Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] it with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His tone was sharp , almost curt ; he tried to soften it with a smile . |
| 2 | He tried to leaven it with a minor joke . |
| 3 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 4 | The first time he 'd done it with a boy , he 'd been ashamed . |
| 5 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 6 | , he 's gone down , he 's looking for a penalty and it 's been given , the referee consulted the linesman , he looked at his nearside , it was who went in or was it Chris on David , the penalty award has been given by the referee , he looked to confirm it with the linesman on the nearside and that confirmation was all that he had needed to point to the spot . |
| 7 | When he had written his autobiography a few years earlier , he had started it with the verse : — |