Example sentences of "[vb past] it with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The orgasmic bellowing began when I got the car into a slide as the track began to get wet with rain and caught it with opposite lock . |
| 2 | In fact , she dismissed it with one word — ‘ rubbish ’ — but we 'd just started the show when there was a loud bang . |
| 3 | He completely misjudged the question , and his translation was ignored by churchmen as well as by the editor of the influential Monthly Review , who had been irritated by Smart 's angry response to earlier criticism , and dismissed it with short shrift . |
| 4 | She set it down on the kitchen table , stroked it with one finger . |
| 5 | Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence . |
| 6 | Chiang Kai-shek built it with forced labour , and dusty antique-model lorries still ply it , driven by young men in white gloves . |
| 7 | Not all approached it with such seriousness . |
| 8 | ‘ I approached it with some trepidation but the satisfaction of passing was immense , ’ he said . |
| 9 | In my case , my parents used it with devastating overkill . |
| 10 | He pushed the invitation over to her : she regarded it with mock distaste . |
| 11 | I , I found it with utmost ease . |
| 12 | I have pricked my first blister , squeezed out the fluid , and dabbed it with surgical spirit . |
| 13 | Disappointed at the value put on his company by the stock market , which compared it with other electronics groups , he decided to spin-off Vodafone and Chubb . |
| 14 | No erm as I say , I never saw her in there erm I looked under the bed saw nothing was there , I just dropped it with one hand . |
| 15 | But after Habitat set about educating them to the advantages of the idea , the Americans adopted it with tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 16 | He studied it with growing distaste . |
| 17 | But what is really relevant is to state that against Ireland they played absolutely the right sort of game and they played it with utter conviction and quite brilliant execution . |
| 18 | I come from a fanatically rugby-conscious Welsh miner 's family ; five of my six brothers played it with some distinction . |
| 19 | Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part . |
| 20 | If Alice or Bert filled it with hot water and it leaked causing injury , would either of them have an action ? |
| 21 | Then she picked up the tall glass she had carried down with her , and which was now empty , walked sedately to the water 's edge , filled it with ice-cold water and returned to see that he had not shifted . |
| 22 | Then she went to the sink and filled it with lukewarm water and made the water frothy with soap-powder . |
| 23 | He opened the camera , took out the film and handed it with another smile to the man with the spoonbill nose . |
| 24 | Omi crooked a finger for the waitress who offered the bill with subtle deference , and Omi paid it with subtle superiority . |
| 25 | Ruth enquired politely , with her head in the basin as Gloria washed her hair , then rinsed it with another jug full of water . |
| 26 | We 're going to survive by being violent' — he expressed it with passionate intensity . |
| 27 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
| 28 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 29 | He returned it with this comment : ‘ I have never been to a Wesleyan school nor been at the bottom of my form ! ' |
| 30 | The box having been placed upon the table , he ordered it with great eagerness to be opened . |