Example sentences of "[verb] down with [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Basically , I just sit down with a little Pignose amp and a tape recorder and play all night . ’
2 You know , my other two other branches were the same , I 'm doing a free appointment at , I 'm at at the moment , we 're supposed to get a two-weekly , when you do a free appointment , they 're supposed to sit down with every two weeks and tell you how you 're doing .
3 Is there a certain time when you always love to sit down with a relaxing drink and something to eat ?
4 Those who have worked with him during the time that he has been in his present post have come to admire the hard work , courage and assiduity with which he has pursued the object of bringing the parties within the island of Ireland to sit down with the British Government and resolve their differences .
5 These priorities are also reflected in the prescriptions for teacher education laid down with an increasing degree of firmness from the centre .
6 When father and son were alone David stood warming his hands at the brazier , and looking down with a clouded face into the red glow .
7 Beyond the curtains , the rain came down with a sudden clatter on the roof of the Ropewalk below .
8 ‘ Yesterday morning , Doctor Livesey came down with a white flag .
9 He took in Marcus 's absence , went upstairs and came down with the pale boy behind him .
10 Wash down with a damp cloth — avoid using soaps .
11 It 's the time when the final pellets of vanity accumulate into a cyst , when the self starts up its last pathetic murmur of ‘ Remember me , remember me … ‘ ; it 's the time when the autobiographies get written , the last boasts are made , and the memories which no one else 's brain still holds are written down with a false idea of value .
12 In improvising , a player can often create spontaneously something much superior to what can be written down with the crude approximation of notation .
13 I imagined Saad lying down with the English boy and the two of them flirting and giggling together .
14 Sniff , run down with a little milk for them . ’
15 You can choose between matt , satin or gloss finishes for the degree of shine you want , and can then merely wipe down with a damp cloth to keep clean .
16 A wipe down with a damp cloth is all that 's needed to keep them clean , and if they have a factory-finished polyester powder coating , they wo n't need to be redecorated for 15–20 years .
17 And all of this to be washed down with a late bar .
18 When the last mince pie had gone and the last slice of plum pudding had been washed down with the last drop of Madeira , the children were sent up to recapture the sleep of which Father Christmas ' bounty had robbed them .
19 Ground beetles — normally fierce predators — often bed down with the same insects that they hunt in warmer seasons .
20 Also Simon is one of my best mates and I knew he 'd buckle down with the right team if he was in with a chance of winning . ’
21 Isambard caught up both , and stood for a moment staring down with a formidable frown at Harry , who nursed his bruised wrists and glared back , expecting a blow and tensing every muscle to receive it without a tremor .
22 We settled down with a new bottle of champagne on the table before us , and I summarised what I had discovered about Brian Harley 's contract with Supersight and what I had not discovered about his putter .
23 However , I settled down with a new teacher for both piano and violin .
24 Ignoring her , he looked through a small pile of paperbacks on the bedside table then settled down with the latest Ken Follett .
25 These are visible by phase-contrast and polarization microscopy and occur in many Pterygote insects ; such layers are not found in Apterygotes and are laid down with an irregular rhythm in the Coleoptera .
26 Other ‘ Cambrian ’ news is that the new 158 set broke down with a flat battery on the morning of the 7th July and had to be substituted by a Class 150 Sprinter .
27 She was weighed down with a confusing mixture of feelings that sometimes felt so mellow and piquant , it was almost pleasant .
28 Give yourself time to settle down with a new program before you draw the conclusion that it is so buggy as to be unusable .
29 They were now expected to settle down with the very people with whom they had been fighting and who had been responsible for killing some of their comrades-in-arms .
30 The leaderene went down with a satisfying thump , her spiked coronet falling off .
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