Example sentences of "[vb past] it with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing on opposite sides of the pile , Mina and Kāli beat it with wooden spades , softening the clay and mixing in the cow-dung . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In fact , she dismissed it with one word — ‘ rubbish ’ — but we 'd just started the show when there was a loud bang . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She set it down on the kitchen table , stroked it with one finger . |
| 6 | Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence . |
| 7 | Chiang Kai-shek built it with forced labour , and dusty antique-model lorries still ply it , driven by young men in white gloves . |
| 8 | Not all approached it with such seriousness . |
| 9 | ‘ I approached it with some trepidation but the satisfaction of passing was immense , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The ultimate synthesis of a design was never revealed in a flash ; rather he approached it with infinite precautions , stalking it , as it were , now from one point of view , now from another , and always in fear lest a premature definition might deprive it of something of its total complexity . |
| 11 | In my case , my parents used it with devastating overkill . |
| 12 | He pushed the invitation over to her : she regarded it with mock distaste . |
| 13 | Then they tried it with various kinds of depression , even psychoses . |
| 14 | I , I found it with utmost ease . |
| 15 | I have pricked my first blister , squeezed out the fluid , and dabbed it with surgical spirit . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Encouraged by these findings we have formulated a bismuth enema and compared it with 5-ASA enemas in patients with active distal colitis to examine the therapeutic effect . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But after Habitat set about educating them to the advantages of the idea , the Americans adopted it with tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 20 | He ate it with some biscuits , getting it down fast , his face close to the plate , his fork-hand hooking round to beat illness to the punch . |
| 21 | She washed and rinsed it , dried it with several towels , then with a final towel about her shoulders , spread it out to dry , separating and kneading the long snaky strands . |
| 22 | He studied it with growing distaste . |
| 23 | He endowed it with vast lands and rights , including tithes of silver and other rights of tribute from the Slavs . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I come from a fanatically rugby-conscious Welsh miner 's family ; five of my six brothers played it with some distinction . |
| 26 | He lifted the object he was carving , lifted it with both hands to show to her . |
| 27 | He lifted it with both hands to take a bite , glancing wistfully at his cigarette in the ashtray . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If Alice or Bert filled it with hot water and it leaked causing injury , would either of them have an action ? |
| 30 | 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 . |