Example sentences of "it [adv prt] with [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , a graphic series of pictures I 'm viewing of Koons getting it on with his 35-year-old fiancé are being made into paintings , sculpture and have even inspired a film . |
| 2 | The converted midfield player marked his 25th birthday with the 51st-minute opener and Robert Lee rubbed it in with his first League goal for Newcastle six minutes later after Peacock 's penalty had been beaten out by Perry Suckling . |
| 3 | Robert Lee rubbed it in with his first League goal for Newcastle six minutes later after Peacock 's penalty had been beaten out by Perry Suckling . |
| 4 | After Christmas he had wanted to arrange for the marriage to take place straight away , before he could change his mind , but it was difficult to fit it in with his new duties as a Governor of the Foundling Hospital which required him to spend one day a week in town . |
| 5 | And a superb move there — see how he swept it in with his left foot . |
| 6 | Mandy either had not noticed the formidable wall of his reserve , or had decided to batter it down with her considerable charm . |
| 7 | Once , desperate for a full night 's sleep , he had accepted her offer of a Valium , sluicing it down with his usual nightcap , and moved about the next morning like a diver walking on the seabed . |
| 8 | It has not been possible to exempt her from a third politics module , 7605 , but rather than delay her Stage II entry it has been agreed that she may ‘ trail ’ it in that stage , i.e. she will include it along with her advanced modules as 1 of the 2 basic modules which may also be counted . |
| 9 | When Muriel did n't get the job she 'd hoped for she talked it over with her present boss . |
| 10 | If only because he did n't have it to give — he 'd sent it off with his first letter . |
| 11 | Shuddering , I flicked it off with my lathered razor . |
| 12 | She plumped it up with her thin hands and held it out invitingly . |
| 13 | Bees collect nectar as well as pollen , sucking it up with their long tubular mouthparts and carrying it back within their stomachs to their nest , there to store it in their combs as honey . |
| 14 | You then pick it up with your left hand and pretend to put it into your right . |
| 15 | The rejection of the original bill was criticized strongly by Vaclav Klaus , the Czech Prime Minister and leader of the Civic Democratic Party ( ODS ) , who had drawn it up with his Slovak counterpart and leader of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ) , Vladimir Meciar [ see pp. 39061-62 ] . |
| 16 | Mr Nikiforuk finds medical history funny , but not quite funny enough ; so he peps it up with his own very special kind of wince-making metaphors and similes . |
| 17 | So then I checked it out with my common sense which said , ‘ Stay away , it will end in tears . ’ |
| 18 | I have heard reports that it can be glimpsed in binoculars , but even with my × 20 I have been unable to find it — though it is clear enough in a 15-cm reflecting telescope , and I can just make it out with my 7.6-cm refractor . |
| 19 | You build up a frightening picture of an immensely long , empty passage of time , only to cancel it out with your last breath , leaving your audience thoroughly confused , but clinging to the idea that eternity is ‘ like ’ a great length of time . ’ |