Example sentences of "down with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I imagined Saad lying down with the English boy and the two of them flirting and giggling together . |
| 2 | Lower the slab in place , then tap down with the handle of a club hammer . |
| 3 | Mr Dobbs , who is chairman of Telecottages UK , warns possible users not to get bogged down with the technology : ‘ The equipment is a tool to overcome what needs to be done . |
| 4 | ‘ Down with the regime of killer warlords , ’ read one banner . |
| 5 | The Smolensk open-air market was flooded in April with leaflets declaiming ‘ Down with the Yids — save Russia ! ’ |
| 6 | To get plant out of the pot , turn it upside down with the stem between your fingers and give the pot a gentle knock . |
| 7 | But cold weather and a scarcity of food on arable land usually brings numbers down with the onset of winter . |
| 8 | He continued : ‘ In eight weeks of this dispute he [ Mr Clarke ] has not once sat down with the staff side of the ambulancemen . |
| 9 | ‘ Down with the KGB ’ and ‘ Down with Ligachev ’ ( Yegor Ligachev , the conservatives ' leader on the party 's politburo ) were among the milder slogans carried by the demonstrators . |
| 10 | ZEBRA Parallel , a start-up company based on Alvey research at the Polytechnic of Central London , is to be closed down with the loss of eight jobs . |
| 11 | Earlier , Tanjug 's correspondent reported from Bucharest that armoured vehicles ran over students , while police turned automatic gunfire on crowds chanting ‘ Down with Ceausescu ’ and ‘ Down with the killers ’ during demonstrations that erupted at the government-organised rally in support of President Ceausescu . |
| 12 | Confrontation with the United States was followed by the more dramatic confrontations with the French at Moruroa atoll where the goaded French beat up Greenpeace 's skipper , McTaggart , rammed a protest boat and eventually murdered a photographer who went down with the sabotaged Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour in July 1985 . |
| 13 | Allow the flames to die down with the pan off the heat . |
| 14 | Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and press down with the back of a metal spoon . |
| 15 | But Croat and Slovene leaders have reiterated their willingness to sit down with the Serbs and others to work out how Yugoslavia could be turned into a body not unlike the European Community . |
| 16 | The chairman , Chris Patten , will shortly sit down with the new head of the Downing Street policy unit , Sarah Hogg , to write the first draft of Mr Major 's manifesto . |
| 17 | Trollope nearly loses control on the subject of The Plumber , a man ‘ doubtless aware that he is odious … to be put down with the tax-gatherer as being as certain as fate and as inexorable . ’ |
| 18 | She finds time to sit down with the patient before she 's wheeled off to X-Ray , explaining exactly how the lung will be sealed off , that pain is inevitable and how it will be controlled . |
| 19 | Unhinged in her mind when her fiancé went down with the Wessex , poor dear . ’ |
| 20 | In October 1881 fearful storms swept the coasts of Britain , and thirty-one fishing vessels from Eyemouth , near Berwick , went down with the loss of 129 lives . |
| 21 | It 'll all be all right when the Vice President goes to Riyadh to sit down with the Iranians and they find out that our hostages come home , and the Ayatollah is either helping us in Central America or the contras . |
| 22 | Inside the sanctum , Miller was once made to sit down with the words ‘ Let me show you how a covert operation is set up . ’ |
| 23 | Waving Bosnian flags and portraits of the late Yugoslav communist leader , Marshal Tito , a large crowd of miners still in work clothes chanted : ‘ Down with the murderers ! |
| 24 | Down with the people who would kill Bosnia ! ’ |
| 25 | The slogans are just ‘ Vote for our party ’ or ( more often ) ‘ Down with the other party ’ . |
| 26 | After more anxious discussion , the woman who had come down with the leaves , bony and greyish of skin with her hair wrapped in a yellow turban , poured half , then all the small bottle of gin into the steaming mixture and ceremoniously put it in the centre of the floor . |
| 27 | Down with the family ! |
| 28 | The old object is too weighed down with the clutter of history . |
| 29 | Medium and long leys are put down with the object of increasing grassland production , extending the growing season and improving the nutritional quality of the herbage . |
| 30 | Asking the way down with the glory of sight restored would have been stupid in the extreme , and I gave secret thanks for my ego salvation . |