Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] it with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The villagers looked down at it with the satisfaction of those who could n't swim and certainly would n't want to try . |
| 2 | Tap , tap , tap , sparks flying everywhere and we were just above it with the cranes , waiting to fill the big ladles . |
| 3 | He bashed away at it with the A.S.M. solidly from eleven fifteen , when he arrived at the theatre , until half past two , without any break for lunch or the drink he desperately craved . |
| 4 | Edith Wiens has a tight vibrato , not at all like the vibrato of French sopranos and which rather spoils her second soprano solo , but the others make up for it with the highly unusual duo for first soprano and bass , accompanied by harp and organ ( an arresting combination ) , or with the utterly ravishing trio for first soprano , tenor and bass , with its elaborate harp accompaniment . |
| 5 | Oliver held up the bottom of the pocket with one hand , as he had seen the Dodger hold it , and pulled the handkerchief lightly out of it with the other . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 8 | She smashed down hard against it with the hammer , and the window shook , tiny cracks appeared like earthquake faults . |