Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] it [adv prt] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you have no faith in the power of the economy and want to prop it up with the crutches of the rotten police regime . |
| 2 | When he did n't reply she felt something bad approaching and tried to ward it off with an apology . |
| 3 | I carried my bewilderment into the coffee shop and tried to drown it along with the froth of my cappuccino . |
| 4 | Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade . |
| 5 | Annie weed down her leg and started to wipe it up with her hands . |
| 6 | Someone spills the maple syrup , and tries to mop it up with another table 's tablecloth . |
| 7 | And then , suddenly , she sees Dieter going off on his own , and decides to have it out with him . |
| 8 | When it fails to rise to the occasion , I no longer get rattled and threaten to chop it off with a pair of barber 's scissors , tie it up in a sack and drop it down a deep , dark well . |