Example sentences of "[prep] it with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two storeys below it with a beautiful , rich , decoratively carved entablature on classical pattern and , below , Byzantine carved capitals of basket design and exceptional quality . |
| 2 | Abraham got the bounce of the ball and made the most of it with a cracking shot . |
| 3 | Jack faded out of it with a 76 in the third round , though , and then had that fantastic 65 in the last round — all too late . |
| 4 | We came out the other side of it with a temporary chauffeur , a good profit and a really first-rate new name : that of Hamilton de Souza . |
| 5 | you do n't have to draw round it , just draw a picture of it with a nice broad stem and a round head , now Mark what was left ? |
| 6 | He seemed to be inspecting the train , raking the length of it with a slow , sweeping , lop-sided gaze . |
| 7 | God , how novelists recover ! … and you begin to wonder how you can make use of it with a little shifting here , and a little adding there , something can be made of it , surely ? ’ |
| 8 | The Victorians also come in for considerable attention , some of it with a feminist slant , while , not surprisingly perhaps , Latin America still seems to be chic . |
| 9 | I 'd spent most of it with the other two , one bad and the other indifferent , now I 'd come across a good one and fate gave us four years together , that 's all . |
| 10 | But , from the standpoint of current usage in other social sciences and the philosophy of science , Realism aspires to be a Positive science and Behaviouralism is a particular version of it with an austere view of what is testable . |
| 11 | It was more or less at eye level , because I was on the floor at the time , and I crawled towards it with a muffled sensation of triumph . |
| 12 | Legion led Ace into it with a certain swagger , if a green balloon trailing pink strands could be said to swagger . |
| 13 | Barely six months earlier , however , another trap had been laid and I had fallen into it with a resounding thud . |
| 14 | ‘ that a person who has entered into the contract may either affirm or avoid such contract after the duress has ceased ; and if he has so voluntarily acted under it with a full knowledge of all the circumstances he may be held bound on the ground of ratification , or if , after escaping from the duress , he takes no steps to set aside the transaction he may be found to have affirmed it . ’ |
| 15 | Spurred on by excitement , he snatched out another double handful of weed and there , moonlight flickering from it with every feeble movement , was a small Severn salmon . |
| 16 | He remembered his own great grief , and how he had finally emerged from it with a renewed sense of purpose ; for though his epic was intended to address the spiritual crisis of the age , it had also been conceived as a requiem for his lost wife and a celebration of her unwavering faith in his ability . |
| 17 | On into the Room Without a Name they had passed and through to the room it communicated with , the Room of Astonishment , so called because it had a cupboard in it with a little staircase inside that wound its way up into the loft . |
| 18 | The home side now began to look much the better side and Cummings kept Town in it with a fine selection of acrobatic saves . |
| 19 | While recognising that successful sexual relations in later life depended to some extent on earlier satisfactory sexual expression the study known as the Starr-Weiner Report ( Starr and Bakur-Weiner , 1982 ) confirmed that ‘ Older adults are interested in sex , think about it , desire it , engage in it with the same frequency that Kinsey reported for forty year-olds . ’ |
| 20 | With a sense of destiny , I leaned forward and tapped upon it with an invisible finger . |
| 21 | If he glances at this , he is able to step quickly over it with a good length stride , without tripping or interrupting the rhythmical pattern of normal walking . |
| 22 | I want to take a handful of good men and go over it with a fine-tooth comb . |
| 23 | " Your Memorialists would be glad if the School could be placed in such a position as to enable them to send their children to it with a reasonable expectation that their manners would not be corrupted by the admission of a class of boys more fitted for National Schools than Grammar Schools . |
| 24 | But whether there was actual fighting or not , the situation was obviously perceived as a military threat by the Roman administration , who reacted to it with a large-scale military response . |
| 25 | He was particularly adept , this one , at stopping a forward bursting through from the line-out with a startling iron-hard thrust from his stump as he pulled him on to it with the other … |
| 26 | Although providing a degree of flexibility to cope with ground settlement , this type of joint tended to leak and a cement filling was added to it with the whole pipe laid on a bed of concrete carried up the sides . |
| 27 | Its thirteen powerful dorsal spines contain enough poison to kill any human swimmer who accidentally treads on it with a bare foot . |
| 28 | From the doorway , Pete watched her turn the key on it with a certain relief . |
| 29 | Always inspect each hook closely before you use it ; test it for breaking or bending ; reduce or remove the barb where necessary , and work on it with a fine oil stone until it is as sharp as you can get it — this should not actually be necessary with the new chemically sharpened hooks . |
| 30 | He sat on it with the two little girls and gave them a big smile . |