Example sentences of "[prep] it with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had reached the apartment block and there was a café below it with white metal tables and chairs out on the street . |
| 2 | Pau retains a circle of Anglophiles who cherish the British connection and speak of it with affectionate admiration — not the most widespread of French responses to us . |
| 3 | Three fingers whispered against the skin in the V of her blouse , reaching inside to move within the lace edge of her bra , pushing beneath the confinement of it with greater insistence , hot now and seeking more intimacy than that first feather-light touch had allowed . |
| 4 | He had seldom been to the village and only once on foot but he could remember the layout of it with surprising clarity . |
| 5 | Only Willey , who seemed to play his best Test innings against West Indian thunderbolts , made a fight of it with 71 ; Botham hammered a quick 29 , but the last wicket went down for 152 , leaving West Indies needing five to win . |
| 6 | Kardamíli seemed a good base , since the author himself writes of it with such affection . |
| 7 | Nicholas Young laid over £10m-worth of bets in five years — at least a third of it with other people 's money . |
| 8 | More can be learned about the nature of sale from a comparison of it with other contracts . |
| 9 | Wednesday looked suspiciously at the rope then seized hold of it with one hand . |
| 10 | He remained by the table , holding the edge of it with one hand because the table was shaking . |
| 11 | He had all their attention now , every eye was wide and bright upon him , Herluin and Robert irresistibly moved to hoping against hope , but very wary of disappointment , Nicol interested but bewildered , for nothing had been said to him of the loss of Saint Winifred 's reliquary , or the possibility that he might have had it aboard his wagon , and had been robbed of it with all the rest . |
| 12 | And once it went , he would be in the thick of it with all his weapons and a better chance than most . |
| 13 | ( Not that you 'd ever catch me doing any of it with that treacherous corporate stooge again . |
| 14 | I mean a real Safeway , you know , the ones you see in the U S where everything you know , even the trolleys , are seven times bigger , erm n n not like they are , you know , the aliens land in the car park of the Maple Valley Safeways in Washington State , and , and observe people coming out of it with enormous piles of shopping . |
| 15 | To his right wing the Zoo stretched away in the distance ; Three Island Pond he recognized as a paler shape than the rest with lights on the paths around to mark it out ; the Cages were in front of it with several Men around them . |
| 16 | There was a bench at one side of it with empty tea cups on it and some comic papers . |
| 17 | This driver is clearly central to the performance of the 103/2 , handling as it does the bulk of the frequency range , though there was certainly no gamble involved in its incorporation into the Reference range since KEF had already utilised another version of it with notable success in the baby model , the 101/2 . |
| 18 | Erm , having been told that the County Council were running the meeting , I did find it a little difficult to chair , but I do think that we 've come out of it with some constructive ideas . |
| 19 | Because this is the world 's future , and we must hurry towards it with open and welcoming arms . |
| 20 | He stood beside the cardinal 's chair , leaning against it with one hand on its gilded back . |
| 21 | Endill watched in horror as he began hitting the handle , swinging against it with all his might . |
| 22 | As it was Judge Justice had to rule against it with all the authority of the Supreme Court of Texas . |
| 23 | The charge of indoctrination has been regularly levelled against it with great force , especially because of the holding of assemblies for worship which is still required by law . |
| 24 | You 'll be up against it with those two young men so near you . |
| 25 | This year 's York Festival and Mystery Plays has put its troubles firmly behind it with some events already sold out with still three months to go . |
| 26 | ICL claims Bull and SNI are at least two or three years behind it with commercial EDS products . |
| 27 | I do n't think they can get away with it with little girls but they get away with it with little boys . |
| 28 | I do n't think they can get away with it with little girls but they get away with it with little boys . |
| 29 | A Galk hit a Cun across the face and then tore into it with savage teeth . |
| 30 | Connon picked up the plastic bag , opened it , put it at the edge of the table and swept the items into it with one efficient movement of his hand . |