Example sentences of "and [vb past] it with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he built a double-skinned oak door and studded it with fat-headed iron nails from the nearby , long defunct Presteigne nail-making machine . |
| 2 | clenched , Benny lifted her foot above the instruments and lowered it with extreme care towards the handle of the scalpel . |
| 3 | The orgasmic bellowing began when I got the car into a slide as the track began to get wet with rain and caught it with opposite lock . |
| 4 | Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence . |
| 5 | I have pricked my first blister , squeezed out the fluid , and dabbed it with surgical spirit . |
| 6 | He completely misjudged the question , and his translation was ignored by churchmen as well as by the editor of the influential Monthly Review , who had been irritated by Smart 's angry response to earlier criticism , and dismissed it with short shrift . |
| 7 | He was thrown out of Chicago and fled to New York where he built a palace and filled it with Old Masters . |
| 8 | Then she went to the sink and filled it with lukewarm water and made the water frothy with soap-powder . |
| 9 | Encouraged by these findings we have formulated a bismuth enema and compared it with 5-ASA enemas in patients with active distal colitis to examine the therapeutic effect . |
| 10 | He opened the camera , took out the film and handed it with another smile to the man with the spoonbill nose . |
| 11 | He groped his way through the shadows at the foot of the stairs , located the large brass handle and turned it with both hands . |
| 12 | He had virtually no bite , as he had once overheard Adam say to Bridget , and heard it with helpless chagrin . |
| 13 | And Jimmy had grabbed up a nearby typist 's chair from behind the screen and raised it with both hands like some huge club , ready to smash it across Duvall 's face . |
| 14 | DALGLISH 'S Liverpool had not long recorded their biggest League win this century ( 7-1 at Derby ) and followed it with five goals against Leeds . |
| 15 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
| 16 | So much so , that he recently purchased a massive ex-display tank , set it up in his dining room and stocked it with wild-caught Malawis , many of which are now breeding regularly . |
| 17 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 18 | This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness . |
| 19 | The soldier was able to pick out his target in Copperfield Street from a distance of several hundred yards — and hit it with one shot . |
| 20 | He bought a two-storey house at the end of a narrow street just off the Tel Aviv road and furnished it with new tables , chairs and beds . |
| 21 | Thoughtfully he thrust it into the base of a bush a few feet from the path and covered it with dried leaves . |
| 22 | Suspected Sendero guerrillas threw dynamite into his car and sprayed it with machine-gun fire . |
| 23 | I confined it to a hospital tank for two weeks and treated it with Aquarian Whitespot Remedy . |
| 24 | The new army had to hold the Western Front after the demoralization of the French , following General Nivelle 's failed offensive of 16 April-21 May 1917 and did it with such success , that Allied victory became a possibility in 1918 . |
| 25 | Matthew had made his fire plan and cleared it with chief officer of the Wellingham fire brigade . |
| 26 | Oh somebody took all our lovely parking ticket display off that was keeping the tas tax disk up and replaced it with black tape . |
| 27 | It was freezing inside the huge building ; it was as if someone had sucked every ounce of warm air from the interior and replaced it with icy breath . |
| 28 | However , he eventually sold it , and replaced it with another model . |
| 29 | He built them a pagoda of solid jade and embellished it with precious gems — not realising that to grow up a dragon must accumulate its own hoard , must steal it from Emperors and princes . |
| 30 | Adam lifted the latch on one of the gates and pushed it with great care ; but it did n't move , obviously bolted . |