Example sentences of "[verb] down with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit down with Paul Franklin every now and then and we swap licks — just basically show each other what we know . |
| 2 | The new arrangements should provide more occasions when mental health workers sit down with individuals to discuss their care in a structured way . |
| 3 | When you sit down with Tony , punch in your code word , he 'll punch in his , and you 'll retrieve the data we loaded in . |
| 4 | Can you two go and sit down with daddy please cos this is getting silly . |
| 5 | Go and sit down with daddy please . |
| 6 | This is when it is good to sit down with pen and paper and analyse why we are jealous . |
| 7 | Another recurrent crisis , during university years , was the cerebral accident — a subarachnoid haemorrhage unambiguous enough for me to sit down with pen and I paper and put my affairs in order . |
| 8 | It would be much more constructive for a consortium of donors to sit down with governments and review their need for aid finance over , say , the next three-year period . |
| 9 | When you have understood the gist of this and talked to your inner teacher about what you need as an individual , you will be able to sit down with paper and write your own script . |
| 10 | So , let me , Simon , when we get back to , to your division we 've really got to sit down with Graham and Peter now and erm , get it as part of their work to produce . |
| 11 | Diplow Hall , with ‘ its fine elms and beeches , its lilied pond and grassy acres specked with deer ’ , is another idyll until the reader sits down with Grandcourt at his breakfast table . |
| 12 | They 're done because the old-fashioned way of doing a , putting something together is a paste-up job , you 've got all these stories filed about all sorts of things , and then some editorial chap or chapess sits down with sort of paste and scissors and cuts the things off , and they tend to cut things off the bottom to make it all fit until it feels about right . |
| 13 | Swings often start by touching down with drift in a cross wind and it is worth remembering that , from the point of view of avoiding a bad swing into wind , it is better to overdo the drift correction . |
| 14 | Aldaniti had broken down with leg trouble , and his trainer Josh Gifford thought his career was over . |
| 15 | ‘ A couple have broken down with back injuries and never fully reestablished themselves . |
| 16 | In general , digestion slows down with age , and food is not absorbed so efficiently . |
| 17 | We 'll need somewhere dry to spend the night if we 're not to go down with pneumonia . |
| 18 | Ted sank down with relief into a chair . |
| 19 | And Christophe , keep to keep up his research , could make no concessions for a cameraman weighed down with 40kg of gear . |
| 20 | It was a programme about the ( then ) proposed orbital cities , and even boasted an interview with a very youthful Ewan Famber , who had just passed out from the Tech-Green High College weighed down with honours and acclamations . |
| 21 | Miss Fergusson , umbrella aloft and pistol at her belt led the way with the certain tread of the righteous ; Miss Logan , dangling her bag of lemons , struggled to keep up as the terrain grew more precipitous ; their Kurdish guide , weighed down with baggage , brought up the rear . |
| 22 | Mrs Parkin described how children were coming to the school weighed down with tins of food . |
| 23 | Whose history , weighed down with guilt and machines , |
| 24 | They stood in two rows , hooked up to the static lines , weighed down with parachutes and air tanks , waterproofed combat kits , clutching personal inflatable rafts attached with five metres of line to their belts , eyes tense behind the vizors of the face masks . |
| 25 | I saw the major-domo turn away a couple weighed down with medal ribbons and jewels , while admitting a fat young man in a greasy fez and ragged robe . |
| 26 | ‘ Mattresses ’ formed by bundles of brushwood are being sunk , weighed down with rock , to stabilise river beds and protect banks from erosion . |
| 27 | When Aisha returned from work , coming through the door weighed down with plastic carrier bags , her coat smelling of perfume mixed with cigarette smoke , I gave a shiver of anger : I wanted to carry shopping bags like that and wear a coat like hers ! |
| 28 | Roy Hattersley is to stand down with Mr Kinnock . |
| 29 | A great remedy in croup for sensitive children who have been exposed to cold air or dry cold winds and have come down with croup the following morning ( see also Aconite and Spongia particularly ) ; worse ( < ) morning and evening . |
| 30 | Erm so , so I mean and then , you know , he describes various examples where you know if you get hit by your best mate you basically , you know , instead of telling him to F off you say down with imperialism type of thing . |