Example sentences of "[to-vb] it with a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right on cue a Brazilian goal arrived in the 54th minute and was largely the result of a surging run on the right and inspired cross from Jorginho , Careca rising to meet it with a firm header down past Van Breukelen . |
| 2 | Although Robert Teeter remained as the nominal head of the Bush campaign , it was generally acknowledged that Baker would use his new post to exercise overall and ultimate responsibility for the campaign and attempt to provide it with a greater degree of coherence . |
| 3 | As I cleaned the little beauty and mounted it in my new display case , I promised myself that I would do everything possible to provide it with a few companions in the months that followed . |
| 4 | If we can recognise it then we know about it ( a Person ) , or how to tackle it with a standard solution ( a disease ) , or what the significance maybe ( an inflection in a chart ) . |
| 5 | The best thing to do when an old galvanised cistern has started to rust is to replace it with a modern plastic type . |
| 6 | There was also controversy over the Commission 's plans to abolish the zero rating of intra-EC exports with effect from January 1993 , and to replace it with a complex system of approximation under which a central clearing house would apportion VAT payments between the countries involved in a transaction . |
| 7 | We have been struggling for years with an inadequate meat hygiene inspection system and we need , as soon as possible , to replace it with a centralised system that will guarantee high standards and uniform costs . |
| 8 | The traditional way to prevent corrosion is to suspend a ‘ sacrificial ’ magnesium anode in the cistern ; the best solution with a corroded cold water cistern is to replace it with a new plastic one . |
| 9 | Essentially , the committee had agreed to disband COMECON altogether , and to replace it with a new body , to be known as the Organization for International Economic Co-operation ( OIEC ) . |
| 10 | The aim was , through the conjunction of good quality paper and inks , to eliminate a certain deadness and flatness inherent in the lithographic process and to replace it with a velvety depth and richness of colouring often lacking in English lithography . |
| 11 | Incidentally if you have an old RLL or MFM drive it may be a better bet to replace it with a larger IDE drive , they 're usually faster and much more reliable . |
| 12 | In other words , the aim is to neutralize a troublesome feeling rather than to replace it with a positive feeling . |
| 13 | Or I 'll have to bash it with a rolling pin again . |
| 14 | He tried to leaven it with a minor joke . |
| 15 | The main problem was that we had to do it with a RELIANT ROBIN three wheeler car , looking remarkably similar to Del Boy 's . |
| 16 | Unless you were to put , like to fill , to fill it with a cheap flannel and a bar of soap and a sponge . |
| 17 | Eurowoman may have a baggy bottom , but she always manages to salvage it with a sensational pair of legs . |
| 18 | First this is held downwards , then it is swung upwards to varying heights so that you have a split second in which to hit it with a suitable technique . |
| 19 | There is , for most of the century , no simple suggestion of a dominant class resisting a popular culture and attempting to supplant it with a preferred alternative , but rather a willingness not only to tolerate it but to accept a functional involvement . |
| 20 | Two coats of arms in the lower corners of the flanking foliate borders enabled scholars to trace the piece to Nuremberg , to connect it with a married couple , to date it to around 1465 , and to associate it with a group of antependia the mourning widow contributed to altars in the Lorenzkirche . |
| 21 | Even when we are in fact focussing on spoken language , we seem to approach it with a theoretical apparatus which is more apt for the analysis of written language ’ ( 1982 , p . |
| 22 | Going home to Europe , Mr Eliot has had to understand Europe ; he could not quite sufficiently be the European simply to feel that he was there ; he has been forced to envisage it with a reminiscent philosophy . |
| 23 | Leading lady Julia Roberts was keen to make it with a British actor , namely Last Of The Mohicans Daniel Day Lewis , but is reluctant to go ahead with the replacement suggested by producer 's Universal , her former boyfriend Jason Patric . |
| 24 | No such a thing as bales of straw , it was loose hay stacked , and you used to cut it with a big hay knife . |
| 25 | Classification of the pixels forming a Landsat MSS or TM image means giving each pixel a label to associate it with a land-cover class such as ‘ wheat ’ , ‘ forest ’ or ‘ sandy desert ’ . |