Example sentences of "[adv prt] with [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A revolt against the phallic mother may also explain the puzzling imagery of the cedar forest which Gilgamesh cuts down with such disastrous effect . |
| 2 | He reeled under the well-aimed punch , and then snaked an arm out to haul her over to his towel , pinning her down with one muscular leg . |
| 3 | On May 3rd the Israelis sat down with two Palestinian academics , Ahmed Khalidi from Britain and Camille Mansour from France , who belong to the diaspora of 4m or so Palestinians who live outside Israel and the occupied territories . |
| 4 | He did not acknowledge Conroy , but hurried on down with that glazed look of someone already encased in their next entrance . |
| 5 | An hour later , loaded down with awkward orange life-jackets , she trailed her cousin down to the beach . |
| 6 | So , at half-past five on Monday evening , George and Leon , edging their way round the matchboard door , found baps filled with fish paste and a nice square mottled chunk of bought cherry cake , washed down with deep orange-coloured Indian.tea , to nourish them . |
| 7 | For his part in the crime he was sentenced to ten years and went down with thirteen other accomplices for a total of fifty five years and £675,000 in fines . |
| 8 | Skylark-like song , including both frequent notes mimicked from other birds , and its own jangling corn-bunting-like ‘ kleetra ’ call note , uttered either in high wide circular song flight , or lower down with curious slow wing action , or even on ground . |
| 9 | STRATUS EXTENDS XA/R 80860 LINE UP , DOWN WITH NINE NEW MODELS |
| 10 | Place a piece of polyester drafting film , cut to a suitable size and leaving a generous margin , over the 0.1″ pitch grid on the light box , and tape it down with Scotch Magic Tape . |
| 11 | BELVILLE : [ angrily ] Pamela , pray sit down with these good neighbours . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Bring out the holes down with some new improved shit . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | But she came down with this dreadful flu bug , so she 's taken to her bed . ’ |
| 17 | Sometimes when in the evening I lie down with half closed eyes looking at the sunset , I see the screen of the eyelashes and its wonders . |
| 18 | and that fills in with five other things |
| 19 | They can succeed only if they fit in with similar international plans ; in the Netherlands ' case , with the standards agreed by the European Community to which it belongs , and that applies particularly to vehicles . |
| 20 | Lula and Claire were talking to her , a sort of duet : Lula was persuasive and chatty , Claire chimed in with sharp ideological comments or scornful snorts : hard cop , soft cop . |
| 21 | We were greeted with metaxa , the local brandy , and spent a wonderful evening sampling local cuisine and wines , watching and joining in with talented local dancers who wore full Cretan costume . |
| 22 | The week from Saturday 9th March to Friday 15th March will be ‘ Be A Sport For Comic Relief ’ week , and it would be rather nice if every town/area in the country where we have classes could put on an event tied in with good local media coverage ( advanced warning to newspapers & radio — they will have received national press releases and be anxious to get local news ) — a sponsored ball bounce is probably the easiest thing to organise , but please let us know your ideas . |
| 23 | Anyone who has done this will know the feeling of being cramped in with other tired people , strap-hanging , sweating after a day at work . |
| 24 | So we can put some limits on the project : the chairs must be upholstered ; modern in the simplicity of their lines but not ‘ Cubist ’ for want of a better term ; easy on the eye and bottom ; they should fit in with other existing furniture ; and naturally should be of strong construction so that they will be heirloom quality . |
| 25 | Likewise , if anthropologists used the word religion in the sense in which it is ordinarily used by ordinary speakers of English , where it is tied in with such compartmentalized matters as church membership and a professional priesthood , then it would have no application at all to most of the societies which anthropologists usually study . |
| 26 | I went to the er er fourteens and er I was there quite a while and er I , I got a booklet in with all different nationalities and er it said Welsh , Taffy , you see , Taffy is Welsh , up here , is a Welsh name . |
| 27 | He took us all in with one sombre glance . |
| 28 | Chesarynth hung back , not wanting him behind her , but he ushered her in with little shooing motions of his manicured hands and she had no choice . |
| 29 | He will have other reasons , quite apart from any strategy of the noble lie , for falling in with certain familiar practices that he might be tempted , at first look , to discard . |
| 30 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |