Example sentences of "[to-vb] it with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their elders make it upstairs in the flats , attended by small children — brothers and sisters who grow up in the Gorbals , Glasser says , to try it with each other . |
| 2 | The problem is to provide it with updated forecast data ’ . |
| 3 | It looks to you to provide it with that light . |
| 4 | Similar regulations and procedures have delayed both the promotion and dismissal of staff and have hampered the ZBS by failing to provide it with adequate transport when needed at short notice . |
| 5 | ‘ I used to worry about Darth Vader , ’ Prentice confessed , putting his arm round Rory 's waist and lifting his foot to massage it with one hand . |
| 6 | The one indisputable fact these studies revealed is that the majority of those interviewed were not familiar with the extent of , or damage caused by , corporate crime and amongst the ‘ knowledgeable ’ minority , few were able to define it with any precision . |
| 7 | She was trying to open it with one hand , while the other held the bearskin to her breasts , when Guy reached down and retrieved her shift . |
| 8 | And how strange it was that , after all these months of resolutely not thinking about her old life in the States , she should begin to remember it with such pleasure ! |
| 9 | Often the polyps withdraw , and the polypary may shrink slightly as the animal expels water from inside the body to replace it with fresh water . |
| 10 | Chicherin ( with benefit of hindsight ) described the challenges which lay ahead as follows : [ Alexander ] was called upon to execute one of the hardest tasks which can confront an autocratic ruler : to completely remodel the enormous state which had been entrusted to his care , to abolish an age-old order founded on slavery , to replace it with civic decency and freedom , to establish justice in a country which had never known the meaning of legality , to redesign the entire administration , to introduce freedom of the press in the context of untrammelled authority , to call new forces to life at every turn and set them on firm legal foundations , to put a repressed and humiliated society on its feet and to give it the chance to flex its muscles . |
| 11 | Then they can pause in a reading to worry out a meaning , and to discuss it with each other . |
| 12 | I did not take any of that seriously , though I would have had to be ice all through to hear it with utter in-difference . |
| 13 | ‘ The trick is to cover it with black pepper , and when that 's gone , cover it again . ’ |
| 14 | A large puddle results and drivers swerve into the middle of the road to avoid it with consequent danger to oncoming vehicles and pedestrians . |
| 15 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 16 | he tries to do it with one finger but he 's just not quite strong enough |
| 17 | you have to do it with that hand |
| 18 | Instead of smelting the ore with charcoal in slow processes aided by waterwheels , they needed to do it with cheap coke produced by the rapidly expanding coal-mining industry . |
| 19 | But we 'll have to do it with cold water and the yard broom . ’ |
| 20 | Rugs employing this scheme are becoming increasingly rare and , although it may still be found on some workshop items , the only group to use it with any regularity are the Abadeh weavers of south central Persia , India and Pakistan make a few rugs in this design . |
| 21 | With the Sim-Fix it is unnecessary to punch extra fixing points in the slate and the strap is quickly and easily nailed to the batten with three optional fixing points , making it possible to use it with any size of slate . |
| 22 | How was it then that all these ordinary people seemed to manage it with effortless ease ? |
| 23 | But we feel so ill at ease with silence that we want to fill it with endless clatter and talk about ourselves . |
| 24 | With a great big cans , you had to fill it with that molasses , and we had to pour this all over the grass and then , shorts , our shorts were cut off breeches you see because then we used to wear them first and we cut off them off to make shorts . |
| 25 | The farmer tapped out his pipe on the half door and began to fill it with black shag from a battered tin . |
| 26 | Her response to ‘ free ’ time is to fill it with more housework , and her housework ideals shape the way she brings up her children ( the insistence on not letting a messy three year old feed herself , for example ) . |
| 27 | Although Weinberger opposed it , he did not often do so with force : partly because , it seemed to him , nobody was foolish enough to propose it with much vehemence . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's a good idea to mix it with citric acid , ’ he said . |
| 29 | He refused to swap it with opposite number Willie Carne after the game because he had promised it to the Mirror . |
| 30 | aha , well I 'm , I 'm doing er couple of Oxos and I had to thicken it with some self raising flour , it was alright |