Example sentences of "[to-vb] it with [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually the Jesuits were able to persuade the townspeople to rebuild the Gothic tower in Baroque style , but the Jesuits were forbidden to decorate it with Jesuit saints and they were forbidden to enter the tower from the church . |
| 2 | When we have a £6 million food and drink deficit , it is no use reducing Scottish production to replace it with cheap imports form eastern Europe . |
| 3 | Macca comes second and has the ability to do it with both feet ! |
| 4 | How we going to do it with these shoes on ? |
| 5 | I would like to fill it with herbaceous perennials , which would be suitable ? |
| 6 | Some of the tragic child-abuse cases publicly investigated in the 1970s and 1980s highlighted the need for schools both to record information about possible child abuse and to share it with other agencies . |
| 7 | In some cases the territory is so good it does n't matter that a female has to share it with other females . |
| 8 | Apart from the physical size of the fish , their territorial requirements make a large tank desirable , and essential if you are going to ask them to share it with other cichlids . |
| 9 | Here are all these computers producing huge amounts of information and completely unable to share it with other computers . |
| 10 | When the opportunity to acquire Mothercare arose , the Dutchman encouraged Conran to seize it with both hands . |
| 11 | He managed to grab it with both hands as the force of the water , aided by his frantic struggles , propelled him into the yawning mouth of the tunnel . |
| 12 | Experience was all , and I set out to grab it with both hands , drifting from country to country , from one relationship to another , a heedless , hedonistic round with never a thought for tomorrow . |
| 13 | ‘ I think Stan expected me to grab it with both hands and when I declined , he just sat there and could n't believe it . |
| 14 | I think Stan expected me to grab it with both hands . |
| 15 | If if a major proposal came along and the local authority wan district wanted to grasp it with both hands they could use the er existing erm development plan process to do so . |
| 16 | This pistol was so heavy that he could not , of course , stick it in his belt ; it was all he could do to lift it with both hands But he had been so enthusiastic about it that he had willingly gone through the laborious loading of its honeycomb of barrels , one after another , and now it was ready to wreak destruction . |
| 17 | Aunt Margaret poured fresh tea from a brown earthenware , Sunday-school treat pot that was so heavy she had to lift it with both hands . |
| 18 | Third , the Acropolis of Athens — a feature which , like some other masterpieces of nature or art , is so familiar that it is hard to see it with fresh eyes — was an inevitable centre for the rynoikism or concentration of Attica from a plurality of villages into a mia polis , ‘ one city ’ . |
| 19 | The best way to do this is to compare it with real paddlers . |
| 20 | And under the " public good " defence it may be relevant to the jury 's task of evaluating the merit of a particular book to compare it with other books of the same kind , and to hear expert evidence about the current climate of permissiveness in relation to this kind of literature . |
| 21 | The Milky Way , presumably a translation of Ludwig Kuhn 's earlier German text of 1978 , is an attempt to give an up-to-date view of the Galaxy and to compare it with other galaxies . |
| 22 | The local area , of course should be a springboard not a straitjacket , and pupils need to be encouraged to move out from their locality to see it in a wider context , to compare it with other places , and above all , whatever period is under study , to begin to understand why the changes they have documented took place . |
| 23 | To kill it with two blows is less meritorious ! ’ |
| 24 | To retain the support of the landowners , the regime continued throughout the 1950s to channel state funds into the agricultural sector and to support it with protectionist policies which merely sustained inefficiency and low productivity . |
| 25 | As many audiences and record collectors already know , he took lessons in conducting so that he might perform the work himself , and since his first concert in New York 's Lincoln Center , he has been invited to perform it with 20 orchestras around the world ( he will be conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall , London in November ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Eubank has never fought anyone of stature so it 's a straight forward fight for me , thanks for the chance and I fully intend to take it with both hands , ’ he said boldly . |
| 27 | Do I sometimes try to link it with similar materials , providing for experience of solving similar problems ? |
| 28 | Then a list of frames indexed by that theme noun is searched to associate it with any frames currently active ( i.e. , those indexed by previous theme nouns ) . |