Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] with the " in BNC.

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1 He was obviously peeved that we 'd squared it with the music teacher while he did n't know anything about it .
2 He 'd threatened her with the direst reprisals if she dared to leave their suite , not guessing that wild horses would n't drag her away until she 'd cleared the whole matter up .
3 The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ?
4 She had taught him with the thrashing that he would be punished if he was caught !
5 After the Blefuscans had arranged everything with the Lilliputian officials , they came to visit me .
6 Therese had been studying them as soon as the Direktor had telephoned her with the news of the productions and her roles .
7 Treadwell certainly had n't mentioned any of this when Spruce had interviewed them with the Bishop .
8 They had shopped round Belfast and she had teased her with the idea that this Parr was very rich , they had gone by train to Dublin and she had claimed he was ‘ hand in glove ’ with government circles there .
9 I felt proud that Mr Rochester had trusted me with the story of his past life .
10 Nina had stabbed him with the syringe .
11 They also knew that the arrested men were respectable and law-abiding and they were highly indignant when they heard that an official spokesman had smeared them with the suggestion of criminal activities .
12 By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly .
13 Instead , they had fed it with the only food he knew .
14 I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man .
15 That would have been absurd because the word , ‘ converts , ’ itself implied that the bailee had done something with the bailed goods which was not authorised by the terms of the bailment .
16 I had expected , perhaps because the image she had presented me with the week before had been more domestic , someone less ambiguous and far less assured .
17 The attacker claimed that Carter had threatened him with the knife and when he tried to take it from him , Carter had been wounded .
18 The Rectory , when she reached it ten minutes later , was as silent and calm as when she had visited it with the Archdeacon on Saturday evening .
19 James had armed himself with the sword of Robert the Bruce , but it stood him in poor stead .
20 The teacher had helped them with the capital letter to begin the sentence and the full stop at the end .
21 It was not long before his medical knowledge had ingratiated him with the prison doctor and afforded him all sorts of privileges .
22 It had been barely two years since she had opened it with the money her father had left her .
23 Kate had surprised herself with the intensity of her response .
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 Meh'Lindi had injected herself with the Polymorphine .
26 Appreciation that he had provided her with the escape route she had so badly sought ?
27 After Iraq was condemned for its use of chemical weapons , President Khamenei was quoted as having wished the UN had gone on to take steps against both Iraq and the states which had provided it with the means to manufacture such weapons .
28 The possibility of a long poem clearly inspired him and , almost as soon as he had settled himself with the Mirrlees , he began to work upon the next poem in the sequence .
29 There were many times in the past years when he had wondered why on earth he had involved himself with the Hochhauser Season , times when he was worried , exhausted , furious , and prepared to consign the whole company to hell .
30 Fei Yen was looking down , the p'ip'a resting loosely against her breasts , her whole frame bent forward , as if she had emptied herself with the song .
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