Example sentences of "[vb pp] him with a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | During his first week , Mrs Jordan had visited him with a homemade fruitcake . |
2 | It was as if she had shot him with a tranquillising dart . |
3 | and as he 's done that the mates behind him have shot him with a real gun , his gone , his gone |
4 | Sylvie had told him with a dreamy insouciance that Katherine was away in Boston , staying with a charming man called Thomas Sachs . |
5 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
6 | The Minister of War probably had the most influential voice , for one of his officials , Dmitrii Miliutin — older brother of Nikolai , the " enlightened bureaucrat " who had redesigned St Petersburg 's municipal administration in 1846 — had armed him with a wide-ranging and incisive brief entitled " On the danger of continuing military action in 1856 " . |
7 | In the process Kurt had graduated from business adviser to trusted friend ; Hugo had rewarded him with a fifteen per cent share of the business and never regretted it . |
8 | Herluin had opened his mouth and drawn breath to ride over his presumptuous novice with a torrent of indignant words , but then held his breath even before the abbot had cautioned him with a peremptory hand . |
9 | The official receiver or whoever is the chairman of the meeting must certify the appointment of the trustee , but not until the per son appointed has provided him with a written statement that he is a qualified insolvency practitioner and consents to act ( r 6.120(2) ) . |
10 | Pip 's servant at Barnard 's Inn , whom he nicknames ‘ the Avenger ’ because ‘ after I had made the monster ( out of the refuse of my washerwoman 's family ) and had clothed him with a blue coat , canary waistcoat , white cravat , creamy breeches , and [ top boots ] , I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat ; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence ’ . |
11 | Town rallied and had a good effort from Kenny Campbell , well saved by keeper , Andy Hopping , after Roger Charles had found him with a great cross , but Harefield went in at half time with a deserved one nil lead . |
12 | The boy fixed him with a final look , but said no more , and slipped away into the crowd , only turning back once more . |
13 | Like Paul , he had trained for the law in youth , and it had left him with a certain accuracy . |
14 | It had left him with a pronounced limp in his left leg . |
15 | Peter says that the weekend has left him with a lasting impression of the professionalism of the TA . |
16 | For Wesker , the fortunes of Shylock have been all too typical of a career plagued by bad luck which has left him with a sizeable canon of rarely performed work . |
17 | Mario described himself to me as a hungry kid , adding that maybe those early experiences had left him with a permanent sense of insecurity . |
18 | His early days underground working alongside miners on the coal-face have imbued him with a special rapport with the thousands of miners he now oversees as chairman of British Coal . |