Example sentences of "[vb past] it with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Tom related the tale for the second time and followed it with the daring exploits of Pecos Bill from the comic Willie had chosen . |
| 6 | He followed it with the endearing Doorway ( Severe ) a year later . |
| 7 | He said nothing , forked another fish , swallowed it with the same indifference he might appropriate to putting out the rubbish . |
| 8 | ‘ Because of the angle I had no chance of getting it over the bar with my right foot so I simply hit it with the left and it went over . ’ |
| 9 | Yet for a long time the Cult of Pleasure was respectable and none connected it with the hidden worship of Chaos . |
| 10 | We then looked at the remarkable record of capitalism in creating wealth and contrasted it with the present malaise which now seems to infect most economies of the Western world . |
| 11 | We looked at the remarkable record of capitalism in creating wealth and contrasted it with the present malaise which now seems to infect most economies of the Western world . |
| 12 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 13 | The delicious Rob Walker who , in a journalistic disguise , was and is still around in the sport , must be the only other man I ever met in FI who while at the heart of the sport never took it with the grim tenacity with which the more parvenu consider the business of winning and losing . |
| 14 | Thomas unlocked it with the larger of his two keys , and taking from its sconce the last of the torches that burned along the passage , led the way through to a narrow spiral stairway , and began to descend without hesitation into the depths . |
| 15 | He got it with the cruel bonus of a broken jaw but took Tyson the distance . |
| 16 | I got it with the fourth one |
| 17 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |
| 18 | The surprise here is that they did it with the best , very purest intentions , poor lambs . |
| 19 | But somehow Sampras did reach it and Forget managed to make sure with his second volley and said later ‘ … but I 'm not quite sure how I did it with the wrong grip ’ . |
| 20 | Well , I mean , if we , if we did it with the free ferry , and there 's a possibility we might be able to get fairly cheap accommodation if we drove over there and stayed . |
| 21 | It goes without saying that he did not serve scrambled eggs with smoked haddock , he cooked the haddock first , flaked it , and mixed it with the beaten eggs before cooking them . |
| 22 | A coal fell out of the fire , making them both start , and Breeze replaced it with the exaggerated care with which we perform these trivial tasks , when our thoughts are far away . |
| 23 | It had originally been called The Rest Cure but Eliot discovered that the title had already been used and , after some hesitation , he replaced it with The Elder Statesman . |
| 24 | The announcement came in a Commons written reply by the roads minister , Kenneth Carlisle , but by that time most of the UK 's 9000 test stations had already halted the test and replaced it with the old visual check for excess smoke . |
| 25 | Me , I 've tucking had it with the small place . |
| 26 | IBM developed SQL , a non-procedural data definition language , and launched it with the original SQL/DS under DOS/VSE back in 1980 . |
| 27 | The young man — not a man at all , in fact , but a boy dressed like a man , bearing himself like a man — made a strange gesture : holding one hand at head-height , he struck it with the other , palm against palm , a glancing blow . |
| 28 | He bandaged it with the remaining strip of cloth . |