Example sentences of "do it with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He had done it with consummate aplomb . |
2 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
3 | I 've done it with other women . |
4 | Yes , I 've done the mandate workshop , yes , and I 've done it with other groups too . |
5 | Somehow a favourite dress or toy of Paige 's would be damaged , but she had done it with such guile that her parents could never be sure it was intentional . |
6 | Have you noticed I 've done it with Loving Care ? |
7 | They 've done it with real people ? |
8 | I 'd have done it with minimalist technology ; say , beans swelling in water and lifting a diaphragm and bare wire to a contact for the time-fuse . |
9 | ‘ You can do it with golden syrup tins , ’ Gaily said , ‘ easier than with coconuts . |
10 | They got ta do it with one hand in their pocket . |
11 | Do I do it with that pencil thing of yours or with er Amber Clean |
12 | You could do it with two rulers could n't you . |
13 | encouraged or put under pressure erm , I would think that with a lot more talking we might actually be able to work out something between surrogate mothers and nurturing mothers , they can do it with open adoption , other countries were learning how to do it . |
14 | Word reached Peter Wheeler , the Leicester coach , of a young lad at Wakefield , a full-back , a slick-running full-back at that , who not only could kerplonk the ball like a metronome between the posts but could do it with either foot . |
15 | I am not for one moment suggesting that you could do such a thing yourself because I think you would do it with more style and use a magnum of champagne . |
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 | Macca comes second and has the ability to do it with both feet ! |
20 | How we going to do it with these shoes on ? |
21 | But we 'll have to do it with cold water and the yard broom . ’ |
22 | They 're certainly not doing it with other men ( only 3.6 per cent claim to have had homosexual intercourse ) , so can we presume yet again that men just like to say they do it more often . |
23 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
24 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
25 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with great reluctance . |
26 | Clare told me he 'd taken rather a lot of convincing — once he 'd determined to do the slightly naff champagne-pyramid stunt in the first place — not to try doing it with proper champagne flutes but to use the perry glasses like everybody else did ; too tall , too unstable otherwise . |
27 | There are different ways of doing it with different people erm who do share it . |
28 | We did it with Dangerous Lady , too , which was an amazing success for us last year [ it sold some 130,000 copies ] . |
29 | And if you did it with real panache , and with a sense of luxury , it was called Gran Turismo . |
30 | It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ? |