Sentence examples for bargained with him from inspiring English sources

In that year, an American missionary, newly arrived in the Kingdom of Hawaii, met a deaf man and bargained with him over 40 sticks of firewood and a pig.

Two people familiar with statements to the F.B.I. by the antique-store owner, Charles Buttaci, said he told agents that Mr. Torricelli came into the store one summer weekend and bargained with him for the clock, a signed Scottish tall-case clock with an elaborate painted design on the face.

"Clive," says an attorney who has bargained with him, "doesn't give away ice in winter".

I'll have to bargain with him to get him to stay.

It's humiliating to bargain with him, but you're desperate.

When the hit man assigned to kill Mucio shows up, Mucio tries to bargain with him.

His constant harping on Republicans and his assumption that they act out of ill will hamper his ability to get Republicans to bargain with him.

The Texas Rangers may have overpaid to sign Alex Rodriguez, the free-agent shortstop, but he'll be a Ranger for years to come; the team doesn't have to bargain with him before every game.

A tough negotiator (he is "Rocky Ruggiero" to those who had to bargain with him), he knows the ways of the world (and of his mentor, Giovanni Agnelli, Fiat's grand old man).

After Thanksgiving, Mr. Landry tried to bargain with him: In exchange for an accurate transcript, Mr. Simon would pay no tuition but keep his daughter in the school, according to texts reviewed by The Times.

From Rauner's perspective, the financial trouble caused by losing a hefty chunk of tax revenue would pressure Democrats to bargain with him on issues like workers' compensation, property tax relief, term limits, redistricting reform and -- at the time -- establishing right-to-work zones.