Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She picked up the menu and scanned it with the air of a gourmet . |
| 2 | She found a pair of stockings , passed her hand through to check for runs , discovered a small one near the heel and dabbed it with the bar of soap to hold it ; put on her two-tone coffee and cream high-heel shoes , then looking close in the mirror , applied some eyeliner with the flick of a tail in the corner and painted pale lipstick on her mouth . |
| 3 | She walked across the clearing and prodded it with the gun till it fell to the ground . |
| 4 | So the wise woman , taking a whip in her hand , seated herself on a small carpet and lashed it with the whip until it rose in the air and carried her to the forest . |
| 5 | They have determined the number of BL Lac objects per unit volume of space , and compared it with the space density of quasars and other types of active galaxies ( submitted to the Astrophysical Journal ) . |
| 6 | The economic affairs commissioner , Henning Christophersen , said the overall Clinton plan was encouraging and compared it with the EC 's own plan to spark the economy out of recession . |
| 7 | The British Foreign Office analysed the constitution of North Korea and compared it with the constitutions of other communist states . |
| 8 | First they measured the background — the number of gamma rays in the natural environment such as those produced by the concrete in the laboratory and compared it with the number of gamma rays when the electrochemical cell was present . |
| 9 | It opened the floodgates to a deluge of referrals , altered the whole balance of its work and confronted it with the enormity of ‘ need ’ in terms of family poverty and homelessness . |
| 10 | The Orb have taken the underground music of previous decades ( Floyd , Tangerine Dream , Can , etc ) and welded it with the fall-out of dance culture to come up with something very strange and potent . |
| 11 | He picked up a toy and placed it with the others on the pile . |
| 12 | On the other hand , there were ‘ Romantic ’ straws in the wind : strong personalities who directed without instrument ( in Berlin , J.F. Reichardt ; for Paris , see below ) ; and the move towards an ‘ international ’ concert repertory which took responsibility away from the keyboardist ( by tradition , the composer ) and placed it with the violin leader . |
| 13 | within a period of three months from the date of the total loss settlement the Policyholder shall have taken delivery of such replacement car and insured it with the Corporation |
| 14 | Swod raised his smouldering eyes to the ceiling to remember a quotation , and recited it with the relish of an evangelist preacher . |
| 15 | This reactivated the pre-war nativist tradition in more virulent form and combined it with the dissemination of the emergent bible of European anti-semitism , the Protocols of the Elders of Zion . |
| 16 | The Court saw no mandatory language in the text of the Convention , and contrasted it with the language of the Hague Service of Process Convention — a contrast which was to prove a source of embarrassment when the court later held that the Service Convention was not mandatory either . |
| 17 | So er that was a telephone call to the divisional officer , who was available at the moment and who came down and discussed it with the employer and notwithstanding that , in the afternoon I had given the management one hour to resolve the problem otherwise there was going to be a major walkout . |
| 18 | Athelstan sketched the sign of the cross above the corpse and sprinkled it with the Asperges rod . |
| 19 | A chill mist was rising through the woodland as he lifted the open can away from the heat and replaced it with the water container . |
| 20 | ‘ This crap , ’ Laura took the book from Rex 's fingers and struck it with the back of her hand . |
| 21 | They brought out the launcher and fastened it to its base , and Diane spread out some plastic sheet for Jed and weighted it with the box of clays . |