Example sentences of "to [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can only pass an Act of Parliament and give it to them with a slap on the back and a ‘ best of British luck ’ : ‘ Here 's your constitution , ’ we say , ‘ now do what you like with it ; you can because you are now independent . ’ |
| 2 | You would not have gone to them with a theory of the death of Jesus — you would have gone to them with great wonder saying : ‘ It is incredible , but our Lord is alive . |
| 3 | She turned to them with a glowing smile . |
| 4 | And upon the way they round a leper , struggling in a quagmire , who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God ; and when Rodrigo heard this , he alighted from his beast and helped him , and placed him upon the beast before him , and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night . |
| 5 | ‘ Now this is what a pub should be like , ’ he said to them with a grin . |
| 6 | Many potential employers complain that applicants come to them with a poor knowledge of what the job involves and no particular interest in the company . |
| 7 | Since these presuppositions that are the basis of knowledge are not normally recognized at the conscious level , an individual does not normally ‘ affiliate ’ to them with a conscious and intentional act . |
| 8 | Her friends turned to her and said , " You do n't like it , do you ? " and she turned to them with a smile of triumph , swallowing hard , and said , " Oh , it 's all right , really . " |
| 9 | She walked up to them with a kind of swagger . |
| 10 | And Lenin , who had talked only at party meetings , before audiences of Marxist students , who had hardly appeared in public in 1905 , now spoke to them with a voice of authority that was to pick up all their undirected energy , to command their uncertain confidence , and to swell suddenly to a world-wide resonance . |
| 11 | Alex listened to them with a smile on her face but an increasing chill in her mind . |
| 12 | Their minds being on Emma , they waited for Peggy to go on , but after placing a piece of wood on the fire she turned to them with a smile , saying , ‘ What about a drink ? ’ |
| 13 | And mother used to attend to them with a doctor like you know . |
| 14 | We are trying to get to them with the message that smoking kills unborn and newborn babies . |
| 15 | He asked permission to make the tea , which he did — and brought it in to them with the air of an old family retainer . |
| 16 | But what could be worthier of my human intelligence than to discriminate between and interrelate the parts of a painting or musical composition with the concentration of a mathematician solving a problem , yet respond to them with the immediacy of a dog pricking up its ears ? |
| 17 | When we return to them with the scrutiny of our adult minds , they appear as towering shelters , full of colour and minutely-remembered detail . |
| 18 | IBM came to them with the notion , the firm says . |
| 19 | The experiment in which people inflicted electric shocks on subjects who were actually actors is known to all psychology students , and even journalology has an important study that depended on deception : editors had papers that they had already published resubmitted to them with the titles and addresses changed and then rejected most of them — providing evidence , the researchers argued , that editors and referees were biased against authors from provincial universities . |
| 20 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 21 | That has been contradicted by the hon. Member for South Shields ( Dr. Clark ) , who has said that he would take money from British farmers with one hand and give part of it back to them with the other . |
| 22 | Woodruffe pushed it open , and the organized moan of pleading chords reached out to them with the smell of cold masonry and dusty matting and faintly dinging incense . |
| 23 | Erm and then we 've just done a letter to them with the new prices . |
| 24 | This was sent to them with an information leaflet . |
| 25 | The punk would turn to me with a conspiratorial grin — hey , man , it 's you and me against the world , eh ? — then shift the bus across with his knee . |
| 26 | But this time he drew out his knife and showed it to me with a meaningful glance . |
| 27 | He sank it and turned to me with a real glint in his eye and said something like , ‘ Now let's go . ’ |
| 28 | In the next block a man I had never seen before rushed up to me with a jug . |
| 29 | When the red light went out after my closing announcement , Mr Murray turned to me with a broad grin ‘ Was that all right ? ’ he asked , and I shook his hand acknowledging his ad-lib masterpiece . |
| 30 | These words were spoken to me with a strong American accent . |