Example sentences of "it [adv] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Perhaps they had not cleared it properly with the Romanians . |
| 4 | Make a custard in the ordinary way , but add 1 cupful of fresh marigold petals , beaten , to 600ml/1 pint/2½ cups of milk and heat it gently with the remainder of the custard ingredients . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | The document says it is impossible not to notice how society , for the most part , makes human sexuality banal , since it interprets it in a reduced and impoverished way , ‘ connecting it only with the body and egoistic pleasure ’ . |
| 7 | Unable to say anything , I held out the book in my shaking hand , holding it only with the tips of my fingers . |
| 8 | And it might go away if he did n't listen keenly , feed it perhaps with the energy of his life , stoke it up with risks to his health and even to his sanity . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Although it is of course true that people can be greatly helped by having the opportunity to talk about their impending loss , ( both their worries about it and their wish to talk about it together with the person who is dying ) this must be when the time feels right for the people involved and not when the helper , professional or lay , deems it appropriate . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyway , the printing works and the business associated with it together with the residue of the estate after discharge of all debts and liabilities are left jointly to Beryl and Francis . |
| 12 | Put it together with the talk after the first battle , and add to it the understanding of the ark as the throne of God , as the visible guarantee of God 's presence with his people , the symbol of his covenant relationship with them , as their wedding ring , we might say , and you have then something to explain the consternation of Eli and the wife of Phinehas . |
| 13 | The old farmer 's daughter had donated it together with the notebook the farmer ( and his father before him ) had kept of his sales and receipts . |
| 14 | Well she thoroughly enjoyed the life , in fact right up , oh till nearly the end she spoke about Pharay and as long as she was able she used to go and she imagined she could see it better with the spy glasses . |
| 15 | There are some who never come to our House of Prayer for various reasons — prayer is not important in their lives , work or social life is more important , people who feel that they can go it alone with no need for God , others who feel that life is too full to have time for God , some who think that religion is a waste of time , and there are people , both young and old , who are intimidated by their friends . |
| 16 | A plump old man sitting in a wooden scaffold on a marine building site sawed the top off an immense teak column to make it flush with the decking . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He licked it away with a flick of his tongue , sucking and swallowing . |
| 20 | Rob the Grinder ‘ ran sniggering off to get change and tossed it away with a pieman ’ , DS 38 . |
| 21 | However carefully he spoke , he still released a little dribble from the stiff site of his mouth and wiped it away with a routine gesture of his left hand . |
| 22 | He wiped it away with the edge of his sleeve . |
| 23 | The Bill gives protection with one hand and takes it away with the other . |
| 24 | The spent kick slaps down near your leading foot and you hook it away with the crook of your ankle . |
| 25 | Miss Clinton had taken it away with the wheel still loose and would soon be driving northward over a narrow moorland road that a few miles beyond the road-bridge over the river wound along the shelf of a mountain with a sheer , dizzy drop on one side . |
| 26 | There was blood all over the windows , too , and Magee had to wipe it away with the sleeve of his coat in order to see through the windscreen . |
| 27 | They lashed alongside and they lowered the stuff right onto the onto the coble To start with we rowed it ashore with a couple or oars or maybe four oars and took off the cattle and that the same way just . |
| 28 | They led nowhere yet , except to fantasy in which Gwen Evans held a crow-bar to Mary 's head and Alice Fernie struck it home with a sledge-hammer while Mary , unheeding , watched the television . |
| 29 | ‘ If I managed to get it home with the help of a cabbie we must be able to move it between the two of us . |
| 30 | He put out his hand towards her , but she waved it aside with a flick of her own , saying , ‘ Look , we both know what it 's like down there , do n't we ? |