Example sentences of "[verb] it with the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had watched her apply a smear of eye-black below her lower lashes , then dust it with the palest face-powder until her eyes appeared extra large and dark-rimmed . |
| 2 | It is also the budget that has taken notice of what the opposition have actually said we listened to you we have not persevered with our original thinking , we 've talked to the officers , we 've listened to what you 've said , we may not have done it with the greatest grace possible but . |
| 3 | She revived the house , filling it with the best Paris could offer in people and le bon goût , in the tradition established there by her great predecessor Pauline Borghese , who employed Napoleon 's architect Fontaine to remodel the interior ( and sold the house to the Duke of Wellington ) . |
| 4 | Portes suggests that UN agencies , using a more restricted definition of informal proletariat , would equate it with the poorest 40 per cent . |
| 5 | ‘ There is not a shadow of a doubt that we are going to win this election and that we are going to win it with the strongest possible representation in this region . |
| 6 | ‘ Now I 'm in the side , I 'm running into these superstars and thinking I 'm only a young boy , but I 'm mixing it with the best . |
| 7 | When it came to fisticuffs Sean Connery was happy to mix it with the best of them — ‘ He believed stuntmen were there to take the knocks and let them have it in the fight scenes , ’ said one . |
| 8 | Try it with the best Agatha Christies . |
| 9 | We shall certainly try to monitor it with the best precision that we can but , at this stage , we do not have firm figures . |
| 10 | The surprise here is that they did it with the best , very purest intentions , poor lambs . |