Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] it with [art] " in BNC.

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1 All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room .
2 Trent met it with a slight movement of the tiller bar , and the big catamaran lifted smoothly .
3 Postine subdued it with a single blow to its long wrinkled neck .
4 Bartram had insisted that this differed from the candleberry , Myrica cerifera , while Miller had found other authors ranging it with the Liquidambar , ‘ so I shall be much obliged to you , if you can send me a perfect specimen , that I may determine its proper genus . ’
5 Cunningham defended it with every weapon he could muster .
6 Two lifts link it with the private sun terrace , bathing platform and sea water swimming pool below .
7 And yesterday the story had a happy ending when the man who bought the ring returned it with a mumbled apology .
8 Woolley touched it with the muzzle of his gun .
9 Holding started it with a blistering over of flat-out speed that accounted for Boycott , after which no one passed 26 and they were all out for 122 , with Croft again the leading wicket-taker .
10 Silence fell , hanging over them for several minutes before Travis broke it with a casual observation .
11 The position carried with it the right to a seat in the Council and Fould combined it with the office of Minister of State .
12 He wrote a cheque and Josh okayed it with the bank — phoned Hnatiuk , the manager , at home . ’
13 Stok quoted it with an excellent Highland accent , ‘ Robert Burns , ’ pronounced Stok , ’ ‘ To a Mouse ’ . ’
14 CPRW believes this review provides it with a major opportunity to influence the Board 's future direction .
15 This special five-year chart shows a more balanced result than our two-month version ( see page 67 ) ; here longer term , established titles mix it with the ‘ Big Names ’ .
16 However , unlike the working-class area , the shopping centre is also a transport centre : there is a main line station on the national rail network and two underground lines connect it with the rest of London .
17 Operational deposits make up approximately a fifth of bankers ' balances held at the bank , the remainder being made up of non-interest bearing cash deposits that banks are required to keep at the Bank of England to provide it with an income .
18 Augustus Aikhomu replacing it with a vice-presidency to which on Aug. 30 he appointed Aikhomu ; the appointment caused some surprise in that the job had been expected to go to a civilian .
19 Augustus Aikhomu replacing it with a vice-presidency to which on Aug. 30 he appointed Aikhomu ; the appointment caused some surprise in that the job had been expected to go to a civilian .
20 The first engine rolled out of the Springfield sheds on November 4 1902 , and it would have been one of the last to use the level crossing at Thompson Street because very soon the council seem to have ordered Stivvies to replace it with a bridge .
21 As well as an excellent display , the Lynx has a much louder speaker and — in the tradition of the Atari 8-bits and Commodore Amiga — a powerful set of chips to help it with the animation needed for superior three-dimensional games .
22 There he found the greatest novelty of all : a twenty-eight-day dial that showed the phases of the moon — at least , it had been the moon when Nora bought the watch but she had got a miniaturist to overpaint it with an enamel portrait of herself .
23 Hall implied that adolescence covered the years from sexual maturity to the end of physical growth in a person 's twenties , which was not dissimilar to the early nineteenth-century concept of youth , but all those who followed Hall equated it with the teen years .
24 ‘ I want a clean up , not a snakesiren making it with a mongoose on my face . ’
25 Erm , the only time it was really good in my area was when Urban District Council did it with a little chap pushing a barrow and cutting the grass and it all looked absolutely beautiful .
26 The horse was totally confused by now and it eased forward in the shafts not knowing what to do next , until Broomhead reminded it with a few well-chosen obscenities .
27 With all the oscillation that was involved in that er shop stewards taking cases up , the shop stewards discussing it with the management , the management 's involvement , the management 's attitude becoming gradually , not weakened but er inured to the stewards ' fundamental logical claims on behalf of their members , made it easier you know , and progress was , was being noted that , and earnings were rising , earnings were rising .
28 Telford 's warehouses were mostly destroyed by fire in 1970 , but Porters Row survives as an example of his workers ' houses , and locks on what is now the Shropshire Union Canal descend the hillside to link it with the ship canal .
29 It ran upstairs and hid under a bed , then leapt on top of a wardrobe as Mrs Topliff confronted it with a broom handle .
30 Tascam made it with a bit of the old ‘ Come All Ye ’ and mouths fell open ‘ aghast ’ when Mr Magic , Sam Woods , placed his assistant in a cabinet , broke it down into five separate pieces , and put her back together again , except that now her head replaced her knee-caps !
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