Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 2 | The husband will be presumed , in the ordinary case where husband and wife live together , and she orders goods to meet the household needs , to have authorized her to pledge his credit for that purpose , unless he has supplied her with sufficient ready money . |
| 3 | She has been grateful to leave the arguing to him and has rewarded him with gold medal after gold medal . |
| 4 | We are n't animals — God has blessed us with free will . |
| 5 | Whatever the outcome , the UK financial sector has entered a period of increasing risk and uncertainty in which it remains to be seen whether the deregulation of the 1980s has provided it with competitive advantages . |
| 6 | Dismissed as a novelty ever since it first began , rap has not only survived but has provided us with endless pleasures and variations . |
| 7 | via satellite and telecommunication links , sophisticated means of communication for a vast range of purposes including the control of spacecraft , weather forecasting and news transmission , and has provided us with vast and easily accessible data banks . |
| 8 | In some cases the territory is so good it does n't matter that a female has to share it with other females . |
| 9 | For those people whose ego ideal has ruled them with especial strictness , the group situation can appear particularly attractive . |
| 10 | Kirsty 's solvent abuse has left her with serious health problems . |
| 11 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |
| 12 | She 'd fled , but not before he 'd accused her with brutish , angry words of a number of character and personality deficiencies , the greatest of which appeared to be her total inability to appreciate the finer qualities of Marcus Pritchard . |
| 13 | I 'd have done it with minimalist technology ; say , beans swelling in water and lifting a diaphragm and bare wire to a contact for the time-fuse . |
| 14 | Ælfheah 's cult may therefore have presented him with considerable problems , and it is unlikely to be coincidence that the bishopric of London is known to have suffered at his hands . |
| 15 | The new book was to be handed to me by the minister , the Revd Dr Adam Burnet , only after we had signed the register — no self-respecting hotel would have accepted us with different names . |
| 16 | But we 'll have to do it with cold water and the yard broom . ’ |
| 17 | I mean , James Frazer would have read her novel , cos I think that 's all you can call it , Coming of Age in Samoa , because it 's mainly fictional , he would 've read her novelistic account , and then he would have compared it with other accounts , which had been published in German and other languages , and accounts of , of Samoans themselves , and he would have said , look there 's something wrong here . |
| 18 | The solicitor who gave those undertakings was not made a party to the proceedings , although if he had been held out by his firm as a partner , s14 of the Partnership Act would have fixed him with potential liability . |
| 19 | The two things were entirely unconnected , but if it is of importance to you then you 'll be pleased to know that had there been a test you would have passed it with straight As . ’ |
| 20 | He would have passed it with flying colours . |
| 21 | Not only do you have to fold it with fastidious care to avoid pinching and clouding the plastic rear window , but fitting it in a hurry is simply impossible . |
| 22 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 23 | It had once been a well , serving the monastery , but when the Red Guards had come they had filled it with broken statuary , almost to its rim , and now the water — channelled from the hills above by way of an underground stream — rose to the lip of the well . |
| 24 | Gandhi was enchanted by the viceroy 's frankness , and recalled to him that Smuts had treated him with similar candour , recognizing , as he said , the justice of his claim on a certain issue , but advancing unanswerable reasons from the point of view of government why it was impossible to meet . |
| 25 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 26 | The MPs said Mr Clarke had received them with great sympathy and had promised to take time to consider every possible factor which could strengthen the town 's security . |
| 27 | Was it because life itself is a battle and Hatton had waged it with unscrupulous weapons , winning rich spoils and falling as he marched home with a song on his lips ? |
| 28 | She had been outraged when her husband left for another woman , had addressed him with religious vehemence and spoken of hell , but as time passed she had realised that life was very much more pleasant without him , that he was generous with money , and so she had , not forgiven , but ceased to revile him ; and I know she found grim amusement in my stepmother 's harassed countenance and the irritating ways of her two small children . |
| 29 | ‘ This was equally true of the teachers , since they , together with the headmaster , could have decided to stop my research whenever they felt it threaten them ; equally , if they had accepted me with open arms it would have meant that the boys would not have trusted me greatly . ’ |
| 30 | Have you noticed I 've done it with Loving Care ? |