Example sentences of "had [verb] them with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also had to provide them with lunch at 2.30 pm . |
| 2 | By this time the family was based at Fortitude Valley , Brisbane , a " tough little corps " where the larrikins had knocked down the Salvation Army lasses when they were first trying to get established , and the crowd had pelted them with mud , stones and stale fish . |
| 3 | Athelstan waited until the slattern had served them with goblets of wine . |
| 4 | When he had retired with their order and the drinks waiter had served them with lime daiquiris , Barney planted his elbows on the table and leaned towards Melissa . |
| 5 | When he had been keeping Desdemona company , awaiting Othello 's arrival from Venice , Iago had entertained them with impromptu ( and bitter ) rhymes , describing his imagination 's preliminary working ( the rhetorical process of inventio ) in these terms : Frieze is a coarse woollen cloth , birdlime a viscous stuff used to entangle : the destructive collocation of the two seems an apt metaphor for Iago 's ‘ invention ’ . |
| 6 | Thankfully , her mother was n't in and Doreen , the maid , had plied them with milk and biscuits . |
| 7 | As a child he had studied them with fascination , enquiring what the bull was doing to the lady , and receiving from his parents no very satisfying answer . |
| 8 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |