Example sentences of "[vb pp] it with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wording with which section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957 introduced diminished responsibility is rather unsatisfactory , but judges , counsel , doctors , and juries have approached it with a compassionate pragmatism rather than with the rarefied verbal analysis too frequently encountered in English criminal law . |
| 2 | A bit tricky under the circumstances , although I 've never actually done it with a raving loony . |
| 3 | To have seen it is associated with a more positive attitude towards SSE , not to have seen it with a neutral attitude ; to recall it well is associated with an even more positive attitude towards SSE , not to recall it well with only a mildly positive attitude ; to associate changes with its use with a very positive attitude ; not to do so with only a mildly positive attitude . |
| 4 | Her dress had been made by a local dressmaker who had made it with a deep frill of black satin round the neck . |
| 5 | Lyotard 's definition of postmodernism as the subversion of metanarratives , then the nouveau roman can be said to have rejected the totalizing metanarrative of existentialism , even if only to have replaced it with a literary-historical metanarrative of its own . |
| 6 | Artistic director Christopher Gable has injected it with a new lease of life and brought it to a completely different audience . |
| 7 | The deed was to him so monstrous , so surprising , that it would have been intolerable not to have shared it with a living soul . |
| 8 | We 've fitted a compact disc player and protected it with a new security system . |
| 9 | Its widespread influence in architecture has linked it with a joyless form of economic and technological functionalism that was not the intent of the originators . |
| 10 | By an effort of memory she could just recall a time when money had been plentiful , and her father — then strong and well — had spent it with a gay extravagance which had delighted her as a small child . |
| 11 | Capote brought me a deep-bowled cup of heavy claret , heated it with a burning poker , and a dish of scalding meat , heavily spiced . |
| 12 | I had already discussed it with a fair proportion of them as individuals in the previous weeks . |
| 13 | The girls , as in her mind she thought of the Misses Cardings , had trimmed it with a deep tone of lime-green velvet ribbon and in the heart of the bow at the side they had placed two tiny red silk rosebuds . |
| 14 | Since receiving a copy I have scrutinised it with a fine toothpick and believe the whole thing to be completely bogus . |