Example sentences of "it with [verb] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | I took out my next to , next to , last but one Capstan , and lit it with trembling hands . |
| 5 | He took it with trembling hands . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ] . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Is that what you mix it with to get crack ? ’ |
| 11 | She normally does it with washing machines . |
| 12 | 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 . |