Example sentences of "had [verb] them with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few weeks later I had a letter from them , saying another man had visited them with a barn owl , but it was n't as good as Dawn . |
| 2 | A mole working inside Cranborne School had supplied them with a mailing-list of all Muslim parents whose children had been rejected by ‘ This is a Christian Country ’ Gyles , the Junior School headmaster , and Robert and Maisie had been through the telephone directory , picking out anyone with a Muslim-sounding name . |
| 3 | They behaved as though the European exchange rate mechanism had equipped them with a monetary policy and had left no point in discussing the subject further . |
| 4 | Streets which had looked short on the map seemed endless when one had to walk them with a suitcase . |
| 5 | It was their own indolence which had landed them with a murder which could probably be explained and might even have been prevented , if they had taken a bit more trouble . |
| 6 | The secret that lay between them , those minutes when he had held her shaking body against the tree trunk and stared into her eyes , compelling obedience , had bound them with a cord so strong that it could n't be frayed , either by the enormity of their shared guilty secret , or by the small rubs of living together . |
| 7 | They had indulged them with a capricious dominion , sometimes over the one , sometimes over the other object of desire . |
| 8 | Appalled by her ignorance of Johnny 's time and of Johnny 's war , she had found some books at the library , and bringing them home , had read them with a mixture of fascination and growing horror . |