Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , our descriptive task will be more difficult , as it involves dealing with greater complexity of variation than would be the case in more focused communities , and it has to be carried out at a very fine-grained level . |
| 2 | The black cat spread all over Europe until , in medieval times , it became associated with black magic and sorcery . |
| 3 | But apparently smut has never been far away , and in recent years when some crops have been grown from home saved seed which has had no treatment , after two or three years it has appeared with devastating effect . |
| 4 | It has to do with short-term planning and public accounting systems , which mean that , although money can in theory be voted for projects over a number of years , in practice , it usually arrives in annual dribs and drabs . |
| 5 | In short , what this has to do with modern poetry is very clear ; what it has to do with modern criticism is not clear at all , since that criticism has , as we have seen , no vocabulary for dealing with it , and moves further and further from finding such a vocabulary , the more it takes its lead from linguisticians like Saussure and Jakobson . |
| 6 | Using a more powerful cocktail of bio-tech moisturisers , Vitamins A and E together with deHydrocholesterol , Time-Complex aims to ‘ re-programme ’ the skin so that it starts to behave with youthful efficiency . |
| 7 | Well it says serve with fresh mince vegetable , mixed vegetables . |
| 8 | But it argues ministers should hesitate before going further with the publication of information that could be misused in the same way as it says occurred with published exam results . |
| 9 | It seemed filled with red jelly . |
| 10 | ( Although it should not be forgotten that when systems do collapse or explode — like the communist system in Eastern Europe in the late 1990s and early 1990s , or the system of order within Strangeways in 1990 — it tends to happen with great suddenness . ) |
| 11 | The advantage of copying the relevant information from the communication structure into a separate syntax structure is that it simplifies dealing with duplicate grammar tags in one position . |
| 12 | The boy said it had began with affectionate cuddling but escalated into sexual acts . |
| 13 | Melanie had tried to fill the bath from it only once and then it had exploded with such ferocity that the toothbrushes leapt and quivered in the rack and Uncle Philip 's toothglass had taken a suicide jump from the shelf and bounced on the floor , fortunately without breaking . |
| 14 | Autumn was here , on the heels of a mutilated summer , and it had arrived with preternatural speed . |
| 15 | It had started with fitzAlan battering at the wall of indifference she had erected between herself and the world , and now every little thing seemed to hinder its rebuilding . |
| 16 | Though at first this is quite hard to do , it does come with constant practice . |
| 17 | Now , with reckless abandon , it promises to meddle with local-government structure . |
| 18 | Reference may be made to the National Code of Local Government Conduct , para. 3 ( Appendix D , post , p. 105 ) although it has to be said that that paragraph is not , in the author 's view , well drafted since it fails to indicate with sufficient clarity the difference between disclosing personal pecuniary interests ( failure to comply being a serious criminal offence ) and disclosing other interests ( which is simply a matter of prudence , but involves no breach of law ) . |
| 19 | Once it 's lit with that stuff you 're supposed to shut your bottom all tight . |
| 20 | And it 's set with one sovereign . |