Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [adv] 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I kept mixing it up with the florin , |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | I did take it up with the Attorney-General but he felt he could n't refer it on to the next court . |
| 13 | It 's , it was done that 's why did block it up with a in the first instance . |
| 14 | It stretched it and started all bleeding and I had and I had to sew it up with a sewing kit . |
| 15 | It was as filled with rare and handsome things as any other in the palazzo , yet it had a different feel to it , as if its owner had furnished it more with an eye to what pleased him than to effect . |
| 16 | ‘ Basically , the previous owners had messed it about with no idea of period style or taste ’ , says Peter . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In all probability he had thrown it out with the rest when he had moved to London in 1973 . |
| 22 | Miss Clinton had taken it away with the wheel still loose and would soon be driving northward over a narrow moorland road that a few miles beyond the road-bridge over the river wound along the shelf of a mountain with a sheer , dizzy drop on one side . |
| 23 | I wish now I had sent it on with the rest of the clothes but I did n't want to risk crushing it . ’ |
| 24 | He took the photostat copy of the Illustrated Police News out of the roll-top desk where he had kept it together with the original photograph ; under a pile of old negatives away from his wife 's prying eyes . |
| 25 | It dangled past her fingertips , but she had bunched it up with a belt around her waist . |
| 26 | The old farmer 's daughter had donated it together with the notebook the farmer ( and his father before him ) had kept of his sales and receipts . |
| 27 | 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 . |