Example sentences of "[vb past] it with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | On the following day after the Christians had taken possession of the town , the Cid entered it with a great company , and he ascended the highest tower of the wall , and beheld all the city ; and the Moors came unto him , and kissed his hand , saying he was welcome . |
2 | Louis pushed his plate away from him , took the chop bone and tossed it to the springer who caught it with a single sharp snap . |
3 | She dismissed it with a regal gesture . |
4 | He dismissed it with a faint , scornful laugh as he moved towards the door . |
5 | Postine subdued it with a single blow to its long wrinkled neck . |
6 | Erm I would imagine Tukuse that the the difference that you put in difference that you would get between the reportage , to use a French expression , of Princess Diana 's abdication from public life was probably quite pronounced between say for example the Sun newspaper and the Independent newspaper I would imagine that the Independent newspaper probably did n't play in any great significance , it was probably on the front page , perhaps not with a picture but erm there was a couple of columns of report erm the Independent is famous as being the newspaper which when Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married many years ago , they reported it with a single paragraph saying Prince Charles and Diana , the whole world went made at the Royal Wedding and the Independent had one paragraph , which many people , including myself , said right on . |
7 | The seat had been Tory since 1970 and had been held since 1974 by Sir Charles , who retained it with a sizeable personal vote . |
8 | She bore it with a little smile of amusement that began to enrage me . |
9 | It stood about patiently until a crust dropped , then approached it with a sideways hopping motion and began to tear it . |
10 | Betty regarded it with a rich mixture of pity , admiration , mistrust and disgust . |
11 | When the community care Support Force was inaugurated , many SSDs regarded it with the same amount of suspicion and distrust as a bird would a snake . |
12 | An old worker , after giving the machine a jaundiced look , turned the handle and tried it with a few roots . |
13 | The darkness was so complete that Pliny compared it with a sealed room in which the lamp had been put out . |
14 | She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid . |
15 | His writing , prose and poetry demanded rigorous attention , and received it with the same daily routine that he had established earlier : three pages a day , writing and rewriting , creative and self-critical . |
16 | He tapped the baton on the desk and dropped it with a loud clatter . |
17 | Something sprang to the floor and he mashed it with a large flying-boot . |
18 | And he picked up his hand of cards , and surveyed it with a bewildered distracted satisfaction . |
19 | She followed the film stills with a series which took the convention of the centrefold pin-up and twisted it with a gauche naturalness — creating an awkward , sharp , counter-attack on voyeurism . |
20 | I 'd put the bike on the rack at the back and secured it with a bungy strap . |
21 | I found a photograph of Paul as a baby in one of the albums I kept in the loft , and after the ceremony I wrote the name of the new catapult on the back of the picture , scrunched it up around a steelie and secured it with a little tape , then went down , out of the loft and the house , into the chill drizzle of a new day . |
22 | Tammuz put down the drinks and poked it with a cautious finger . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | To keep the look simple , we teamed it with a short cotton knit skirt , £36 , SML , from Fenn Wright & Manson , but it would look equally good with jeans or leggings . |
25 | When they discovered this famous Plowden sentence about the importance of the child at the top of this chapter , they welcomed it with a great sigh of relief . |
26 | Tony Cascarino dispatched it with a towering header , and that was that . |
27 | So my father got a secondhand clockwork train , repaired it with a soldering iron , and gave it to me for Christmas when I was nearly three . |
28 | When he knocked at her door , she was ready , and opened it with a cool expression . |
29 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
30 | Then he went to his wall safe , opened it with the second key on the ring attached by a chain to his trouser belt , and took out his papers . |