Example sentences of "[v-ing] it with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lake Windermere 's ranger 's annual report has accused boat owners of polluting it with raw sewage and spent fuel , leading to noxious smells in warm weather . |
| 2 | X owned an ox which , while his servants were driving it with due care through a town , entered the shop of Y , an ironmonger , through an open door . |
| 3 | That 's very different from say er destroying this book and replacing it with this book . |
| 4 | If it is not feasible to move the fish , then change 50% of the pondwater , once again replacing it with dechlorinated water at the right temperature . |
| 5 | Norte weaves her observations into a witty text , filling it with multicultural detail . |
| 6 | When inserting posts or stakes into the ground for use as fence supports , good rigidity can be ensured by inserting the post through the centre of a four-litre plastic ice cream carton , then filling it with concrete mix . |
| 7 | His voice rasped each word on to her pouting mouth , caressing it with sweet warmth . |
| 8 | Mr Healy claimed that Down District Council was in danger of spending grant aid and ratepayers ' money on a high risk tourist venture and confusing it with economic development . |
| 9 | Once every six months it may be worth considering removing all the stock to another tank and syphoning all the coral sand out , cleaning it with mature tank water and returning it . |
| 10 | According to a report by the official Tass news agency , Imiadze and two accomplices had stormed into Abashidze 's office while the latter was chairing a meeting , spraying it with submachine-gun fire . |
| 11 | Her virtuosity with language is not in doubt ( and all credit to her translator for rendering it with such vitality ) . |
| 12 | The fact that it is a salamander can be experimentally demonstrated by feeding it with thyroid extract . |
| 13 | When Sara awoke and looked outside at the deep cloudless blue sky , she guessed that her hostess was also scanning it with equal pleasure . |
| 14 | Alternatively , by resting pasture or grazing it with another host , such as sheep , which are not susceptible to O. ostertagi , until most of the existing L3 on the pasture have died out . |
| 15 | Fielding it with one hand , she sobered , and , putting her glass down on the fender , she hugged the cushion on her knees . |
| 16 | With very fine seed try mixing it with fine silver sand to ensure the seeds are not sown too closely . |
| 17 | She gave him a last long look and went out , shutting it with unnecessary firmness behind her . |
| 18 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 19 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 20 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 21 | Clare told me he 'd taken rather a lot of convincing — once he 'd determined to do the slightly naff champagne-pyramid stunt in the first place — not to try doing it with proper champagne flutes but to use the perry glasses like everybody else did ; too tall , too unstable otherwise . |
| 22 | He had picked up a book and was standing there , reading it with great concentration — just as if he were in his own armchair at home . |
| 23 | Drawing on this database and combining it with current research into the planning of innovative activities in R & D departments has yielded a framework which provides useful insights into the innovation process . |
| 24 | Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , not a man to be seduced by charm alone , thought rather little of " Diffugere nives " , coupling it with another poem , the twelfth ode of the fourth book , and dismissing the pair alike as Frühlingslieder ( " unremarkable spring songs " ) , which Goethe , " " , ( " only remind us , like Goethe of old , " " and if time goes swiftly by , the seasons come again " " ) ( 1913 ) . |
| 25 | Korth ( 1979 ) illustrated the breakage resulting from coyote predation , comparing it with physical abrasion , but he did not document the breakage in any systematic way . |
| 26 | We set it by comparing it with some reference time . |
| 27 | He ran one finger to the soft tip of her breast , touching it with infinite delicacy . |
| 28 | ‘ I came to my senses , ’ she said , economising with the truth until she felt more capable of handling it with any degree of calm . |
| 29 | Curval hesitated a moment , then turned back , reaching across DeVore to take the sealed slide from the microscope , handling it with extreme delicacy . |
| 30 | It was kept clean by the simple method of scrubbing it with fine sand — a commodity in no short supply during Richard 's desert campaigns ! |