Example sentences of "[vb past] it with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He prodded it with a toe . |
| 2 | She walked across the clearing and prodded it with the gun till it fell to the ground . |
| 3 | ‘ He drew it with a piece of charcoal . |
| 4 | On the following day after the Christians had taken possession of the town , the Cid entered it with a great company , and he ascended the highest tower of the wall , and beheld all the city ; and the Moors came unto him , and kissed his hand , saying he was welcome . |
| 5 | A sky-blue bus lumbered past , then they shot out on to the curving mountain road behind it , and a second later overtook it with a roar that must have terrified the already nervous passengers , as the buses always drove maniacally around these bends , desperate to stick to their schedule right down to the last fraction of a second . |
| 6 | Louis pushed his plate away from him , took the chop bone and tossed it to the springer who caught it with a single sharp snap . |
| 7 | I caught it with the catapult , the thick black tubing of the rubber twisting once in the air as I scissored my hands and fell back , letting the buck go over my head and then kicking with my legs and turning myself so that I was level with it where it lay , kicking and struggling with the power of a wolverine , spreadeagled on the sand slope with its neck caught in the black rubber . |
| 8 | I caught it with the jet of flame and it zipped off out of range , heading for the water by the side of the hill the savage buck had attacked me on . |
| 9 | She dismissed it with a regal gesture . |
| 10 | He dismissed it with a faint , scornful laugh as he moved towards the door . |
| 11 | Merrill dismissed it with a shrug , quelling the memory of Luke 's kisses , the pleasant meal they had had . |
| 12 | She allowed the idea of falling in love with him dance across her mind but soon dismissed it with a smile . |
| 13 | Postine subdued it with a single blow to its long wrinkled neck . |
| 14 | The photograph he wanted was all crushed and curled but he soon healed it with a squeeze of his fist … |
| 15 | Holly had filled the plastic bag with oil and twisted the neck tight and fastened it with a snip of wire . |
| 16 | Erm I would imagine Tukuse that the the difference that you put in difference that you would get between the reportage , to use a French expression , of Princess Diana 's abdication from public life was probably quite pronounced between say for example the Sun newspaper and the Independent newspaper I would imagine that the Independent newspaper probably did n't play in any great significance , it was probably on the front page , perhaps not with a picture but erm there was a couple of columns of report erm the Independent is famous as being the newspaper which when Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married many years ago , they reported it with a single paragraph saying Prince Charles and Diana , the whole world went made at the Royal Wedding and the Independent had one paragraph , which many people , including myself , said right on . |
| 17 | He stroked it with the side of the whisky glass , smiled , drank . |
| 18 | The seat had been Tory since 1970 and had been held since 1974 by Sir Charles , who retained it with a sizeable personal vote . |
| 19 | She bore it with a little smile of amusement that began to enrage me . |
| 20 | It brought forth a flood of French until Jenna stopped it with a rather desperate admission that she did not speak the language . |
| 21 | It stood about patiently until a crust dropped , then approached it with a sideways hopping motion and began to tear it . |
| 22 | We approached it with a will to get things done with socialist thinking . |
| 23 | Aberdeen , whatever its staging-post status in their plans , received the same attention as their eventual western destinations , and Johnson approached it with the attitude he later brought to the Highlands and the west , with Boswell , for his part , consistent in the manner and style of his own reportage — observing Johnson as he observed Scotland . |
| 24 | When I used it with a 50lb rucksack there were no sweaty damp patches . |
| 25 | More than half of us used it with a video-recorder , chiefly for films and soap operas taped from broadcasts . |
| 26 | ( One of the teachers whom I interviewed , and who did not comment on this question , has since told me that she used it with a class . |
| 27 | Very probably he gave Arp the drawing , who used it with the artist 's consent . |
| 28 | Betty regarded it with a rich mixture of pity , admiration , mistrust and disgust . |
| 29 | When the community care Support Force was inaugurated , many SSDs regarded it with the same amount of suspicion and distrust as a bird would a snake . |
| 30 | He tried it with a pig but the pig just pissed everywhere , he was n't having it . ’ |