Example sentences of "[verb] it with an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be inclined to house the mower elsewhere , or replace it with an electric one . |
| 2 | The alternative , of close integration of the railways into the central machinery of the state , has not proved suitable for the efficient conduct of complex productive activities ; a Spanish experiment with direct ministerial control during the late 1950s ( RENFE 1957m : vii , ix ; IBRD 1963 : 192–3 ) was shortlived , and the disadvantages of direct control have recently led the Italian government , for example , to remove the state railway from under the direct control of the transport ministry and endow it with an autonomous corporate structure ( Railway Gazette International , December 1985 : 926–7 ) . |
| 3 | If we were to refer to the light , we would not associate it with an individual object . |
| 4 | It stigmatises the conduct , which is important if the public is to view it with an appropriate degree of revulsion . |
| 5 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 6 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 7 | It defined Spanish patriotism , endowing it with an enduring myth . |
| 8 | he does n't do that , I cut it with an electric cutter . |
| 9 | I made it a condition that I 'd only do it with an American choreographer , and my assistant is American , too . ’ |
| 10 | The government has said nothing about the need to end the fiction of self regulation and to replace it with an efficient and effective and cheaper direct regulation . |
| 11 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 12 | Matt eventually replaces it with an electric violin , deep on echo and reverb , swelling and rolling like a full orchestra , pitching the sombre melodies into the realms of classic film soundtracks . |
| 13 | He hated illness , hated it with an inner anger as though sickness were a devil attacking his life , his plans for his future , his energy . |
| 14 | Mr Kronenburg 's lawyers accepted that the defamation was accidental , four-figure damages were paid , and Chatto & Windus , having first withdrawn the book , has reissued it with an elaborate disclaimer slip . |
| 15 | But in ‘ Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory ’ the Kantian insight is used to defend his theory against various criticisms by providing it with an epistemological foundation . |
| 16 | He grew it , merged it with an American company , then a few years later , having developed a multimillion pound empire , cast around for a new challenge . |
| 17 | Gather the crêpe paper at one end of the roll and secure it with an elastic band ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 18 | Limnaea perega , and compare it with an a-helical protein ( such as tropomyosin found in muscles ) . |
| 19 | Cynthia Iliffe shared with the Board a feeling that it could be rather ‘ a hybrid sort of degree course at first ’ , but Pocock and the Board really believed in it , understood that the Crick model of a discipline-based degree had provided it with an academic foundation , but even then ‘ we talked a lot about integration ’ . |
| 20 | These difficulties could be overcome by using finely ground copper carbonate rather than metal , and mixing it with an organic glue . |
| 21 | Just for a moment , standing by the window , dropping the edge of the curtain he had lifted and turning back towards the cot , Adam saw the picture again , saw it with an awful clarity on the darkness before his eyes . |
| 22 | We should never have got rid of the little Fiat we used to have which started first time every time and if anything did go wrong you could fix it with an elastic band or a bit of string , Gianluigi used to say , although personally I 'm hopeless with machinery . |
| 23 | This can be seen quite clearly by looking at a passage in the autobiographical A Christmas Story , and comparing it with an unpublished hand-scrawled manuscript I found in his papers . |
| 24 | Although the Daily Telegraph 's reviewer thought the twenty-year-old too young for the role of Buddy , he conceded that ‘ he plays it with an infectious sense of fun . |
| 25 | Between these two ridges the fire of the sunset falls along the trough of the sea , dyeing it with an awful but glorious light , the intense and lurid splendour which burns like gold , and bathes like blood . |
| 26 | An old , glazed porcelain sink can be transformed into a water garden by coating it with an artificial stone mixture . |
| 27 | These arguments tend to be supported by a detailed study of the impact of the war on East London ( Bush 1978 ) , and the more recent work of Waites ( 1987 ) in which he demonstrates that during the war the working class was able temporarily to reappropriate nationalist sentiment , articulating it with an assertive , class-conscious resistance to perceived excesses of capitalist exploitation . |
| 28 | Three things I 've always wanted to do : go to Machu Picchu , put my foot in Lake Titicaca and make it with an oriental chick . |
| 29 | We share it with an unwelcome assortment of fellow travellers . |
| 30 | Most reckon that , with the holding in Hanson 's balance sheet as a fixed asset , Lord Hanson will probably hold on for maybe 18 months before placing it with an alternative international predator . |