Example sentences of "[vb pp] it with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 then I have embellished it with red and blue gemstones and a drop-pearl ( from an old earring ) in the centre .
2 I know , because I have applied it with complete success to his own speeches and writings .
3 Never done it with that
4 He had done it with consummate aplomb .
5 It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot .
6 so they 've done it with nine then eh ?
7 Yes , I 've done the mandate workshop , yes , and I 've done it with other groups too .
8 I 've done it with other women .
9 The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams , and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome , silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary .
10 Somehow a favourite dress or toy of Paige 's would be damaged , but she had done it with such guile that her parents could never be sure it was intentional .
11 Have you noticed I 've done it with Loving Care ?
12 They 've done it with real people ?
13 But I know that 's what it was you know because the wee lassie done it with this special electronic thing
14 I 'd have done it with minimalist technology ; say , beans swelling in water and lifting a diaphragm and bare wire to a contact for the time-fuse .
15 Stained glass features throughout their home and the Michies have incorporated it with great success .
16 On those cases it , it usually evens itself out er it usually says oh due to roundings I 'll ignore that erm cos I 've actu erm I 've gained through the unit statement on , cos I 've had one of these stand alone policies , and not wishing to pay the one pound ninety I 've actually knocked it on the head now and incorporated it with another policy , but erm when we looked at it all , overall I 've got a nil unit situation but in some months I actually had negative units , some months I had a , a sort of like point zero one of a unit positive .
17 Its magnitude is only 9 according to official estimates ; I have never seen it with low-power binoculars , but I have suspected it with × 20 , though I would not have noticed it if I had not known just where it was .
18 Should have made it with that .
19 ‘ But I 've made it with United and now I want the chance to show what I can do at the highest level of all . ’
20 The apartment itself was enormous and , as if she were scared of the space , Jane Pargeter had crammed it with expensive furniture .
21 I have since used it with great success at children 's parties .
22 Because I have had it with that kind of treatment of Americans . "
23 ‘ I 've had it with all of you . ’
24 ‘ A senior police officer and a police surgeon , both very pleasant and helpful , admitted that in their courting days they had indeed persevered and had sexual intercourse despite protests from the women they were with ; an actor asked in fascination how it could possibly be called rape if a woman had gone so far before protesting ; a dentist [ stated ] ‘ I have had it with dozens of women against their will .
25 He had not only preserved the room , he had cleaned it with meticulous care and provided fresh flowers in the little glass spill .
26 He had avoided it with all the fuss going on but wanted to see the Bookman once more before the expedition started .
27 ‘ I have had a wonderful opportunity here with Camel-Benetton-Ford this year and I feel I have grabbed it with both hands , ’ Brundle said .
28 I mean , James Frazer would have read her novel , cos I think that 's all you can call it , Coming of Age in Samoa , because it 's mainly fictional , he would 've read her novelistic account , and then he would have compared it with other accounts , which had been published in German and other languages , and accounts of , of Samoans themselves , and he would have said , look there 's something wrong here .
29 If we do , we now have a model and can say that he and his family have been through it and have borne it with great fortitude , resilience and courage — as has been said , only through their deep religious faith — and that that has been a great lesson to us all .
30 Whatever the outcome , the UK financial sector has entered a period of increasing risk and uncertainty in which it remains to be seen whether the deregulation of the 1980s has provided it with competitive advantages .
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