Example sentences of "they [verb] him with " in BNC.
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| 1 | They attacked him with a gun barrel before escaping . |
| 2 | His old friends the overseers did him proud to the very last : in their generosity they provided him with a 14s. funeral . |
| 3 | A likely explanation is that , although in book 2 he again collaborated with Danchet ( nos. 1–4 ) , and worked with another eminent librettist , Fuselier ( nos. 5–6 ) , they provided him with poems whose dramatic interest is uneven . |
| 4 | Then they beat him with the pipes once again , but when they realized that he had managed to keep his secrets from them , that this small Englishman was not for talking , they turned on him in their fury and kicked and beat him until they feared they had killed him . |
| 5 | Some entrepreneurial showmen then decided they would try to make money out of his popularity and they caught him with the hope of transporting him to London to put on display . |
| 6 | Julia 's questions about the line the defence lawyers were taking were as acute as anything she had ever asked David , and they filled him with relieved delight . |
| 7 | They bombarded him with letters , each cleric pointing out the justice of his claims and listing the iniquities of his brother in Christ . |
| 8 | It was n't his case and they were n't suspects , and they must have known that he was no cheerful extrovert , flattered to be the centre of attraction while they bombarded him with questions about Chief Inspector Rickards 's likely methods , the chance of catching the Whistler , his theories about psychopathic killers , his own experience of serial murder . |
| 9 | They bombarded him with letters and rang him up at least once a week . |
| 10 | They threatened him with a claw hammer , but he stood his ground , and the gang fled in 2 stolen cars . |
| 11 | They threatened him with a spanner and screwdriver , then forced him into the back of his Sierra . |
| 12 | Peck adds that ‘ Some times they prod him with Needles , sometimes they pepper him , sometimes they Shoot at him . ’ |
| 13 | They killed him with kindness , and it did n't do Blackburn much good either . |
| 14 | They got him in the boat and they he had to lie down in the bottom of the boat and they and they covered him with a tarpaulin . |
| 15 | They fouled their corners and filled the hot room with their smells , and they frightened him with their incessant snarling . |
| 16 | So they tied him with chains but the demonic powers were so great in his life that he snapped them like new cords . |
| 17 | They warned him with veiled threats against mentioning anything that he had witnessed the previous night . |
| 18 | They examined him with their eyes and ears . |
| 19 | What they charging him with ? |
| 20 | They watched him with unconcealed anxiety , wet already with the light rain . |
| 21 | They watched him with interest , but also with suspicion , even apprehension ; no one knows what an official snooper on the loose will turn up . |
| 22 | They watched him with sly greediness . |
| 23 | Then , as their reanointed Caesar climbed to the podium , they offered the final slopeside accolade : they pelted him with snowballs . |
| 24 | If they saw him with his son they would n't say that , or when he 's playing with the dog . |
| 25 | He had an infection of the muscle and would have to stay in hospital for at least three weeks , maybe a month , while they treated him with penicillin injections . |
| 26 | Ca n't they supply him with a personal Jeeves ? |
| 27 | The Barons in England were furious at John and they presented him with the Great Charter — Magna Carta — prepared by Archbishop Langston , to which John authorised the attachment of his seal at Runnymede , beside the River Thames , in June 1215 . |
| 28 | Other cottagers the teacher from Glasgow visited gave him a proof of their kindness ; they presented him with a large basin of milk : he took a drink of it , and would have left the remainder , but they signalled to him to drink it all , and the old man stood opposite the door to prevent his getting away till he was obliged , in answer to Gaelic gesticulations , to drink all the milk that was in the basin . |
| 29 | They presented him with his glittering prize — a gold and diamond lapel pin — at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham . |
| 30 | The procession moved through the prison at a leisurely pace , Nicholson answering the visitors ' questions with the minimum of elaboration , constantly struggling to hide his contempt for some of the more idiotic queries they presented him with . |