Example sentences of "he [vb past] it with the " in BNC.
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1 | He got it with the cruel bonus of a broken jaw but took Tyson the distance . |
2 | He stroked it with the side of the whisky glass , smiled , drank . |
3 | He compared it with the scheme 30 years ago when Britain built tall chimneys to disperse pollution over a wide area . |
4 | He secured it with the safety-pin . |
5 | He followed it with the endearing Doorway ( Severe ) a year later . |
6 | Eventually MacPhie found he could break the spell of the magic thread if he cut it with the woman 's magic hatchet . |
7 | He employed it with the subtlety of a knuckle-duster . |
8 | The exception is a Scottish pig farmer who stands uneasily next to the carcass of Jamie , a pig he reluctantly slaughtered and to which he was so attached he credited it with the IQ of a three-year-old child . |
9 | He lit it with the air of a man considering big moves in the Irish tobacco market . |
10 | He did it with the back bumper of the car . |
11 | The young man — not a man at all , in fact , but a boy dressed like a man , bearing himself like a man — made a strange gesture : holding one hand at head-height , he struck it with the other , palm against palm , a glancing blow . |
12 | He bandaged it with the remaining strip of cloth . |
13 | It had originally been called The Rest Cure but Eliot discovered that the title had already been used and , after some hesitation , he replaced it with The Elder Statesman . |
14 | Kurt Masur conducted one of the finest ‘ live ’ performances of this piece I have ever heard when he conducted it with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Nottingham during an English tour a few years ago . |