Example sentences of "[adv prt] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Asking the way down with the glory of sight restored would have been stupid in the extreme , and I gave secret thanks for my ego salvation . |
2 | Mrs Meek , of a Son' ’ ' , ‘ Lying Awake ’ , ‘ The Ghost of Art ’ ( clichés in painting ) , ‘ Out of Town ’ ( about ‘ Pavilionstone ’ [ Folkestone ] ) , ‘ Out of Season ’ , ‘ A Poor Man 's Tale of a Patent ’ , ‘ The Noble Savage ’ , ‘ A Flight ’ ( describing the journey from London to Paris ) , ‘ The Detective Police ’ , ‘ Three ‘ Detective' ’ Anecdotes ' , ‘ On Duty with Inspector Field ’ , ‘ Down with the Tide ’ , ‘ A Walk in a Workhouse ’ , ‘ Prince Bull . |
3 | " We can go up under Wandsworth Bridge as far as the Fina Oil Depot and then switch off and drift down with the tide . " |
4 | So , get yourself a crate of Dorksteiner lager , a gross of king size Rizlas , and settle down with the Rottweiler for an hour and a half of sub-MTV titillating trivia . |
5 | So , get yourself a crate of Dorksteiner lager , a gross of king size Rizlas , and settle down with the Rottweiler for an hour and a half of sub-MTV titillating trivia . |
6 | She disappeared into their room , with some of the parcels , and Paul , weighed down with the rest , faced his landlady . |
7 | Tap down with the top of the formwork . |
8 | One night when working on a fire at South Kensington , the pump was ticking over , I was waiting for orders : " Down with the pump , 60 lbs pressure " . |
9 | Forget the original lecture situation and sit down with the speaker to work out the best way of communicating his or her message on the video screen . |
10 | Its accountants sit down with the auditor for a day of conjuring tricks and , hey presto , £15m gets lost in a cloud of smoke , leaving a mere £7m to find . |
11 | Having gone down with the monarchy in the 1640s and learnt from that experience that its fortunes were closely dependent on those of the crown , the established church was more than ever determined to shore up the monarchy as a means of guaranteeing its own survival . |
12 | She wrenched the lid off the biscuit tin and tipped her mother 's letters into the range , stuffing them well down with the poker until there was nothing left of them but black ash . |
13 | I 'm not saying they 'd have been sucked down with the yacht but they might have had a rather uncomfortable time . ’ |
14 | After a pub lunch we did a bit outside the car-park mortuary and then settled down with the telephone to record some attempts to buy a coffin , one of which resulted in agreement , which was the last thing we needed at the time , although it came in very handy later . |
15 | A story has been passed down with the spoon to explain how it came to be repaired . |
16 | You know both sides were very happy you know it was up with the company or down with the company you know , and I think certainly the younger lads sort of saw it as an infringement upon their future , you know we 've all got mortgages and the o older men who 'd been working since the quarry started you know were gon na see a drop in their standard of living , so I think you know people were getting a bit upset you know that a n a new fella h a new face had come in , and all of a sudden you know changes were being made that were gon na hurt everybody financially . |
17 | The exact circumstances are forgotten , but I do remember serving as baby-sitter for the Menuhin infant while Papa Yehudi took his violin off to the concert , and I recall walking up and down with the child in my arms to keep it from crying . |
18 | Sadly the opposition have gone down with the flu . |
19 | so I take it he must of gone down with the flu after that then |
20 | Trollope nearly loses control on the subject of The Plumber , a man ‘ doubtless aware that he is odious … to be put down with the tax-gatherer as being as certain as fate and as inexorable . ’ |
21 | While the rate of management buyouts has slowed down with the recession those that were launched in Scotland had a good record of being completed . |
22 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
23 | We walk up the ramp and stand huddled and silent , bobbing up and down with the swell . |
24 | Maurice , in the way of business , knew too many , rather than too few , people , but when he imagined living without friends , he sat down with the whisky in the dark . |
25 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
26 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
27 | For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there . |
28 | Now she was a mother of five and the three young ones were all down with the fever . |
29 | We walked out on to the large veranda and sat down with the lagoon spread out below and in front of us . |
30 | The entire high squadron went down with the exception of the leader . |