Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jimmy had the gun in his hands now , and levelled it with a cool and grim purpose at Rohmer . |
| 2 | An old worker , after giving the machine a jaundiced look , turned the handle and tried it with a few roots . |
| 3 | She followed the film stills with a series which took the convention of the centrefold pin-up and twisted it with a gauche naturalness — creating an awkward , sharp , counter-attack on voyeurism . |
| 4 | She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid . |
| 5 | His writing , prose and poetry demanded rigorous attention , and received it with the same daily routine that he had established earlier : three pages a day , writing and rewriting , creative and self-critical . |
| 6 | And he picked up his hand of cards , and surveyed it with a bewildered distracted satisfaction . |
| 7 | He tapped the baton on the desk and dropped it with a loud clatter . |
| 8 | Tammuz put down the drinks and poked it with a cautious finger . |
| 9 | I found a photograph of Paul as a baby in one of the albums I kept in the loft , and after the ceremony I wrote the name of the new catapult on the back of the picture , scrunched it up around a steelie and secured it with a little tape , then went down , out of the loft and the house , into the chill drizzle of a new day . |
| 10 | I 'd put the bike on the rack at the back and secured it with a bungy strap . |
| 11 | When he knocked at her door , she was ready , and opened it with a cool expression . |
| 12 | Tom related the tale for the second time and followed it with the daring exploits of Pecos Bill from the comic Willie had chosen . |
| 13 | She dragged her hair ruthlessly back and tied it with a narrow ribbon . |
| 14 | I knew absolutely nothing about the Alexander Technique and viewed it with a certain amount of scepticism , but I felt I had nothing to lose . |
| 15 | ‘ I noticed a freak red cabbage with side-shoots coming from the leaves , and crossed it with a freak green cabbage . |
| 16 | By contrast , though Dr McNab also possessed authority and combined it with a calm and dignified manner , he seemed to lack Dr Dunstaple 's good humour . |
| 17 | We then looked at the remarkable record of capitalism in creating wealth and contrasted it with the present malaise which now seems to infect most economies of the Western world . |
| 18 | We looked at the remarkable record of capitalism in creating wealth and contrasted it with the present malaise which now seems to infect most economies of the Western world . |
| 19 | Charles Evans Hughes , opening the Conference , made a dramatic plea for disarmament and supported it with a detailed plan . |
| 20 | It goes without saying that he did not serve scrambled eggs with smoked haddock , he cooked the haddock first , flaked it , and mixed it with the beaten eggs before cooking them . |
| 21 | IBM developed SQL , a non-procedural data definition language , and launched it with the original SQL/DS under DOS/VSE back in 1980 . |
| 22 | The law abolished the Council of Ministers and replaced it with a 16-member Cabinet , headed by Byambasuren . |
| 23 | In November 1991 the Council repealed Regulation 3796/81 on the common organization of the market in fish products and replaced it with a new , consolidated regulation , Regulation 3687/91 . |
| 24 | He may have told you we 've now handed over the Nissan Sunny to John and replaced it with a new bright-red Micra ( the one with the cuddly toy-car image ) . |
| 25 | She said : ‘ We are trying to re-establish the Lord Mayoralty as it was before the city had its pantomime period , ’ a reference to the time the Militant-dominated council abolished the position of Lord Mayor and replaced it with a Labour chairman . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's like doing a jigsaw and making your own pieces up ’ , said Mrs Joel as she deftly removed a petal that was too large and replaced it with a smaller one . |
| 27 | He erased all the existing data and replaced it with a single line written in capital letters : TO BE TERMINATED AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF JAMEL MOBUTO . |
| 28 | She took the cigarette stub from her holder and replaced it with a fresh one . |
| 29 | Despite signing the odd turkey , in the uncharacteristically naive belief that if they were English they must be good , Souness dismantled the old Ibrox Calvinism , and replaced it with a corporate attitude finely attuned to the modern world . |
| 30 | The announcement came in a Commons written reply by the roads minister , Kenneth Carlisle , but by that time most of the UK 's 9000 test stations had already halted the test and replaced it with the old visual check for excess smoke . |