Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges . |
| 2 | Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number . |
| 3 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |
| 4 | Miranda felt a melting and tickling inside her stomach as if someone was stroking it with a feather . |
| 5 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 6 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 7 | The plan , agreed in 1989 , was to replace it with a purpose-built dental hospital and postgraduate institute . |
| 8 | One of the first tasks for reclaiming the garden was to surround it with a leylandii hedge . |
| 9 | But the former golden girl of British tennis , who was mixing it with the world 's elite just five years ago , was pegged back when Smith won the second set tie-break 7-2 . |
| 10 | She wondered if he was saying it with a question in his voice , testing her response . |
| 11 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |
| 12 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 13 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 14 | Raynor had fetched wine from a corner cupboard , and was heating it with a thin iron rod which had been resting in the fire 's embers . |
| 15 | And perhaps Labour 's greatest ever mistake was to saddle it with the label ‘ poll tax ’ , thereby fixing in the public mind the link between voting and taxation . |