Example sentences of "[vb past] it with [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part .
2 He opened the camera , took out the film and handed it with another smile to the man with the spoonbill nose .
3 The box having been placed upon the table , he ordered it with great eagerness to be opened .
4 Giles Aplin examined it with some interest before consigning it to a buttoned pocket without comment .
5 The hole I drew was about nine metres out and I fished it with that length of pole and a short line .
6 He repeated it with some commentary in an issue of the Times Educational Supplement .
7 He watched it with intense concentration for a few moments , then left the room .
8 clenched , Benny lifted her foot above the instruments and lowered it with extreme care towards the handle of the scalpel .
9 Connon read it with one sweep of the eyes .
10 Matthew had made his fire plan and cleared it with chief officer of the Wellingham fire brigade .
11 And you discussed it with that body of er people at local conference .
12 The triumph of the Ulster Workers ' Council left it with huge prestige during the remainder of the summer .
13 yes tiny little place , and it was , it was n't totally satisfactory initially in that they erm , they left it with some sort of erm cock up , I could n't wind it up , there was something wrong with the crown click , or something of the sort , when I got it back , so I had to take it back again , but otherwise they seemed to be people who are well aware of watches in the best sense and eh , he said this is a an excellent movement and eh far better than the ones I normally see .
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