Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got it with the fourth one |
| 2 | But somehow Sampras did reach it and Forget managed to make sure with his second volley and said later ‘ … but I 'm not quite sure how I did it with the wrong grip ’ . |
| 3 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 4 | Well , I mean , if we , if we did it with the free ferry , and there 's a possibility we might be able to get fairly cheap accommodation if we drove over there and stayed . |
| 5 | The surprise here is that they did it with the best , very purest intentions , poor lambs . |
| 6 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |
| 7 | He got it with the cruel bonus of a broken jaw but took Tyson the distance . |
| 8 | He followed it with the endearing Doorway ( Severe ) a year later . |
| 9 | The young man — not a man at all , in fact , but a boy dressed like a man , bearing himself like a man — made a strange gesture : holding one hand at head-height , he struck it with the other , palm against palm , a glancing blow . |
| 10 | He bandaged it with the remaining strip of cloth . |
| 11 | It had originally been called The Rest Cure but Eliot discovered that the title had already been used and , after some hesitation , he replaced it with The Elder Statesman . |