Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [adv] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was blood all over the windows , too , and Magee had to wipe it away with the sleeve of his coat in order to see through the windscreen . |
| 2 | ALL parents of four-year-olds know what strong-minded little monsters they can be — but we decided to risk it anyway with a trip to Val d'Isere . |
| 3 | It would sound odd to put this description into the past tense , with " described " and " constructed " , unless you were deliberately emphasising the the fact that this book was produced at a particular point in the past , for example in order to compare it explicitly with a book written more recently . |
| 4 | Most Marxist thinkers , beginning with Marx and Engels themselves , have been inclined to relegate nationalism to a position of minor importance by comparison with class struggles ; to dismiss it ( as did Rosa Luxemburg in her statements on the Polish independence movement ) as a refuge of the petty bourgeoisie , which would lose its political significance with the growth of the socialist movement ; to connect it particularly with the development of capitalism in its imperialist stage ; or , finally , to attribute a limited value to national struggles against imperialism , as an adjunct of the fundamental conflict between the working class and the bourgeoisie . |
| 5 | And I 've got to roll it again with the roller . |
| 6 | ‘ If I managed to get it home with the help of a cabbie we must be able to move it between the two of us . |
| 7 | A plump old man sitting in a wooden scaffold on a marine building site sawed the top off an immense teak column to make it flush with the decking . |