Example sentences of "[verb] it with [art] little [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She bore it with a little smile of amusement that began to enrage me .
2 The roundness of the pleat is improved by filling it with a little wadding or a tube of curtain buckram .
3 I found a photograph of Paul as a baby in one of the albums I kept in the loft , and after the ceremony I wrote the name of the new catapult on the back of the picture , scrunched it up around a steelie and secured it with a little tape , then went down , out of the loft and the house , into the chill drizzle of a new day .
4 Her argument was that it had offered the women of rock ‘ much worship with little esteem … choosing their image from among the already available fantasies and maybe undercutting it with a little irony . ’
5 He returned it with a little bow .
6 He began to whistle now , accompanying it with a little shuffle of his feet which brought a wide grin from Joe ; then becoming serious for a moment , he said , ‘ You knew , I do appreciate Martin getting leave to come home for my twenty-first .
7 He acknowledges her humiliation by jumping out of his side of the car , coming round to hers , opening the door for her and waiting ostentatiously for her awkwardly to tuck her legs inside before closing it with a little bow .
8 If you have the type of hair that can take it , try to leave hair to dry naturally , without heat , scrunching it with a little mousse .
9 Erm , the only time it was really good in my area was when Urban District Council did it with a little chap pushing a barrow and cutting the grass and it all looked absolutely beautiful .
10 All her family , like they all just drink tea with a very little drop of milk in it , and she always drank it with a little drop of milk , and then , she decided not to drink it with milk at all .
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