Example sentences of "mess [adv prt] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The charge is that he allowed domestic inflation to get out of control and messed around with the exchange rate when he should have been applying the monetarist remedy . |
| 2 | The interviewer who changes questions , who adds bits to questions , who generally messes about with the schedule , is not being clever , he/she is being a bad fieldworker . |
| 3 | But , you can mess around with the perception of time . |
| 4 | He explained : ‘ We 're not really sure what happened the car cut out four or five times around the circuit in one lap and the only way to keep it going was to mess around with the ignition . |
| 5 | They did n't mess about with the song much . |
| 6 | Finally , the scanner should not mess about with the image through fixed dither patterns or their various equivalents , we need to let the software do this . |
| 7 | Everyone should follow Marshall 's example here because the amount of effect level needed can change from gig to gig and the mix pot makes this adjustment instantly , without your having to mess about with the processor 's levels . |
| 8 | Well let's say let's say we 've got a fixed pressure now , we 're not going to mess about with the height of the water , it 's a constant hundred feet or so . |
| 9 | But once I saw him lumbering down Ward Street , you know , opposite , and he was here as well , messing around with the television . |
| 10 | Can I just ask a question to start with because I was messing around with the camera and was it that he ha that he had no private pension policies at all ? |
| 11 | So I was actually messing around with the Tax Officer for quite a while because I was on demob leave and I was also working so he was n't gon na let me have two lots of sa wages . |
| 12 | I tried all the channels from 1 to 40 in case the hijackers had been messing about with the rig in the truck , but still got nothing . |
| 13 | But could all this messing about with the type of tree affect the taste of the cider : |
| 14 | A small girl was messing about with the birthday cards in Mr Pascall 's shop . |
| 15 | Yes I know what you mean but I do n't fancy you messing about with the grasscutter . |