Example sentences of "[to-vb] it with the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As you will have realised by now this is not a fish for the person with a small community tank , but as long as you are prepared to provide it with the correct conditions , it is perfectly feasible for the novice to keep and breed the fish successfully .
2 And you used to have a little ticket , with the days on , and they used to punch it with the old , you remember the old punching machines , do n't you ?
3 The previous type may then have become invalid , and coin users presumably had to replace it with the new one , a troublesome process , as the volume of some types ran into millions of coins .
4 It is helpful to discuss it with the main witnesses , first off ; brings it alive , if you know what I mean . ’
5 The Marshall Plan was supposedly open to all Europeans and in late June Molotov came to Paris to discuss it with the British and French foreign ministers , Ernest Bevin and Georges Bidault .
6 So in practical terms of helping shoppers to make sound buying choices , the value of increased familiarity with APRs is somewhat curtailed by the way that people generally seem to equate it with the add-on cost of the credit .
7 l The intent has been not only to describe the activity , but also to surround it with the appropriate drama .
8 Er but er I 've managed to fiddle it with the suggested preachers for the November series , which I have come a little bit unstuck about .
9 ‘ There is not a shadow of a doubt that we are going to win this election and that we are going to win it with the strongest possible representation in this region .
10 Yeah , you 've got to do it with the right inflect as well .
11 There are the facilities here and it 's a shame not to use it with the all the tramways and the railways lines .
12 Anyone familiar with the clear , highly distinctive aroma of geranium would know that one would need to be totally anosmic to confuse it with the soft , deep notes of sandalwood .
13 When it came to fisticuffs Sean Connery was happy to mix it with the best of them — ‘ He believed stuntmen were there to take the knocks and let them have it in the fight scenes , ’ said one .
14 An acceptable reason for not introducing an FE funding council — although I do not say that the reason would be either accurate or right — would be if the Government intended to merge it with the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council .
15 The larger the largest structure in the universe the more difficult it becomes to reconcile it with the uniform distribution of matter in the early universe .
16 I have never been able to see it with the naked eye ( as some observers claim to have done ) , but it is not hard to find with × 7 , and it is easy with × 8.5 .
17 It was such qualities , combined with its outstanding durability and scarcity , that led the Chinese to invest it with the symbolic qualities and applications that served to mark it out all the more emphatically as for them precious beyond all other substances .
18 WordPerfect on it to compare it with the other one and it was I er said
19 Leaving the Chamber now and again to compare it with the live BBC-2 coverage , Mr Brown also looked very telegenic .
20 Its size , and the fact that it was printed on the Pitman Press at Bath , lead one to compare it with the ornithological publications of Poyser which it closely resembles .
21 This enabled us to calculate the ratio of cortex to ganglion cells for the region enclosed within the labelled sites and to compare it with the same ratio obtained for the rest of the retina .
22 We shall certainly try to monitor it with the best precision that we can but , at this stage , we do not have firm figures .
23 I rather thought just wanted to contrast it with the other case and er it may not be obvious to the jury but why , why did you want a shot gun that 's a little shorter ?
24 Moreover , they choose to disregard the ordinary law governing the transfer of title , calling it the civil law , as if to contrast it with the criminal law and thus render it surplus to requirements .
25 So absorbed , or intoxicated , was it that I used to photograph it with the other hand .
26 He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base .
27 Yes , just go straight on to policy and resources , we we have to take it with the main motion , I mean if it 's passed it 's a s standing motion .
28 So I went to tax it with the fifty five quid as I thought !
29 Our meals now regularly consisted of hummus , salad , chips and often meat , chicken or fried steak ( which George called ‘ buffteak ’ which was closer to the mark — and particularly apt when we were trying to cut it with the inevitable plastic knife ) , and glasses of Pepsi .
30 If ever German society was to collapse , argued a writer in 1855 , it would be because the middle classes had begun to pursue appearance and luxury ‘ without seeking to counterbalance it with the simple and hard-working ( competent ) sense of the bourgeois [ Buergersinn ] , with respect for the spiritual forces of life , with the effort to identify science , ideas and talent with the progressive development of the Third Estate ’ .
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