Example sentences of "it with [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a large predatory bird sits in a conspicuous position it may find itself being mobbed by smaller birds , which call , display , and even attempt to dive-bomb it with pecking attacks . |
| 2 | ‘ I enjoy X ’ entails ‘ In becoming aware of X I am drawn towards it , I approach it with sharpening awareness of it ’ . |
| 3 | The next question was invariably , ‘ What was it with regard to ? ’ |
| 4 | Jaques ( the ‘ Glacier investigations ’ ) found that even a well-defined role in the organisation posed problems for the person expected to fill it with regard to the exercise of authority . |
| 5 | The pastoralist who can control his aggression with regard to his animals has in his childhood first had to learn how to do it with regard to his excremental activities and the parental authority-figures who insisted . |
| 6 | Aggressive , aggression might be tied it with getting your own but being assertive is not about getting your own way . |
| 7 | Since then , critics of commercial pig farming have charged it with taking somewhat Stalinist counter measures : but now , in the era of glasnost , a more liberated future beckons . |
| 8 | But I do because I combine it with taking her [ the child ] for a walk . |
| 9 | Dreading to think what the stuff on her face might be , she clawed at it with trembling fingers , trying to interpret the strong odour in the turquoise air around her . |
| 10 | I took out my next to , next to , last but one Capstan , and lit it with trembling hands . |
| 11 | He took it with trembling hands . |
| 12 | You lift it with Had a a thing like that and a knob like this . |
| 13 | And you fill it with fill it . |
| 14 | When , when a we were discussing it with said to me oh you do n't believe in , he meant ah and I . |
| 15 | ‘ Ultimately , I do n't know whether I 'll make it with acting . |
| 16 | Extracting water from deeper aquifers involves drilling a well and lining it with slotted steel or PVC pipes surrounded by a packing of pea-sized gravel . |
| 17 | We bought it with to show oh you did n't get , it 's ever so good he got it out and he read most of it ever so well it 's lovely |
| 18 | The cotton-mill at Northampton was built about 1741 , the first to be driven by a water-wheel , and Yeoman was responsible for equipping it with spinning machines of a new type developed by Lewis Paul and John Wyatt [ qq.v . ] . |
| 19 | Even when , in 1978 , McLaren returned from Brazil with the news that Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs was now ‘ lead singer ’ of the Sex Pistols and someone McLaren earnestly claimed to be the missing Nazi war criminal Martin Bormann was the new bass-guitarist , Branson took it with disarming enthusiasm . |
| 20 | ‘ Because you associate it with depriving yourself , I think you 've got to drop the word ‘ diet ’ from your vocabulary . |
| 21 | He said his party would abolish mortgage interest relief and replace it with housing cost relief so that tenants as well as house owners could benefit . |
| 22 | Staff have formed a co-operative and hoped to buy the hostel and run it with backing from Durham County Council . |
| 23 | No we have we haven' we 're halfway through it with working out . |
| 24 | ‘ Is that what you mix it with to get crack ? ’ |
| 25 | We tried it with diesel no unleaded petrol we tried it with did n't work very well . |
| 26 | The problem is that , to speak of noise , to give it attributes , to claim things for it , is immediately to shackle it with meaning again , to make it part of culture . |
| 27 | She normally does it with washing machines . |
| 28 | But I did n't do it with dieting — it 's just that as you get older , and I 'm 62 now , you do n't need as much food . |
| 29 | You can then either hem and gather it with shirring tape before it is fixed to the walls ; or let it gather itself naturally as you push the rods through the turned-over hems at top and bottom . |