Example sentences of "it with " in BNC.

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1 Between these two ridges the fire of the sunset falls along the trough of the sea , dyeing it with an awful but glorious light , the intense and lurid splendour which burns like gold , and bathes like blood .
2 It is relatively brief , as can be seen by comparing it with a more recent competitor for the same market , H. W. Janson 's A History of Art , which is more than twice the length and has more illustrations ( 928 in 1962 ) .
3 The ultimate synthesis of a design was never revealed in a flash ; rather he approached it with infinite precautions , stalking it , as it were , now from one point of view , now from another , and always in fear lest a premature definition might deprive it of something of its total complexity .
4 In truth , the camera is a ruthless editor of visual information ; this can be made plain by looking at a picture , say of the eighteenth century , and comparing it with a contemporary print , perhaps an aquatint , and a modern photograph .
5 His fortunes are those of a solitary who is due to return to his people and to chance it with them in a further foreign place .
6 Their elders make it upstairs in the flats , attended by small children — brothers and sisters who grow up in the Gorbals , Glasser says , to try it with each other .
7 ‘ She set higher store by emotional security ’ than her sister , ‘ and thought she would find it with a man soft-hearted and caring and pliant , far removed , as she thought , from father 's toughness and uncontrollability . ’
8 He too , dies the early death of romance — en poète , as the poet Burns put it with reference to his own fate — and his end is enveloped in the consequences of his supposing that he has lit upon some Chatterton manuscripts .
9 In the New Left Review , Benedict Anderson has made sharp criticisms of the work of the journalist and poet James Fenton which compare it with that of Kapuscinski and Naipaul .
10 Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination .
11 And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss .
12 Rita is a lively observer of her world , and describes it with vivid insight .
13 I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby .
14 One could try to approach it with the notion of spheres of competence .
15 Try it with grilled sea bass and fennel .
16 ‘ Parysatis did it with a chicken and I should have thought of it before . ’
17 ‘ Dorothy , I 'm trying to clear it with university administration that Paul should join our staff .
18 ‘ Chewing gum , ’ she informed Bridget , picking at it with her fingernails as she did so .
19 ‘ Have n't you got some of that special stuff you can freeze it with ? ’
20 Attacking it with a nailfile is the next best thing — hang on , I 'll show you . ’
21 Or , you can cover it with black plastic so that it rots down .
22 Just let anyone come near it with a sprayer !
23 Many spiraeas will be happy in partial shade , brightening it with their dense white blooms
24 Discuss it with other parents or schoolteachers if there seems to be a problem locally .
25 If you are n't happy with the service you 're getting from your GP , dentist or optician , then discuss it with them first .
26 When Sarah McCabe ( 1980 ) queried the logic of why just one police system should be entrusted with the control of crime , law , order , and social assistance , pointing out , ‘ there is some disagreement about the use of the criminal law — unease about control of the streets … [ which poses the question ] who will be controlled and [ who will be ] assisted ’ , she found the tenor of her ‘ thoughtful and moderate examination of the police role … was too much for the senior officers to whom it was presented , and they set out to discredit it with a will ’ ( Greenhill 1981 : 98 ) .
27 Do not confuse it with the head , for the latter can be struck harder and still score .
28 Really slam into the punch bag , hitting it with a constant barrage of punches as fast and as hard as you possibly can for no more than 15–20 seconds .
29 First this is held downwards , then it is swung upwards to varying heights so that you have a split second in which to hit it with a suitable technique .
30 When you have separated your knees as wide as possible , squeeze back against the applied pressure , resisting it with all your might .
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