Example sentences of "[verb] on it with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three black youths with huge , multicoloured knitted caps pulled over their dreadlocks like tea-cosies lean against the plateglass window of the shopping-precinct cafe , drumming a reggae beat on it with their finger-tips until shooed away by the manageress . |
| 2 | The mental strain of trying to concentrate on it with small children is considerable , and so is the physical strain of getting it all home . |
| 3 | She banged on it with her free hand and it was opened by Higgins . |
| 4 | The door was shut and he banged on it with his knuckles two or three times before he heard a movement inside and the door opened . |
| 5 | Yesterday they played on it with delirious joy . |
| 6 | You elected to become the mistress of a poverty-stricken lecturer of nonsense ; you have made your bed ; lie on it with him , as you have chosen to do . ’ |
| 7 | The walls and ceilings were all painted the same insipid magnolia and there was rush matting on the floor which trapped bits of food and stuff and hurt if you walked on it with bare feet . |
| 8 | The Chinese rug in the centre of the hall showed no blemish — until he walked on it with his muddy brogues . |
| 9 | If he had n't provoked the argument then he had certainly seized on it with relish . |
| 10 | And he went on gazing out of the window , drawing on it with his finger until Mrs Hollins came out and rapped on the glass . |
| 11 | Its thirteen powerful dorsal spines contain enough poison to kill any human swimmer who accidentally treads on it with a bare foot . |
| 12 | For this reason , the seventeenth century looked on it with varying degrees of embarrassed caution and suspicion . |
| 13 | She did n't exactly throw herself against the door , but she began to beat on it with her fists . |
| 14 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 15 | Well I remember at that time the steam roller that was just doing the road outside Tormore House and many 's the day I was trying to get on it with a very good friend of ours that 's now dead . |
| 16 | The clerk hammered on it with the pommel of his dagger . |
| 17 | She moved the chair and leaned on it with one hand . |
| 18 | A huge head it had on it with rows of teeth and this long sleek green body with all the fins sort of pushed down towards the tail to give it speed in the water I suppose . |
| 19 | But it was one thing to tell myself that and another to act on it with any conviction . |
| 20 | Always inspect each hook closely before you use it ; test it for breaking or bending ; reduce or remove the barb where necessary , and work on it with a fine oil stone until it is as sharp as you can get it — this should not actually be necessary with the new chemically sharpened hooks . |
| 21 | He made the mistake of turning round , stumbled and fell on one knee and then rose , sobbing in terror as he clawed his way to the main gate , hammering on it with all his might . |
| 22 | It fell on the floor and rolled towards Uncle Mick 's feet — and he promptly stood on it with all his forty-year police authority and his size ten boots . |
| 23 | Having dragged it over , she stood on it with care , and found it brought her eyes level with the frieze . |
| 24 | He pulled out the pouffe and sat on it with them propped on his knees . |
| 25 | He sat on it with the two little girls and gave them a big smile . |
| 26 | Kirstein wanted to see the ballet in preparation before confirming the commission , so John began working on it with dancers of Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet , including Miller as the heroine . |
| 27 | Most people agreed that Pike had been out the night before working on it with an industrial fan . |
| 28 | Additional handles can be added to the second frame simply by clicking on it with the mouse and these are then dragged to re-shape the boundary . |