Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you 've made your gifts to the various museums , you have given them with the stipulation that none of the works of art may ever be sold . |
| 2 | Treadwell certainly had n't mentioned any of this when Spruce had interviewed them with the Bishop . |
| 3 | I felt proud that Mr Rochester had trusted me with the story of his past life . |
| 4 | Therese had been studying them as soon as the Direktor had telephoned her with the news of the productions and her roles . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I wanted to tell her this was n't quite true , that I had had no choice , but her grey , tired look stopped me : it would hurt her too much , I thought , to feel I had not trusted her with the truth in the beginning . |
| 7 | It was barely four months since Randolph Fields had first approached him with the idea of starting an airline . |
| 8 | I have also included it with the map of Boo¨tes , since it so obviously belongs to the Boo¨tes pattern . |
| 9 | ‘ Our visit has impressed us with the skill and the quality of our soldiers , and with the risks they run . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You have presented me with the key , and I now perceive all of its hitherto latent beauties . ’ |
| 13 | Nina had stabbed him with the syringe . |
| 14 | The attacker claimed that Carter had threatened him with the knife and when he tried to take it from him , Carter had been wounded . |
| 15 | Almost all the murders that the police solve in real life are either dealt with in a matter of hours ( the husband done it with the kitchen knife ) or as a result of long , long , tedious inquiries , mostly house-to-house , the taking of fingerprints and the elimination of perhaps thousands of marginal suspects . |
| 16 | If only he could have done it with the Palace ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All Governments use guillotines , but no Government have used them with the frequency of this Administration . |
| 19 | I think being a bit older has helped me with the course . |
| 20 | They 've helped me with the baby , they take her away for a couple of hours a day , and they take you out to places — sports centres and hospitals . |
| 21 | It was again Aisa Briggs who said now come on , you know , we 've helped you with the movie , come and do some work for the university , and I did n't need any encouragement . |
| 22 | It was not long before his medical knowledge had ingratiated him with the prison doctor and afforded him all sorts of privileges . |
| 23 | around about it , like whether we liked it or not , whether he was , it was a good thing to have had it , we should have been better not to have had it with the situation at the time , you know , that kind of mulling over might be |
| 24 | It had been barely two years since she had opened it with the money her father had left her . |
| 25 | God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In the Inca state this process of regression seems not merely to have profoundly compromised the superego and to have replaced it with the person of the Inca and his fellow Children of the Sun , but also to have attacked the ego in general and to have reduced the Indians to an apathetic , dependent and passive state in which the higher ego-functions of decision-making , initiative , and individuality were markedly reduced . |
| 28 | Rachaela reduced the fifteen-pound necklace to the prescribed fourteen pounds and carefully replaced it with the price tag face down . |
| 29 | He has raised it with the contractor . |
| 30 | Dear Rothenstein , Now that the Mexican president has provided you with the beak and talons of an Aztec eagle you may perhaps feel better equipped to face me in open contest . |