Example sentences of "[prep] him with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seated himself comfortably in a chair opposite the bed , and hooked a footstool towards him with the toe of his shoe . |
| 2 | He held his spear gun out in front of him with the safety off and used his flippers to keep facing the fish . |
| 3 | ‘ It was a disgrace the way they treated Gower because in the last Test against Pakistan , before this tour , he did everything that was asked of him with the bat . |
| 4 | I always carry some with me , but I hope I never have to use it because I do n't think I 'd get near him with the needle . ’ |
| 5 | Morrissey asked his old friend , former Easterhouse guitarist Ivor Perry ( then with the infant Cradle ) to work with him with the possibility of Perry becoming Marr 's replacement . |
| 6 | They need not prove that the accused had it with him with the intention of using it to cause injury to the person . |
| 7 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ he replies and goes on to ask her to take care of two suitcases full of Austrian shoes he has brought with him with the intention of selling on the black market . |
| 8 | The first glimpse of Father Philip had made his heart turn and contract in him with the pain of the memories that tugged him back towards Aber , older memories than the bitterness and anger that had driven him away . |
| 9 | His literary prowess was now enforcing itself upon him with the urgency of a destiny , as with all true writers , ‘ born , not made ’ . |
| 10 | One man alone remembered his forgotten humanity , and the Spirit of God flared within him with the brightness of Eden , and against the crowd , with the dignity of a true son of God , he offered some unrefined wine on a sponge to the dying king . |
| 11 | He fumbled a packet from the pocket of his anorak and I lit one for him with the dashboard lighter . |
| 12 | Well , he fired a pistol and someone went for him with the blade of a scythe . ’ |
| 13 | She flirted outrageously , promising that she would secure an interview for him with the Queen but she always seemed to fail . |
| 14 | When Betjeman failed his Divinity exams at the end of his first year , it would have been open to his tutor to plead for him with the College so that he could resit these comparatively unimportant exams and stay on at the University . |
| 15 | Hayling was also in charge of media initiatives , so Lowe naturally turned to him with the newspaper they had so often discussed as comrades in Big Flame . |
| 16 | His fleshy paunch was hanging over his sweaty jeans with the legs of his trousers clinging to him with the viscosity of four week old socks sticking to the bedroom wall . |
| 17 | An eager public woman appealed to him with the story of her cleaning woman , who had proved herself at fault . |
| 18 | Hayhurst was awarded the MBE for his work for deaf people , and the BDA has paid fitting and lasting tribute to him with the establishment of an " Allan Hayhurst Research Fellowship " , which enables a prelingually deaf person to undertake research in his chosen field for up to three years at Durham University , where the admission of deaf students is encouraged and special support services are provided . |
| 19 | Whilst Richard Baxter was visiting his sick father in Shropshire , Mr. Baldwin came to him with the news that he too had been forbidden to preach . |
| 20 | ‘ I really am sorry , ’ he repeated and wondered why it was that these lunches , designed as an escape from responsibility , had begun to weigh on him with the weariness of marriage itself . |
| 21 | At that lunch in the Oxford and Cambridge he was in the sombre mood that had descended on him with the signing of the Munich Agreement . |
| 22 | Saunders has a cloud over him with the possibility of legal action by Paul Elliott over a tackle which ruled out the Chelsea defender for the season . |
| 23 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 24 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 25 | He could not understand the familiarity of the elderly stranger , who gazed at him with the pride of a long-lost brother . |
| 26 | In the centre there Priam sits on an altar , a huge tripod behind , and reaches in supplication to Neoptolemos who strikes at him with the corpse of his grandson not saved by Andromache 's effort . |
| 27 | It was an arm 's length away and raising its head to hook at him with the horn that was already dark with his father 's blood when he discharged his second barrel . |
| 28 | She looked at him with the confidence of a beautiful woman who was used to getting her own way . |
| 29 | Maura looked at him with the arrogance of youth . |
| 30 | 1 held the metal box and chopped at him with the side of my hand , but it struck the sharp metal of the gun and I felt the flesh tear as one round fired . |