Example sentences of "had [verb] it with " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had once been a well , serving the monastery , but when the Red Guards had come they had filled it with broken statuary , almost to its rim , and now the water — channelled from the hills above by way of an underground stream — rose to the lip of the well . |
| 2 | His mouth felt dry , as if someone had filled it with sand . |
| 3 | It was if someone had filled it with sand . |
| 4 | Miss Menzies had filled it with petrol on the Friday afternoon and used it on the Monday morning . |
| 5 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 6 | A gentle breeze broke the absolute silence , moving the curtain so that he had to steady it with his hand . |
| 7 | She had given it with affection , but would have been forced — by custom , by law , and by John-William 's iron will — to give it anyway . |
| 8 | Was it because life itself is a battle and Hatton had waged it with unscrupulous weapons , winning rich spoils and falling as he marched home with a song on his lips ? |
| 9 | And the dear , good man had designed Almsmead , in the centre of a green field ; had surrounded it with a rose-garden ; given her apple trees and a lily-pond ; a trellised , covered walk down to the river with its clear , clean water in which she could see smooth pebbles and little silvery fishes instead of the slime and gas bubbles and dead cats one saw — if one had the stomach to look — in Frizingley 's canal . |
| 10 | He suffered defeat and banishment , but there were others who had to suffer it with him . |
| 11 | He remembered that Firelight had to feed it with milk , but where she kept it he had no idea . |
| 12 | The man 's face was a glistening red , as though he had smeared it with Vaseline . |
| 13 | Instead , they had fed it with the only food he knew . |
| 14 | He had done it with consummate aplomb . |
| 15 | The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams , and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome , silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary . |
| 16 | The murderer had done it with his bare hands . |
| 17 | The priest had done it with orders for the pile of stones to be pulled down . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Her dress had been made by a local dressmaker who had made it with a deep frill of black satin round the neck . |
| 20 | And when the snow thawed and took with it the paint they had daubed it with , he was out there picking off the remaining flakes of paint , and cursing with disappointment . |
| 21 | The previous type may then have become invalid , and coin users presumably had to replace it with the new one , a troublesome process , as the volume of some types ran into millions of coins . |
| 22 | Mrs Noah was the traditional peg-shape , as if that was the perfect , the only shape for a Mrs Noah and the maker had adopted it with relief after unsuccessfully trying out a hundred new variants of his own which had not done . |
| 23 | The Rectory , when she reached it ten minutes later , was as silent and calm as when she had visited it with the Archdeacon on Saturday evening . |
| 24 | She occasionally did style her hair that way and , since she had never so much as dreamt of meeting Ven when she 'd purchased her black dress , no one could suggest that she had bought it with him in mind . |
| 25 | He had not only preserved the room , he had cleaned it with meticulous care and provided fresh flowers in the little glass spill . |
| 26 | He had avoided it with all the fuss going on but wanted to see the Bookman once more before the expedition started . |
| 27 | The apartment itself was enormous and , as if she were scared of the space , Jane Pargeter had crammed it with expensive furniture . |
| 28 | It had been barely two years since she had opened it with the money her father had left her . |
| 29 | The boiler did n't fill automatic , you had you had to fill it with water . |
| 30 | With a great big cans , you had to fill it with that molasses , and we had to pour this all over the grass and then , shorts , our shorts were cut off breeches you see because then we used to wear them first and we cut off them off to make shorts . |