Example sentences of "[vb past] it with [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the following day after the Christians had taken possession of the town , the Cid entered it with a great company , and he ascended the highest tower of the wall , and beheld all the city ; and the Moors came unto him , and kissed his hand , saying he was welcome . |
| 2 | She dismissed it with a regal gesture . |
| 3 | Postine subdued it with a single blow to its long wrinkled neck . |
| 4 | Erm I would imagine Tukuse that the the difference that you put in difference that you would get between the reportage , to use a French expression , of Princess Diana 's abdication from public life was probably quite pronounced between say for example the Sun newspaper and the Independent newspaper I would imagine that the Independent newspaper probably did n't play in any great significance , it was probably on the front page , perhaps not with a picture but erm there was a couple of columns of report erm the Independent is famous as being the newspaper which when Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married many years ago , they reported it with a single paragraph saying Prince Charles and Diana , the whole world went made at the Royal Wedding and the Independent had one paragraph , which many people , including myself , said right on . |
| 5 | She bore it with a little smile of amusement that began to enrage me . |
| 6 | Betty regarded it with a rich mixture of pity , admiration , mistrust and disgust . |
| 7 | The darkness was so complete that Pliny compared it with a sealed room in which the lamp had been put out . |
| 8 | He tapped the baton on the desk and dropped it with a loud clatter . |
| 9 | Something sprang to the floor and he mashed it with a large flying-boot . |
| 10 | She followed the film stills with a series which took the convention of the centrefold pin-up and twisted it with a gauche naturalness — creating an awkward , sharp , counter-attack on voyeurism . |
| 11 | I 'd put the bike on the rack at the back and secured it with a bungy strap . |
| 12 | I found a photograph of Paul as a baby in one of the albums I kept in the loft , and after the ceremony I wrote the name of the new catapult on the back of the picture , scrunched it up around a steelie and secured it with a little tape , then went down , out of the loft and the house , into the chill drizzle of a new day . |
| 13 | Tammuz put down the drinks and poked it with a cautious finger . |
| 14 | He hated illness , hated it with an inner anger as though sickness were a devil attacking his life , his plans for his future , his energy . |
| 15 | To keep the look simple , we teamed it with a short cotton knit skirt , £36 , SML , from Fenn Wright & Manson , but it would look equally good with jeans or leggings . |
| 16 | When they discovered this famous Plowden sentence about the importance of the child at the top of this chapter , they welcomed it with a great sigh of relief . |
| 17 | Tony Cascarino dispatched it with a towering header , and that was that . |
| 18 | So my father got a secondhand clockwork train , repaired it with a soldering iron , and gave it to me for Christmas when I was nearly three . |
| 19 | When he knocked at her door , she was ready , and opened it with a cool expression . |
| 20 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 21 | Tom related the tale for the second time and followed it with the daring exploits of Pecos Bill from the comic Willie had chosen . |
| 22 | He followed it with the endearing Doorway ( Severe ) a year later . |
| 23 | He grew it , merged it with an American company , then a few years later , having developed a multimillion pound empire , cast around for a new challenge . |
| 24 | Antonio returned it with a broad smile . |
| 25 | And yesterday the story had a happy ending when the man who bought the ring returned it with a mumbled apology . |
| 26 | He returned it with a little bow . |
| 27 | He had bought it for thirty pounds , enclosed it with a honey-coloured Cotswold stone wall , and planted a small but fine orchard , now at the height of its production . |
| 28 | And then he amended it with a feeble trace of his old Manner : ‘ I accept your offer . ’ |
| 29 | The change of term was not quick enough and he covered it with a grandiose sweep of his hand which nearly knocked over the Doctor 's goblet . |
| 30 | She dragged her hair ruthlessly back and tied it with a narrow ribbon . |