Example sentences of "[verb] down with [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | BELVILLE : [ angrily ] Pamela , pray sit down with these good neighbours . |
| 2 | The cherry and whites were just two points short of victory at Leicester last saturday … they fought back from ten points down with 13 men … |
| 3 | Her greatest luxury in life was to sit down with baked beans on toast and watch television . |
| 4 | So what happened is that the literate women arranged their time so that every day they now have an hour set by to sit down with one of the illiterates and that 's how the literacy campaign is operating at the moment . |
| 5 | Those are the first ones you contact but you still have to sit down with one of the estate agents and say , Well look what sort of business do you give them ? |
| 6 | shareholding in National Power and PowerGen and instruct the chief executives to sit down with British Coal and negotiate a mutually beneficial contract from 1993 . |
| 7 | My staff and I welcome the opportunity to sit down with local exporters and importers to offer not only our own expertise but to provide the link to the truly international help that is available . |
| 8 | It is easier to keep them buried , push the feelings back down with stiffened muscles , joints and tension headaches . |
| 9 | The British Defence White Paper of 1958 laid down with surprising confidence the circumstances in which it would unleash nuclear weapons : ‘ It must be well understood that if Russia were to launch a major attack , even with conventional weapons only , the West would have to hit back with strategic nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 10 | Also , if the wheel brake is of the type that is applied automatically with full airbrake , remember that you should avoid touching down with full airbrake . |
| 11 | As a result of nail sickness , the heavy Westmorland slates were regularly coming loose and crashing down with such force that they sliced through the lead gutters below . |
| 12 | He a attended courses , and on a couple of occasions he 'd travelled down with another officer to collect prisoners . |
| 13 | Rub down with abrasive paper then degrease the surface with white spirit . |
| 14 | Egyptian security forces have cracked down with increasing force on the group , and a week ago 23 people were killed a week ago when police stormed a mosque crowded with militants in Aswan and raided eight apartments in Cairo . |
| 15 | The rain was driving down with great force , swamping the dry ground , and within moments her hair was plastered flat against her cheeks . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A heavily embroidered Ixmarite flag hung virtually lifeless from a pole in the centre of the roof , weighed down with gold thread . |
| 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 | Erm he 's just come down with this rotten old cough and cold again and I was going to take him to the doctor 's but then they do n't like it giving them anything and I do n't like giving him anything so |
| 20 | There is no potable water , except what you carry with you , and the equatorial sun beats down with fierce intensity . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was then seen to pitch up for several seconds and then pitch down with increasing engine noise . |
| 23 | She came down with this summer flu everyone 's getting and went home before I got in . |
| 24 | But she came down with this dreadful flu bug , so she 's taken to her bed . ’ |
| 25 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 26 | Now that we could relax a bit , we began to realise just how tired we all were and many girls came down with minor ailments , such as skin rashes and tonsilitis . |
| 27 | When he had broached the subject — tentatively — he had been turned down with surprising sharpness . |
| 28 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 29 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 30 | Skill is demonstrated by persistent and efficient pursuit of an objective and the skill can usually be understood although not necessarily written down with any great precision in terms of a goal and the path towards that goal . |