Example sentences of "[adv prt] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She spun round and brought one heel down with tremendous force onto his outstretched hand . |
| 32 | She had to restrain herself from slamming the receiver down with shameful violence . |
| 33 | Pornography means more than most people would have us believe , but the word has become so weighed down with negative associations that we tend to shy away from it . |
| 34 | Between two people one poncho was used as a groundsheet and the other was strung up and pinned down with home-made pegs . |
| 35 | Mizz Wilkes , eighty-something , said grace and we sat down , eight to a table , to tuck into some old-fashioned Southern cooking : fried chicken , gumbo , sweet potato , mashed potato , beef stew , cornbread , macaroni and every sort of vegetable , followed by banana pudding , all washed down with iced tea . |
| 36 | We washed this down with iced tea , which in the heat of a Texas summer tastes better than the best wine could . |
| 37 | Skylark-like song , including both frequent notes mimicked from other birds , and its own jangling corn-bunting-like ‘ kleetra ’ call note , uttered either in high wide circular song flight , or lower down with curious slow wing action , or even on ground . |
| 38 | Again , the Morant Bay rising in Jamaica in 1865 was put down with savage majesty by Governor Eyre — 600 men , women and children indiscriminately massacred , many more hundreds executed , and a thousand homes burned to the ground — as Eyre 's troops went on a three-week orgy of hanging , torture , flogging and rape . |
| 39 | The 1925 Druze rebellion in Lebanon and Syria was put down with great brutality and with the help of gangs of Armenian gunmen who had been armed by the French in order to attack the rebels . |
| 40 | It 's been one of the success stories of the last few years , managing to get through the culture barrier where the local authority thought a small unit was 15 or 20 people working down and the health service thought a small unit was 120 and worked down with great reluctance . |
| 41 | The rain was driving down with great force , swamping the dry ground , and within moments her hair was plastered flat against her cheeks . |
| 42 | At first the new mountains must have been worn down with great rapidity to produce the vast quantities of Neogene conglomerates . |
| 43 | Here Is a watercolourist who in " Walton , early morning " can approach the exquisite gentleness of Chinese work and then , in " Pennine landscape " can set down with masterful boldness the rugged majesty of moor and sky . |
| 44 | It was then seen to pitch up for several seconds and then pitch down with increasing engine noise . |
| 45 | Egyptian security forces have cracked down with increasing force on the group , and a week ago 23 people were killed a week ago when police stormed a mosque crowded with militants in Aswan and raided eight apartments in Cairo . |
| 46 | Finally I reached Maymyo , to find my family camping out in a very small house , all three children down with scarlet fever . |
| 47 | Next day we found a good army doctor who examined Rachel and said with care she would soon be well , the M & B had done its work , and then to add to our trouble you all went down with scarlet fever — caught on the boat I expect . |
| 48 | The meal then followed and all had their fill of sausage rolls and crisps , washed down with delicious barley water . |
| 49 | It is easier to keep them buried , push the feelings back down with stiffened muscles , joints and tension headaches . |
| 50 | He looked his offending offspring up and down with angry eyes . |
| 51 | Place a piece of polyester drafting film , cut to a suitable size and leaving a generous margin , over the 0.1″ pitch grid on the light box , and tape it down with Scotch Magic Tape . |
| 52 | The last coat is rubbed down with wet and dry paper and brought to a high gloss with a burnishing cream . |
| 53 | Many people want to help but just do n't want to be bogged down with wasteful committee meetings every week for years . |
| 54 | There is no potable water , except what you carry with you , and the equatorial sun beats down with fierce intensity . |
| 55 | A heavily embroidered Ixmarite flag hung virtually lifeless from a pole in the centre of the roof , weighed down with gold thread . |
| 56 | Do n't run them down with bitchy comments behind their backs . |
| 57 | The level of material is also hard to pin down with workable definitions . |
| 58 | He has played only a handful of games since breaking down with back trouble in St Lucia while touring his native West Indies with England in 1990 . |
| 59 | In Glasgow , Fazzi Brothers ' Caffe-Bar , adjoining the Cambridge Street branch of the family 's 70-year-old delicatessen business , fits in nicely with the Glaswegian notion of la dolce vita : sparky but unhurried conversation , compulsive people-watching , searching critiques of the nearby Sauchiehall Street shoe shops , and comparative study of each other 's purchases , all washed down with copious amounts of coffee and a plate of voluptuous cakes . |
| 60 | Joseph 's reforms led to peasant risings , which he put down with extreme brutality , and to conspiracies among the nobility . |