Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [adv prt] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 2 | I tried to clean it out with a trolley . |
| 3 | When he did n't reply she felt something bad approaching and tried to ward it off with an apology . |
| 4 | She tried to cover it up with a laugh . |
| 5 | Mrs Kipling said her husband tried to put it out with a jacket . |
| 6 | I carried my bewilderment into the coffee shop and tried to drown it along with the froth of my cappuccino . |
| 7 | Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade . |
| 8 | The microwave chimed and she hauled a still half-frozen block of chilli out on a big plate ; she started breaking it up with a large wooden spoon . |
| 9 | I kept mixing it up with the florin , |
| 10 | I did take it up with the Attorney-General but he felt he could n't refer it on to the next court . |
| 11 | It 's , it was done that 's why did block it up with a in the first instance . |
| 12 | It stretched it and started all bleeding and I had and I had to sew it up with a sewing kit . |
| 13 | ‘ Basically , the previous owners had messed it about with no idea of period style or taste ’ , says Peter . |
| 14 | But when she looked at the mirror again the stain of spectacles was still there and she had to wipe it off with a cloth so that Larry would not see . |
| 15 | He had opposed it along with the rest of the General Advisory Committee but it was no clear-cut moral stand : ‘ I never urged anyone not to work on the hydrogen bomb project , ’ he told the inquiry . |
| 16 | But er with the the the er the original the the first one , you had to heat it up with a blowlamp and you had to be very very careful to get it just to the right heat , before if you tried to start it too cold , it would kick back and if was too hot again , it just would n't start . |
| 17 | In all probability he had thrown it out with the rest when he had moved to London in 1973 . |
| 18 | I wish now I had sent it on with the rest of the clothes but I did n't want to risk crushing it . ’ |
| 19 | It dangled past her fingertips , but she had bunched it up with a belt around her waist . |
| 20 | Erm I 've not done this before and I wanted to try it out with a small group like yourselves to see how we go on with it . |