Example sentences of "[vb past] down with a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Settled down with a cup of tea Robert explained how easy it was to roam the databases of Britain collecting details of people 's private lives . |
| 2 | And then Ratagan went down with a grypesh at his throat , and Riven forgot about hesitating . |
| 3 | I hit the gunman right between the windows of his soul and he went down with a lot of sparks and technoflash that I for one was n't expecting . |
| 4 | Went down with a bang over there . ’ |
| 5 | Karin went down with a group of 20 divers expecting to come across the usual remnants from ships like portholes and anchors . |
| 6 | So he staggered about ten yards and fell down with a moan on some pallets . |
| 7 | That evening Sid and I dined off piping hot oxtail soup , steak and kidney pie , followed by a very rich plum duff , all washed down with a bottle of French cider , given to us by the old Frenchman who lived in the cottage near the entrance to the orchard . |
| 8 | He had breakfasted lightly on Marmite and toast washed down with a pot of tea . |
| 9 | At bottom , this is the grip which the story of Jonah and the whale still has on us : fear of being devoured by a large creature , fear of being chomped , slurped , gargled , washed down with a draught of salt water and a school of anchovies as a chaser ; fear of being blinded , darkened , suffocated , drowned , hooded with blubber ; fear of sensory deprivation which we know drives people mad ; fear of being dead . |
| 10 | The delicious aroma of small deep-fried meatballs persuaded her to choose the frikadeller served with sweet and sour cucumber , red cabbage and crisply fried potato chips , washed down with a glass of ice-cold Danish beer . |
| 11 | She watched covertly as he sat down with a drink on the opposite side of the room from her and then proceeded carefully to avoid her eye , by turning to talk to the person seated on the sofa beside him . |
| 12 | Maxham removed an empty paint tin from the seat of the nearest armchair and sat down with a sigh of relief ‘ I 've got this verruca , ’ he confided . |
| 13 | Miss Jarman sat down with a thump in the matching wing chair on the other side of the fireplace . |
| 14 | Miranda shook her head , and Madame blew her disgust through her teeth , and sat down with a magazine with a cover picture of the future Queen Fabiola of Belgium smiling on the arm of her optician 's pin-up of a fiancé . |
| 15 | ‘ I think I 'm going to vomit , ’ she muttered to no one in particular , and sat down with a plop on a new imitation Italian chair , which received her with a reedy groan . |
| 16 | When she was dressed and ready to head for work , Alex sat down with a cup of coffee and thought once more about Matthew Prescott . |
| 17 | Then he sat down with a cup of coffee . |