Example sentences of "it [adv] with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , take an accident like that hair in the gate , put it together with the coincidental gaze of a ghost , and it 's as if Fonda really has come back to life . |
| 2 | He took the photostat copy of the Illustrated Police News out of the roll-top desk where he had kept it together with the original photograph ; under a pile of old negatives away from his wife 's prying eyes . |
| 3 | It 's back in its box now , but it 's still pretty big — so I have to stick it in with the dirty washing . |
| 4 | You dip it in with the leading edge let the water pour over it , then drain it off . |
| 5 | Next , if I were wise only to my own ends , I would certainly take such a subject as of itself might catch a clause , whereas this ’ — he is of course writing about the vexed question of erm Church government and the possible disappearance of episcopy — ‘ whereas this hath all the disadvantages on the contrary , and such a subject as the publishing whereof might be delayed at pleasure and time enough to pencil it over with the curious touches of art , even to the perfection of a faultless picture , whereas in this argument the not deferring it is of great moment to the good speeding . |
| 6 | The red and green of the Aztec necklace links it compositionally with the indigenous plants to the ‘ south ’ of the painting , the pink colonial-style dress tonally blending with the skyscrapers to the ‘ north ’ . |
| 7 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 8 | God knows how much there still is down there ; I 've seen great stacks and bales of it still with the Royal Navy markings on it , and I 've dreamed up any number of ways of getting at it , but short of tunnelling in from the shed and taking the cordite out from the back , so that the bales looked untouched from the inside of the cellar , I do n't see how I could do it . |
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| 10 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 11 | I am still very shaken and will be taking it up with the American authorities . ’ |
| 12 | Lay a piece of masking tape at the centre point of the hearth , then line it up with the plumb bob |
| 13 | thing you could pass on to the police and they could take it up with the local council . |
| 14 | A little extra pressure and I would be able to fish it out with the hypodermic needle I had poised ready . |
| 15 | In a flash she was off her bed and on her way to have it out with the one man responsible . |
| 16 | He even gets to duke it out with the bad guy — hard to do when you 're a disembodied ghost , conventionally restricted to shifting ornaments and the like , but under pressure form Patrick 's agents , the filmmakers find a way . |
| 17 | Written by the well known Michael Freeman , the book details the setting up of a studio from its very conception to kitting it out with the latest gear . |
| 18 | They could gather food with the beak-like premaxillae , manipulate it with the large tongue ( possession of which is suggested by the extensive hyoid bones in the throat ) and crop and slice it efficiently with the powerful jaws . |
| 19 | They can nae do it now with the rolled bays Great rolled bales of hay they have now . |
| 20 | Well they ca n't afford it now with the new poll ta , er or the cou , no the poll tax is n't it , the next one ? |
| 21 | I returned the amp for repair but the company sent it back with the same fault as before . |
| 22 | On the other hand Nova Cygni 1975 , which rose to magnitude 1.8 in only a few hours , dropped below naked-eye visibility in less than a week , and by now I have lost sight of it even with the 39-cm reflector in my observatory . |
| 23 | The student leaders had written a statement accusing the government of practising ‘ state terrorism ’ and comparing it unfavourably with the white minority rulers of South Africa . |
| 24 | Poland , for instance , unlike Russia , was a participant in and indeed an important contributor to the great movements in early modern European history , such as the Renaissance and the scientific revolution , and the country 's legal system , literary forms and religious faith aligned it firmly with the liberal West rather than the more authoritarian East . |
| 25 | It is said to be slightly yellowish , though I have never seen any colour in it either with the naked eye or with binoculars . |
| 26 | It will be useful at this point to outline the picture of the market process which incorporates our views on competition and entrepreneurship , contrasting it briefly with the dominant concept of the market . [ … ] |
| 27 | Away goes Lawrence to , takes it again with the bottom hand away from the bat , it 's off the back foot this time , stabbing it down in front of him , a short of a length ball . |