Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] it with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her scalp gleamed as if freshly oiled , and pornographic tattoos seemed to writhe across it with a life of their own . |
| 2 | When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush . |
| 3 | Barely six months earlier , however , another trap had been laid and I had fallen into it with a resounding thud . |
| 4 | Ma Bombie had scratched round it with a broom as ancient as herself and with slightly fewer bristles than she had on her chin . |
| 5 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |