Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | One entire wall was constructed as a glass cliff down which fell a waterfall some six feet wide ; the pool into which it tumbled smoked with spray and the whole effect was disconcerting , as of some plumbing disaster on a majestic scale . |
| 2 | In Better Schools ( 1985 ) the government singled out ‘ peace studies ’ for criticism , saying that it had no place on the school curriculum because it failed to deal with certain issues in a balanced and objective manner . |
| 3 | It may in perfect good faith have misconstrued the provisions giving it power to act so that it failed to deal with the question remitted to it and decided some question which was not remitted to it . |
| 4 | One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ? |
| 5 | Microsoft Corp got a bloody nose when it went head-to-head with Novell Inc and challenged NetWare with LAN Manager , and what it failed to achieve with a full frontal attack , it is now trying to secure by stealth . |
| 6 | Really really what has it got to do with our clients ? |
| 7 | Its sluices could be used to flood the whole area if it became infested with invading forces . |
| 8 | It became entwined with the separate dispute with ASLEF over flexible rostering , which the board had announced would be introduced from July with or without agreement . |
| 9 | Police sealed off the road to the cliff top when it became jammed with traffic and ordered a helicopter to circle the wreck to deter looters . |
| 10 | As new crust emerged at mid-oceanic ridges , they suggested , it became magnetized with the polarity of the prevailing magnetic field ( Fig. 2.13 ) . |
| 11 | The cave was formed some time during the early part of the Pleistocene , over one million years ago , and it became filled with sediment during the middle Pleistocene approximately 350 to 400 thousand years ago . |
| 12 | The black cat spread all over Europe until , in medieval times , it became associated with black magic and sorcery . |
| 13 | The plant , a hardy perennial of the campion family , comes from eastern Russia originally but around the 16th century it became associated with the City of Bristol . |
| 14 | The common use of the rose in heraldry illustrates how deeply and firmly it became associated with and identified as a symbol of family arms and crest , class and dynasty . |
| 15 | ‘ Only with Bodo , ’ Herr Nordern swore as he pulled his shirt off and it became entangled with his vest . |
| 16 | It became mingled with the tales of a folk who lived in the east of your world ; they called it Adam 's Paradise . ’ |
| 17 | It made coping with locally severe unemployment difficult , since only the resources of the rate-paying parishioners could be drawn on . |
| 18 | She made several ‘ women 's ’ films for Rank , including STREET CORNER ( 1953 ) about the women police in Chelsea , which she always cited as a particularly enjoyable experience since it involved working with a mainly female crew and cast . |
| 19 | He had partly explained why he needed her help , how it involved complying with the terms of his uncle 's will , although he had n't admitted yet why he needed the money so desperately . |
| 20 | The Labour Party was well aware of the limited challenge of British fascism and could discriminate between the threat it posed compared with the more serious threat of European fascism . |
| 21 | It promised to consult with Israel during Middle Eastern emergencies in order to determine the degree of assistance that could be offered : ‘ the U.S. government will make every effort to be fully responsive … on an ongoing and long term basis to Israel 's military equipment and other defense requirements , to its energy requirements and other economic needs . ’ |
| 22 | There is now a wide variety of special hardware and software for handicapped people , much of it designed to work with the BBC , Archimedes and IBM PC-compatible computers commonly used in schools , though it is equally applicable to adults . |
| 23 | This was the third Cabinet change since September [ see pp. 37702-03 ] and was thought to reflect growing tensions within the government as it tried to cope with military setbacks in the current civil war , an economic crisis and mounting social unrest , especially in the capital Mogadishu [ see pp. 37767-68 ] . |
| 24 | It came to rest with corpses of slow woolly mammoths frozen deep inside , it lay on the bones of sabre-toothed tigers . |
| 25 | It seemed filled with people — officers , clerks , a constable . |
| 26 | It seemed filled with red jelly . |
| 27 | Incredibly enough , it seemed to end with a choice . |
| 28 | The horse screamed as the bullet scored its neck , and it seemed to leap with its hindlegs , making the rear a mighty buck that shipped the rider off and into the shallows of the lake . |
| 29 | It was difficult to make out the essential nature of the girl : it seemed to change with the time of day , the season . |
| 30 | It seemed to work with the Div 4 winner on 129 plus 5 . |