Example sentences of "[vb pp] down with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He a attended courses , and on a couple of occasions he 'd travelled down with another officer to collect prisoners . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When he had broached the subject — tentatively — he had been turned down with surprising sharpness . |
| 6 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 7 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | All this was washed down with unlimited quantities of wine , beer , porter and champagne . |
| 10 | At first the new mountains must have been worn down with great rapidity to produce the vast quantities of Neogene conglomerates . |
| 11 | Many people want to help but just do n't want to be bogged down with wasteful committee meetings every week for years . |
| 12 | Yeah , the buyer 's guide but let's not get bogged down with this , this is n't the problem something we have to do . |
| 13 | Between two people one poncho was used as a groundsheet and the other was strung up and pinned down with home-made pegs . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been home — got lots of grief about not being settled down with fourteen children — ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These boroughs , like the London borough of Newham , are weighed down with more than their fair share of problems . |
| 18 | Lucy slept after the first few hours , and woke with a start from a nightmare where she was being chased and her feet were weighed down with heavy , heavy shoes . |
| 19 | The good primary school , in encouraging children to use documents , to dramatise in the classroom , to get the children into the experience of people living in another age , in many ways come close to what the university historian is doing than some of the secondary erm school histories , which are still weighed down with this content . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been hosed down with cold water while standing naked in the snow , ’ said one man . |
| 22 | She had gone down with all hands in the North Atlantic . |
| 23 | On Orkney 's west coast cliffs we filmed the memorial to Lord Kitchener and the men of the Hampshire which had struck a mine near the shore in 1916 and gone down with all but a handful of survivors ; in the Flow we spoke to divers still bringing up steel and copper from the Kaiser 's sunken High Seas Fleet ; and on the island of Lamb Holm on the eastern side we filmed a sequence of the little Catholic chapel , fashioned out of a Nissen hut by Italian prisoners-of-war who had built a causeway linking the islands after Prien 's successful foray in U.47 against the Royal Oak . |
| 24 | I could have lost my rudder , burnt my boats , turned turtle in a sea of heartbreak or gone down with all hands . |
| 25 | Now the arcade will be knocked down with sheltered homes for the elderly built on the site . |
| 26 | Again , the Morant Bay rising in Jamaica in 1865 was put down with savage majesty by Governor Eyre — 600 men , women and children indiscriminately massacred , many more hundreds executed , and a thousand homes burned to the ground — as Eyre 's troops went on a three-week orgy of hanging , torture , flogging and rape . |
| 27 | The 1925 Druze rebellion in Lebanon and Syria was put down with great brutality and with the help of gangs of Armenian gunmen who had been armed by the French in order to attack the rebels . |
| 28 | Dancing had been suggested but it would have bust the spell , and moves by Mallachy and Rory to get them off alone were put down with spiteful glee , accepted with good humour . |
| 29 | The last coat is rubbed down with wet and dry paper and brought to a high gloss with a burnishing cream . |
| 30 | Bare wood should be rubbed down with fine grade abrasive paper , working along the grain , and the dust removed with a cloth moistened with white spirit |