Example sentences of "[vb past] it with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | She walked across the clearing and prodded it with the gun till it fell to the ground . |
2 | I caught it with the catapult , the thick black tubing of the rubber twisting once in the air as I scissored my hands and fell back , letting the buck go over my head and then kicking with my legs and turning myself so that I was level with it where it lay , kicking and struggling with the power of a wolverine , spreadeagled on the sand slope with its neck caught in the black rubber . |
3 | I caught it with the jet of flame and it zipped off out of range , heading for the water by the side of the hill the savage buck had attacked me on . |
4 | He stroked it with the side of the whisky glass , smiled , drank . |
5 | Aberdeen , whatever its staging-post status in their plans , received the same attention as their eventual western destinations , and Johnson approached it with the attitude he later brought to the Highlands and the west , with Boswell , for his part , consistent in the manner and style of his own reportage — observing Johnson as he observed Scotland . |
6 | Very probably he gave Arp the drawing , who used it with the artist 's consent . |
7 | Touching down on the main wheels first , the Ercoupe twitched into line ; they even tried it with the rudder pedals locked , flying on elevator and aileron only , but found the feeling ‘ rather disconcerting ’ ! |
8 | She found a pair of stockings , passed her hand through to check for runs , discovered a small one near the heel and dabbed it with the bar of soap to hold it ; put on her two-tone coffee and cream high-heel shoes , then looking close in the mirror , applied some eyeliner with the flick of a tail in the corner and painted pale lipstick on her mouth . |
9 | they 're , went to all that trouble to produce a good photograph , and absolutely ruined it with the stool . |
10 | He compared it with the scheme 30 years ago when Britain built tall chimneys to disperse pollution over a wide area . |
11 | They have determined the number of BL Lac objects per unit volume of space , and compared it with the space density of quasars and other types of active galaxies ( submitted to the Astrophysical Journal ) . |
12 | First they measured the background — the number of gamma rays in the natural environment such as those produced by the concrete in the laboratory and compared it with the number of gamma rays when the electrochemical cell was present . |
13 | I picked up the jar which was slippery on the outside from dripped paint and , screwing its lid on , dropped it with the brush into a plastic bag before stowing it again in my pouch . |
14 | So the wise woman , taking a whip in her hand , seated herself on a small carpet and lashed it with the whip until it rose in the air and carried her to the forest . |
15 | He secured it with the safety-pin . |
16 | He unrolled the parchment , scrubbed it with the pumice-stone and gently blew the fragments away , dipped his quill into the unclasped inkhorn and began to draft a letter to Burnell . |
17 | It opened the floodgates to a deluge of referrals , altered the whole balance of its work and confronted it with the enormity of ‘ need ’ in terms of family poverty and homelessness . |
18 | Eventually MacPhie found he could break the spell of the magic thread if he cut it with the woman 's magic hatchet . |
19 | When you touched it with the edge of your hand , your skin felt as though it had become attached so that you were in danger of becoming a part of Mrs Parvis 's table for ever . |
20 | Woolley touched it with the muzzle of his gun . |
21 | She pressed it with the tip of her index finger , trying to figure out what it could be . |
22 | We put immense pressure on them , we tried everything we could , we raised it with the Transport Users consultative committee at National Level , we wrote to the minister and all kinds of and they did n't budge at all , you would n't think they were a public body . |
23 | The Orb have taken the underground music of previous decades ( Floyd , Tangerine Dream , Can , etc ) and welded it with the fall-out of dance culture to come up with something very strange and potent . |
24 | He cleansed his palate with a sip of iced water , then flooded it with the crisp , light taste of Veuve Clicquot . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | On the other hand , there were ‘ Romantic ’ straws in the wind : strong personalities who directed without instrument ( in Berlin , J.F. Reichardt ; for Paris , see below ) ; and the move towards an ‘ international ’ concert repertory which took responsibility away from the keyboardist ( by tradition , the composer ) and placed it with the violin leader . |
27 | Ultimately , the fragmentary nature of the Habsburg empire led to its fall , leaving the Spanish in control of Italy , a position they would maintain until the early part of the eighteenth-century when they lost it with the War of the Spanish Succession . |
28 | To do this he sent me to another sort of specialist who inserted through my neck a needle containing blue dye , guided it with the help of a television screen into the top of my spinal cord and then watched its progress as it trickled down . |
29 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
30 | He employed it with the subtlety of a knuckle-duster . |