Example sentences of "[v-ing] it with a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hermit crab partly avoids this complicated and hazardous process by having a shell-less hinder part and protecting it with a discarded mollusc shell , switching into a new one in a minute or so whenever it has the need . |
| 2 | More the kind of face-lift marketing men give an old product when launching it with a new package , less a shift of political culture and strategy rooted in the configurations of modern social change . |
| 3 | On Friday , though , Alesi had been the top man as he claimed the overnight pole , but he lost any chance of keeping it with a wall-bashing incident , which came as no surprise to anyone who had watched his outrageously extrovert efforts . |
| 4 | But there will be cost involved , I think about eighteen thousand , over the course of that year , in sustaining that contract rather than replacing it with a new tender . |
| 5 | Supervised by Rover apprentices , the pupils ripped out an old lecture theatre and are in the process of replacing it with a multi-purpose room which , it is hoped , will help to bridge the gulf between industry and education . |
| 6 | Experienced PC users can deal with the Trojan by using software tools to make the new Autoexec.Bat file visible and read/write , before deleting and replacing it with a correct version . |
| 7 | Removing a plug of turf with the planter and replacing it with a pot-grown cowslip takes seconds . |
| 8 | If a negative thought is about to enter your mind try to become aware of it before it has had time to take root in your unconscious and put it aside , replacing it with a positive thought . |
| 9 | One of the classic instances is Chesterfield , where the town had entered a partnership with a property company to build over the city 's open-air market place , replacing it with a covered market , shops and offices . |
| 10 | By the way , the ‘ box ’ had a had a hole in it ; disconnecting it from the air intake manifold and replacing it with a blank plug seems to have solved our original problem with no immediately apparent side-effects . |
| 11 | The roundness of the pleat is improved by filling it with a little wadding or a tube of curtain buckram . |
| 12 | In conformity with the conventional treatment , where the cross-section narrows from a church with a central nave and side aisles at the lower levels to a narrow , lofty nave only at upper levels , optimum use is made of this space by filling it with a single range of dwellings . |
| 13 | Her argument was that it had offered the women of rock ‘ much worship with little esteem … choosing their image from among the already available fantasies and maybe undercutting it with a little irony . ’ |
| 14 | If very dirty they lay it in the stream , securing it with a large stone , and let the water flow through it for some time , after which they proceed as before … the linen is spread upon the rocks in the river , or the walls near at hand , and secured , like everything else by a stone at each corner … |
| 15 | Many bizarre proposals have been put forward to save the tower in recent years , including flying a huge helium balloon from its top , securing it with a giant safety pin , and lopping off its uppermost floor , which is a later addition . |
| 16 | The body responds to an alumina implant by surrounding it with a fibrous capsule which can be several micrometres thick . |
| 17 | But you can not sense radiation in any other way than by measuring it with a sensitive instrument . |
| 18 | If the singular universal increasingly punctuates the forward movement of Sartre 's text instead of providing it with a dialectical meaning and direction , the problem that it was invoked to solve meanwhile takes its own aberrant course . |
| 19 | His dead weight pulled the curtain rail from its mounting and the thick material cascaded down over his corpse , providing it with a ready-made shroud . |
| 20 | Margaret Taylor of the Dumfries Group addressed the haggis before fiercely slitting it with a huge kitchen knife . |
| 21 | Curiously husky , his voice beguiled her ears as powerfully as his hands were seducing her body , caressing her naked skin beneath her simple top , tantalising the sensitised surface , warm and demanding , seeking the clasp of her flesh-coloured bra , dismantling it with a sure touch that might have come from practice but could equally well have been attributed to simple deduction , except that nothing was simple about this man who had already knowingly conquered her body … åd , unknowingly , her heart as well . |
| 22 | He began to whistle now , accompanying it with a little shuffle of his feet which brought a wide grin from Joe ; then becoming serious for a moment , he said , ‘ You knew , I do appreciate Martin getting leave to come home for my twenty-first . |
| 23 | There 's one scene of four minutes where every third or fourth sentence is ‘ What about the cases ? ’ , referring to what Rita 's character was going to do with her baggage , and it changes so that each person is saying it with a different meaning . |
| 24 | He acknowledges her humiliation by jumping out of his side of the car , coming round to hers , opening the door for her and waiting ostentatiously for her awkwardly to tuck her legs inside before closing it with a little bow . |
| 25 | But it jogged a memory somewhere , and she found herself examining it with a growing sense of unease . |
| 26 | You take the kind of view that Freud took of sex , namely that sex is , to quote his term , polymorphously perverse , that sex is n't just a simple question of a regular male er doing it with a regular female . |
| 27 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |
| 28 | Then rocking the bike off the centrestand , he walked it back out of the space and starting it with a throaty roar , he left her standing there . |
| 29 | If you have the type of hair that can take it , try to leave hair to dry naturally , without heat , scrunching it with a little mousse . |
| 30 | In truth , the camera is a ruthless editor of visual information ; this can be made plain by looking at a picture , say of the eighteenth century , and comparing it with a contemporary print , perhaps an aquatint , and a modern photograph . |