Example sentences of "[adv prt] with [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was wearing a green school coat that was too big for her , so that her little pink hands stuck out all chubby from the sleeves , and she was weighed down with all sorts of rubbish — a shiny brown leather satchel , and a shoe-bag with a bunch of roses embroidered on it , and a hockey-stick . |
| 2 | She had gone down with all hands in the North Atlantic . |
| 3 | I could have lost my rudder , burnt my boats , turned turtle in a sea of heartbreak or gone down with all hands . |
| 4 | Loaded down with non-performing assets , the banks have balked at new lending , which grew by just 1.1% over the 12 months to April , its slowest ever . |
| 5 | Or when I come down with psychosomatic diseases so that my wife babies me and Huxley and Hooker fight all my battles . |
| 6 | As Ann Butler led Sarah towards the stairs , to help her out of her wet clothes and rub her down with dry towels , Jonadab seized her hand in both his . |
| 7 | With four minutes of the first half left , disaster struck for City within the space of two minutes as they suddenly found themselves four one down with two penalties in quick succession . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | Her greatest luxury in life was to sit down with baked beans on toast and watch television . |
| 10 | Tie the aircraft down with fixed pickets — concrete blocks and flimsy corkscrew pickets do not make it in the tiedown stakes . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been home — got lots of grief about not being settled down with fourteen children — ’ |
| 12 | Many of these people were able to escape before the town was overwhelmed , but about 2,000 died ; some because they elected to remain in what they thought was the safety of their houses , some because they left their escape until it was too late , some because they were too burdened down with prized possessions to move quickly enough , and some because they were just plain unlucky . |
| 13 | Walterkin moved away and sat down with raised knees . |
| 14 | Pornography means more than most people would have us believe , but the word has become so weighed down with negative associations that we tend to shy away from it . |
| 15 | Between two people one poncho was used as a groundsheet and the other was strung up and pinned down with home-made pegs . |
| 16 | The pilot vessel Hadrian towed a dive support vessel safely back into South Shields yesterday after it broke down with four divers on board . |
| 17 | He led the Open at Muirfield by four shots and eventually came from two down with four holes to play to beat John Cook . |
| 18 | SIX years ago Francis Emeruwa launched a promising career when he scrummed down with four Wasps colleagues in the London Division pack against the All Blacks . |
| 19 | To go one down with nine minutes remaining and with only 10 men , we were up against it . ’ |
| 20 | The price of organic food can only come down with bigger subsidies to organic farmers . |
| 21 | Up to then he had never been in front — he was three down with 11 holes to play — but he went one up at the 17th the second time around . |
| 22 | The next morning , Aj had said , he 'd be down with six tons of red shale and then the real work would begin . |
| 23 | She ate it in her hand and washed it down with several glasses of Tizer . |
| 24 | It is easier to keep them buried , push the feelings back down with stiffened muscles , joints and tension headaches . |
| 25 | He looked his offending offspring up and down with angry eyes . |
| 26 | Tie Gulliver down with these ropes . |
| 27 | Do n't run them down with bitchy comments behind their backs . |
| 28 | The level of material is also hard to pin down with workable definitions . |
| 29 | In Glasgow , Fazzi Brothers ' Caffe-Bar , adjoining the Cambridge Street branch of the family 's 70-year-old delicatessen business , fits in nicely with the Glaswegian notion of la dolce vita : sparky but unhurried conversation , compulsive people-watching , searching critiques of the nearby Sauchiehall Street shoe shops , and comparative study of each other 's purchases , all washed down with copious amounts of coffee and a plate of voluptuous cakes . |
| 30 | I was in a car with my wife-to-be and we turned on the radio ( I turned on the radio really — My wife could n't care if Leeds went bankrupt tomorrow ) to find out that Leeds were 3–0 down with 15 minutes to go . |