Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] down with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrange these around the edge of the cake , sticking them down with dots of jam . |
| 2 | We have grown too good , kind and sensitive to mow them down with machine guns , starve them out of existence . |
| 3 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) in California , for instance , was once a naval air station , where in more innocent days the ground crews cleaned engines by hosing them down with carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethane ( TCE ) . |
| 4 | Well knock me down with a naked Klingon ! |
| 5 | ‘ Knock me down with a feather , to coin a phrase , ’ said Andrée , ‘ it 's his , it 's saintly Michel 's retreat . |
| 6 | Make the patchwork on the shells by spreading the glue over a small area , laying on scraps of cloth and pressing them down with the damp cloth . |
| 7 | On a tree-stump beside one cave-mouth , a raccoon sits swatting them down with its paw , munching the little bodies and discarding the skinny wings onto a growing pile on the ground beside it . |
| 8 | He drew her down with him on to it . |
| 9 | She wanted to pull him down with her . |
| 10 | James Shaw was given five years for his part in a later plot to kill Stephen Brown by knocking him down with a car . |
| 11 | Mandy either had not noticed the formidable wall of his reserve , or had decided to batter it down with her considerable charm . |
| 12 | Well , knock us down with a feather . |
| 13 | Tablecloths can be easily tugged off , so hold them down with double-sided tape or tuck the corners in . |
| 14 | ‘ Because it 's in Europe we think we can bring him down with all his works . |
| 15 | Freddie grabbed at his glass and took a quick swig of ale then put it down with a bang on the wooden table . |
| 16 | See just , she you said something about going in and ask her , and you said they put it down with that money that went missing and so they did n't put it down until paid it , but we did n't pay it . |
| 17 | No better still you bring it out here put it down with your name on it and er take whichever you want . |
| 18 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 19 | I stood in the middle of the road , conscious of my affrontery , flagging it down with a bundle of banknotes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Well when they dug the garden , after they 'd dug it they always cromed it down with a crome before they planted anything . |
| 22 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
| 24 | Well I can send it down with anybody . |
| 25 | Top the whole thing off with a dessert of chocolate mousse in strawberry sauce and wash it down with a Bordeaux red . |
| 26 | Because they 'll drown themself and bring you down with them . |
| 27 | At the end of the play , he takes a box full of sleeping pills and washes them down with wine — both pills and wine have been affectionately supplied by Trish . |
| 28 | Do n't run them down with bitchy comments behind their backs . |
| 29 | ‘ No , I 'll keep her down with me for the night . ’ |
| 30 | Then he hosed him down with warm water until all traces of the beck had been removed . |