 22 | A GIS is capable of identifying such slivers and allowing the user the choice of leaving them as they are or of replacing them with an average boundary position . |
| 23 | Supervised by Rover apprentices , the pupils ripped out an old lecture theatre and are in the process of replacing it with a multi-purpose room which , it is hoped , will help to bridge the gulf between industry and education . |
| 24 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 25 | What are the prospects of obtaining a quantum theory of gravity and of unifying it with the other three categories of interactions ? |
| 26 | I 've already telephoned the Consulate , ’ he added , in the hope of soothing her with a half-truth . |
| 27 | If the chest is forced open , the same trap will be triggered , save that there 's no chance of defusing it with the extra lock-turn . |
| 28 | The Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria ( CITUB ) and the Podkrepa ( " Support " ) Labour Confederation walked out of talks with the government on April 14 , accusing it of presenting them with a fait accompli over price liberalization . |
| 29 | If you have decided on this as your opening sequence , you may like the idea of beginning it with a fade in on a close-up of some brightly lit seasonal decoration in a shopping precinct — the face of a life-size Santa would be an ideal way to set the mood . |
| 30 | James II 's marriage to Mary of Gueldres had the attraction of providing him with a queen who came from the great artillery-making centre of northern Europe . |