Example sentences of "[to-vb] they with a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And it stops you having to hit them with a brick .
2 You used to have to rub all your clothes and on this rub board or get a little brush and and scrub the s collar and your cuffs and then in the salt water and get all them in and then you used to have to ponch them with a ponch or a dolly peg , what used to go round like that you see .
3 No well we used to kill them with a stick but of course they used to lay the rabbits out at that time to see how many they caught cos that was a little bit of perks for the farm labourers they used to buy a rabbit for sixpence , then they go up to ninepence for a rabbit .
4 Pupils should be well prepared , and it is advisable to issue them with a guidance sheet that can be shown to the staff .
5 As we have seen , the operational balances are used for clearing purposes between the banks and to provide them with a source of liquidity .
6 The other 140 had to rely in varying degrees on transferred votes to provide them with a quota or something approaching it .
7 Three-quarters of all Germans now believe that the government has a duty to provide them with a job and a house .
8 ‘ If you were brought up in Brixton or Hackney , and have been stopped regularly for no reason by the police , you are bound to view them with a bit of hatred ’ … .
9 It would have been better to cover them with a tarpaulin , but he had forgotten to bring one , perhaps .
10 Streets which had looked short on the map seemed endless when one had to walk them with a suitcase .
11 In plating , components are dropped into various solutions to coat them with a metal such as zinc or aluminium .
12 ‘ Our juice packs carry warnings never to use them with a dummy or soother .
13 The facts are the facts , and I am compelled to record them with a plainness of detail which in the end offers the only means of extending that small degree of compassion , or perhaps even understanding , which all men in whatever circumstance or however degraded should not be denied .
14 And the cumulative effect on teachers — as we are seeing now — is to fill them with a sense of weary déjà vu when another good idea comes along , so that resistance to change becomes a reflex action , even when the teachers themselves , in their own quiet moments , know that some non-tinkering kind of change is needed , and , if they were in a different , less harassed , state , would likely welcome it .
15 Had the nails in his mouth you know and er used to knock 'em with a file .
16 Yeah we used to trim 'em with a hammer and chisel before
17 An alternative approach , and the one which is adopted in this study , is to have drivers explicitly performing a driving experiment , though not one that appears to be related to memory , and to present them with a surprise memory test later in the experiment .
18 He knows that many of those now present will be eager to go with him on this adventure , but first of all he would like to present them with a challenge .
19 HOME Secretary Kenneth Clarke was criticised by police officers yesterday for shelving plans to arm them with a truncheon they say could have protected injured policewoman Leslie Harrison from attack .
20 As she raised her little hammer to tap on the table , she wondered suddenly why the Advent had actually sent a reporter — they usually depended on the publicity secretary to supply them with a report .
21 Of course , our quiz is intended to be light-hearted , so if you disagree with the conclusions , feel free to take them with a pinch of salt .
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