Example sentences of "[vb -s] it with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sherfey ( 1970 ) points out that femininity may not be a transhistorical absolute ; but her certainty that it exists now endows it with contemporary universality . |
| 2 | Rita is a lively observer of her world , and describes it with vivid insight . |
| 3 | Tim Albery 's production takes this weird eighteenth-century fantasy of nobles , bourgeois , and servants , all of whom finally settle for marrying their own class , and instils it with Fuselian surrealism . |
| 4 | So , if the retailer moves the tea or coffee every few weeks and replaces it with another product ( perhaps one that does n't sell as well ) he can bring it to the customer 's attention . |
| 5 | In consequence , that aspect of it which links it with previous practice has diminished almost at times to the point of disappearance . |
| 6 | His slightly pedantic manner is n't perhaps quite what 's wanted for the part , but he has studied it closely , sings it with unfailing musicality , as regards intonation , note values , dynamics and phrasing , and in Ac ; t 3 catches most of Tristan 's desperation and longing . |
| 7 | Tim does come back to Bristol frequently and remembers it with great affection . |
| 8 | He remembers it with considerable affection . |
| 9 | That was the time — and Rosen remembers it with obvious affection — when the spirit in schools was high , when teachers enjoyed opening school books , running book and reading clubs , and staying late after the bell to do so . |
| 10 | Atkinson himself favours this second approach and contrasts it with direct taxation ( a tax on total income or expenditure with varying marginal rates ) by considering what he calls ‘ transitional ’ taxes . |
| 11 | Known as bacteroids , they then begin the process of nitrogen fixation and the resulting ammonia is absorbed by the host plant which combines it with glutamic acid to produce glutamine . |
| 12 | Much of this music has no other recording — and none of it on the harp , and King plays it with rare strength , sensitivity and the conviction of one who is also inventing it as the same time — and is delighted by his own trouvailles . |
| 13 | Denice jabs it with considerable force into our forehead . |
| 14 | When Winston Smith and O'Brien pledge themselves to a revolution against dictatorship , the toast is not to the future but to the past which , as O'Brien puts it with mock gravity , is ‘ more important ’ . |
| 15 | Mike Conolly , off-licence chief at Sainsbury 's and thus Britain 's biggest buyer of wine , puts it with commendable candour : ‘ The Grandes Marques ( such as Bollinger , Moët , etc ) are intent on imposing very sizeable increases in the full knowledge that a further decline in sales will result . ’ |
| 16 | As one exponent of individualism puts it with unusual explicitness , |
| 17 | The larva heaps sand or soil onto its head and jaws and then flicks it with some force up and behind it , working in a circle to produce a conical pit . |
| 18 | The orchestra contains pairs of horns and trumpets , but Leppard manages it with more lightness than he accords other work and textures are accordingly more transparent and Mozartian . |
| 19 | When you have seen it done twice , and furthermore your mother does it with complete confidence and expects you to eat the result , then you are sure . |
| 20 | Persuading others to accept the hard financial facts of life is not usually a very popular job , but he does it with great tact and skill , and under his guidance I do believe that our deficit is under control , and that it will be reduced . |
| 21 | Anyone who has served with him at the Department — and I am talking not just about his present ministerial team — knows that he not only brings a greater degree of expertise to his job than anyone I can remember but does it with great inventiveness in terms of improving benefits and with an exceptional degree of compassion and , above all , integrity . |