Example sentences of "down with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set beside the works of Marquez et al , those of Angus Wilson must have looked distinctly unexotic , weighed down with sociological observation and liberal-humanist philosophising . |
| 2 | Releasing Isabel 's face , he stepped away from her , his hard eyes raking her up and down with casual appraisal . |
| 3 | Breakfast means making a manful start on the average per capita daily consumption of 9 lb of patisseries and 2 lb of butter , washed down with all the coffee produced by 1 lb of beans , sweetened with a truly papal ration of — yes , every day — 13 lb of sugar . |
| 4 | She had gone down with all hands in the North Atlantic . |
| 5 | This not merely scattered them but wreaked havoc on the transports which had got out of harbour ; 12 were sunk of which seven went down with all on board . |
| 6 | On Orkney 's west coast cliffs we filmed the memorial to Lord Kitchener and the men of the Hampshire which had struck a mine near the shore in 1916 and gone down with all but a handful of survivors ; in the Flow we spoke to divers still bringing up steel and copper from the Kaiser 's sunken High Seas Fleet ; and on the island of Lamb Holm on the eastern side we filmed a sequence of the little Catholic chapel , fashioned out of a Nissen hut by Italian prisoners-of-war who had built a causeway linking the islands after Prien 's successful foray in U.47 against the Royal Oak . |
| 7 | She put the thought down with all the other unpleasant thoughts she kept having and flew . |
| 8 | ‘ Because it 's in Europe we think we can bring him down with all his works . |
| 9 | The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength , and more strength he had just summoned , into the fish 's side just behind the great chest fill that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man 's chest . |
| 10 | You bring the log down with all your might . |
| 11 | A a apart from Chris and Bill , I 've sat down with all the M S fours an and been through the changes to the appointment contract , and how they now erm form the basis of the er interim client report . |
| 12 | She snaked her head forward and bit hard into his nose , biting down with all her strength , ignoring his shrieks of pain , trying not to gag on the blood that filled her mouth . |
| 13 | She was wearing a green school coat that was too big for her , so that her little pink hands stuck out all chubby from the sleeves , and she was weighed down with all sorts of rubbish — a shiny brown leather satchel , and a shoe-bag with a bunch of roses embroidered on it , and a hockey-stick . |
| 14 | I could have lost my rudder , burnt my boats , turned turtle in a sea of heartbreak or gone down with all hands . |
| 15 | John ignored the heat building up under his hands and pressed down with all his weight . |
| 16 | He was still by the bomb , whacking the sand with his plank , using both hands to hold it and bringing it down with all his strength , jumping up in the air at the same time and yelling . |
| 17 | Oh yeah , but we well she 's gon na change it , d' ya know when you update it you know they bring it back down with all the different words that , that 's being to the the , the , the , the dialect , not the dialect , the the vocabulary they , they 've , they 've got in America . |
| 18 | He moved down with sure , erotic touch to stroke the softness of her inner thighs and she stirred under him , her breath beginning to quicken . |
| 19 | Loaded down with non-performing assets , the banks have balked at new lending , which grew by just 1.1% over the 12 months to April , its slowest ever . |
| 20 | I mean what I 'll do is I 'll come and sit down with each of you and and we 'll |
| 21 | Flight graceful , rather slow , with the body appearing to move up and down with each rather exaggerated wing-beat ; may soar high . |
| 22 | The World Bank reckons that on most measures of welfare it ranks down with much of sub-Saharan Africa , and only a bit above Haiti . |
| 23 | Martin seems to be missing by a distance as we joust it round the table , so after half a dozen exchanges I go down with much confidence on a half-ball cut into the bottom left-hand pocket . |
| 24 | Or when I come down with psychosomatic diseases so that my wife babies me and Huxley and Hooker fight all my battles . |
| 25 | As Ann Butler led Sarah towards the stairs , to help her out of her wet clothes and rub her down with dry towels , Jonadab seized her hand in both his . |
| 26 | Down with Roast beef and two veg ! |
| 27 | Savour a ‘ Fiorentina ’ , a huge T-bone steak , washed down with ruby-red Chianti . |
| 28 | He set the phone down with exaggerated care . |
| 29 | When children came running to them for sweets , they scythed them down with automatic fire . |
| 30 | She began to wipe the tops down with unnecessary vigour , muttering crossly when water splashed on her dress . |