Example sentences of "[vb infin] him with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Assistant manager Eddie Stein , who had taken temporary control , said : ‘ The chairman did ask me how I felt about Barry possibly coming back earlier this week and I told him I 'd welcome him with open arms .
2 ‘ But they 'll welcome him with open arms , bringing them medical aid .
3 Did I welcome him with open arms ?
4 In the event , inhabitants of Štanjel , although they were certainly not unkind to him , did not exactly welcome him with open arms .
5 Conrad , meanwhile , was marching northward in the mistaken belief that desultory Russian mobilization would present him with little opposition from the east .
6 With all that liquid I 'm not surprised can you watch him with that tin ?
7 Local officers did n't immediately associate him with violent crime .
8 She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead .
9 ‘ The only time I can remember him with any coat at all was when we wintered him out as a three or four-year old , which we did deliberately to toughen him up . ’
10 She could not provide him with small talk , or prod him to abandon his silences .
11 And the Earl of Warwick might well provide him with additional escort .
12 Political theories could not provide him with any answers .
13 He had positioned himself in a narrow doorway , in the vain hope it would provide him with some shelter from the biting cold .
14 Cameron do n't poke him with long poles .
15 You must prod him with coloured pencils , or tell him he must be joking when he makes heavy weather of something that another author does neatly .
16 Life grew greyer by the day , but Gina could always surprise him with new horrors .
17 Mr Rampton asked : ‘ Suppose you had somebody in your hands who had behaved badly … is it in those circumstances right to hand him back to somebody who would treat him with equal brutality ? ’
18 I did shock him with one answer , cos he he was expecting a totally different answer to the one I gave him which was correct , and you know that is unusual for me , but er I did shock him with one , but other than that it was erm it was er an excellent input all the way through the day , and they explained the differences and why they er approved some products and not the others , things like that , it was er spot on .
19 The most he conceded was that Claire Fraser was nice and did n't pester him with silly questions .
20 We can still charge him with reckless behaviour .
21 ‘ If you do n't ask him with 100 percent commitment and effort he wo n't do it , yet the feeling I got when it suddenly clicked was just amazing ! ’
22 So you must help him with these definitions .
23 ‘ Why did you kill him with such violence , Terry ? ’
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