Example sentences of "[adv prt] with [art] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He jumps up and down with a vague look of aggression on his face , puts his hand on his hips and shows us his pot belly . |
| 2 | She forced herself to eat some more dry biscuits and chocolate , washing them down with a small amount of water . |
| 3 | Fending him off with his left arm Chief Fyvie knocked the man down with a tremendous blow of his right fist . |
| 4 | She was weighed down with a confusing mixture of feelings that sometimes felt so mellow and piquant , it was almost pleasant . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the winter he had gone down with a slight burst of influenza and anyone would have thought it was the plague . |
| 7 | So it was then a question of just sitting down with a blank sheet of paper and starting to draw , because a Designer thinks about structures and design only by doing it , by drawing what 's in his mind . |
| 8 | Do you sit down with a blank sheet of paper and think ‘ I 'm going to write a poem on the subject of windows , or bible stories ’ ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As exhausted members gathered their breath after Brush 's super show the old maxim that an army marches on its stomach had not been forgotten and a superb hot supper was served , washed down with a lively cocktail of pints , shorts and anecdotes of events of old . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Billy Corgan is down with the current spate of female bands ; he does n't begrudge them success and thinks groups like Babes in Toyland deserve their kudos . |
| 13 | He put the phone down with the usual feeling of life at present , that he could strike forward forever and only land up farther behind . |
| 14 | A sole unit that blended good adhesion both uphill and down with the shock-absorbing characteristics of the chamfered heel of the K-SB3 was Berghaus 's Trionic , which appeared in late 1983 . |
| 15 | In improvising , a player can often create spontaneously something much superior to what can be written down with the crude approximation of notation . |
| 16 | Teaching art , thinking about , writing about , looking at art , with very little time for anything else , except the daily round , has meant that my visual faculties are numbed , rubbed down with the hard graft of making art a living . |
| 17 | These priorities are also reflected in the prescriptions for teacher education laid down with an increasing degree of firmness from the centre . |
| 18 | If you 're looking at her and she 's battered about the face and all that then initially it appears more credible than someone who comes in with no visible signs of injury . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's really no need for you to go , ’ Rory cut in with a slight trace of desperation . |
| 20 | Leicester are in with a strong chance of the play-offs and will be keen to avenge a 3–0 early-season defeat at Ayresome Park . |
| 21 | Anytime a westerly or south-westerly wind is blowing , for example , means you must be in with a good chance of making a catch , even if other conditions are not equally as good . |
| 22 | Assuming the Boss and Big Boss can score a few wounds you are in with a good chance of winning the combat . |
| 23 | McHale said McGee was in with a good chance of starting against Halifax because he can play in defence or midfield . |
| 24 | ONE OF Britain 's most successful offshore construction yards is in with a good chance of winning a major order that could secure its future for a year . |
| 25 | First , you 've frantically found your seat , strapped yourself in with a metallic click of the belt and are sitting bolt upright and trying to remember the air crash fatality statistics when — ooh , thank you , sweeties in a basket from a nice person — there 's a touch of human contact in a high-tech , high-octane toothpaste tube . |
| 26 | In football , although the team lost the national league final they are in with a reasonable chance of retaining the All Ireland cup . |
| 27 | The State regards itself as threatened by Counter-revolution ; its apparatus of power is theoreti cally entitled to employ all means at its disposal ; the great leader person ally authorises the use of force ( and who dares contradict him ? ) ; the army and security forces lumber in with a grotesque over-use of fire power — in this case including heli copters — and within minutes there are bodies in the streets . |
| 28 | ‘ Then when Warnaeera and Muralidaran got New Zealand out for 102 , we knew we were in with a great chance of beating them . ’ |
| 29 | The Old Loughtonians ' ground , in Chigwell , is one of eight regional qualifying venues for the re-jigged county championships and Woodward believes Essex are in with a great chance of winning through to Cannock . |
| 30 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |