Example sentences of "[vb pp] him with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He 'd been slashing car tyres when approached him with a hammer . |
2 | It was barely four months since Randolph Fields had first approached him with the idea of starting an airline . |
3 | Nina had stabbed him with the syringe . |
4 | The attacker claimed that Carter had threatened him with the knife and when he tried to take it from him , Carter had been wounded . |
5 | Anand made the announcement after student leaders had presented him with a petition calling for the lifting of martial law . |
6 | He said that ‘ the powers that be ’ had presented him with a summons and the Protestant people had presented him with that book and he thought a parallel could be drawn between the two . |
7 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
8 | She had never seen him with an umbrella before . |
9 | But when you have equipped him with a wife — why , it will be in his interest to kill you ! ’ |
10 | I could have belted him with a bicycle chain . |
11 | A police inspector in Scotland Yard who owed him a favour — a slight matter of some indiscreet letters — had supplied him with a list of known criminals in Dublin , as well as a separate listing of all known Republican sympathizers . |
12 | ‘ Feeling ill , poor darling , ’ Ian had told him with a hint of malice underlying his display of concern . |
13 | It was not long before his medical knowledge had ingratiated him with the prison doctor and afforded him all sorts of privileges . |
14 | And he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenged him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Mr Grainger , who believes that the association could be the first of its kind in the country , has contacted the American Brain Tumour Association which has provided him with a wealth of information . |
17 | Mr Grainger , who believes that the association could be the first of its kind in the country , has contacted the American Brain Tumour Association which has provided him with a wealth of information . |
18 | His killer , a 16-year-old hired assassin who was wounded and captured , later claimed that a stranger had provided him with a submachine gun and directed him to kill the UP leader . |
19 | We had to do this because some chucklehead had provided him with a typist 's chair on castors and every time the truck turned left he did a circuit of the flat-back , sending everybody else flying . |
20 | The President accepted the law , but under protest , delighted that the Assembly had thereby provided him with a weapon which could be turned against them when the need arose . |
21 | There was a tinge of envy in his tone , for his humdrum childhood home in Croydon had not provided him with the kind of ‘ things ’ his taste now craved . |
22 | Or he could follow the Germans , who have duly provided him with an excuse for higher base rates at next week 's party conference — but have also made it abundantly clear that the Bundesbank is the dominant monetary authority in Europe , and our much-vaunted independence is so much poppy-cock . |
23 | The boy was by now so full of cake he was like a sackful of wet cement and you could n't have hurt him with a sledge-hammer . |
24 | She had taught him with the thrashing that he would be punished if he was caught ! |
25 | Robert can see Henry 's star quality and has already aligned him with an animal talent agency ( Satch 's Animals ) , although his one date with the cameras so far — for a Lucozade commercial — was n't exactly a smash . |
26 | Fitzosbert , however , had already dismissed him with a flicker of his eyes and was staring coolly at Sir John as if to prove he was not cowed by any show of authority . |
27 | Until then they had treated him with a mixture of sympathy as a man caught up , by line of duty , in a political imbroglio , and suspicion at what he might do to make things worse . |
28 | Ronni fixed him with a look that required no interpretation . |
29 | Ben … is a brilliant merchant banker , whose childhood in occupied Europe has scarred him with the legacy of an ‘ existential tardiness ’ ; he recoils from everything in life that demands a heady recklessness , and is doomed to live ‘ without hope in desire ’ . ’ |
30 | Mr Boyle was alleged to have struck him with the crowbar in a row over the sale of T-shirts . |