Example sentences of "it [adv] with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a shower she put it on with a frown , worried that it really was going to live up to her expectations , teamed up with seamed black tights and her new black slingback shoes . |
| 2 | We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd really like a smoke first , ’ I croaked , laying it on with a trowel . |
| 4 | He was a nice man , and she quite liked him , but where Ven 's charm came naturally , Lubor was laying it on with a trowel . |
| 5 | You might try it on with a girl in the park who turns out to be a policewoman in disguise . |
| 6 | Thin and you just stick it on with a glue . |
| 7 | He took hold of her hands now and his voice was gentle as he said , ‘ Yes , but by all accounts she 's paid for it since with a man like your father . ’ |
| 8 | If hesitating between a peach and a pear you languidly inspect sniff and fondle the fruit before deciding for the pear , and eat it slowly with a look of bliss , no one who has left behind the absolutism of childhood ( ‘ Anyone can see that a peach is nicer than a pear ’ ) will doubt that you made the best possible choice between the flavours ; the rightness of the choice , and the objective fact that in the fullest awareness of the two flavours you were spontaneously moved to take the pear , are two sides of the same coin . |
| 9 | Or was it only with a view to inspiring a love of virtue that he read ‘ Abou Ben Adhem ’ and how he ‘ loved his fellow men . ’ |
| 10 | By contrast requiring a case to be stated , just like the appeal by way of case stated from a decision of a magistrates ' court or the Crown Court described in chapter 7 , obliges the tribunal to set out its decision and the reasons for it together with a formulation of the questions to be considered by the High Court . |
| 11 | She wedged it in with a spud , with a potato |
| 12 | Alec pulled it in with a boathook , and got it on deck with some difficulty . |
| 13 | and they just drop it in with a clamp and it gets sh shoved in and then another bloke just connects all the wires up |
| 14 | Eddie splashed more of the liquid against his temples , brushing it back and then rubbing it in with a comb . |
| 15 | I gave it a coat yesterday morning and then it hardened up and I rubbed it down with a bit of fine wire wool today |
| 16 | I stood in the middle of the road , conscious of my affrontery , flagging it down with a bundle of banknotes . |
| 17 | He gulped the syllable , taking it down with a swallow of air . |
| 18 | Top the whole thing off with a dessert of chocolate mousse in strawberry sauce and wash it down with a Bordeaux red . |
| 19 | Darius grabs a wedge , ices it with half an inch of butter , crams it in his mouth and washes it down with a can of Coke . |
| 20 | She raised it high in the air and brought it down with a crash right on the top of the wretched Bruce Bogtrotter 's head and pieces flew all over the platform . |
| 21 | Freddie grabbed at his glass and took a quick swig of ale then put it down with a bang on the wooden table . |
| 22 | Jackson made his final attempt with the tea , then set it down with a grimace of distaste . |
| 23 | Well when they dug the garden , after they 'd dug it they always cromed it down with a crome before they planted anything . |
| 24 | Pete went to the refrigerator , took out a beer , and then carried it along with a kitchen chair out onto the porch . |
| 25 | I was sweating , you could imagine thinking God we 're going to have to take the wheels off and drag it through with a tractor or something like that on skids , cos we needed the van for Monday and there was n't going to be a lot of t But then suddenly yes a again I suddenly th |
| 26 | you cut it through with a knife |
| 27 | Instead , they want to steamroller it through with a guillotine , and will not entertain common-sense discussion . |
| 28 | If they 've been changing the pipes or digging them up or something they often flush it through with a load of chlorine , the water of or b Boil it erm As water get 's hotter , and something like sugar , would you get would you find , Let's say you get a cup of cold water and you try and dissolve as much sugar as you can in it , and then you try hot water , try disolv |
| 29 | ALL parents of four-year-olds know what strong-minded little monsters they can be — but we decided to risk it anyway with a trip to Val d'Isere . |
| 30 | This technique involves spreading out the pastel dust with a tissue as an exceptionally thin film into which delicate variations can then be introduced , either by dabbing on more dust , perhaps of different colours , or by lifting it away with a putty eraser . |