Example sentences of "[verb] down with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |
| 3 | So you sit down with The Hook and ask him about what it was like in the '60s in London , when he was lionised by Van Morrison , The Animals , Peter Green and all the gut-bucket R&B bands , but he just laughs and says it was fun . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Make tying laces into a great game : sit down with the shoes in front of you both and tie and untie them together . |
| 7 | ‘ We should get six top international players and a number of international referees and sit down with the law-makers so that all points of view are aired . ’ |
| 8 | 3 Push down with the hand on the elbow , forcing your fingers to travel further down your spine . |
| 9 | She finds time to sit down with the patient before she 's wheeled off to X-Ray , explaining exactly how the lung will be sealed off , that pain is inevitable and how it will be controlled . |
| 10 | Is to sit down with the estate agent and say , Right why have you got these business on . |
| 11 | Inside the sanctum , Miller was once made to sit down with the words ‘ Let me show you how a covert operation is set up . ’ |
| 12 | But Croat and Slovene leaders have reiterated their willingness to sit down with the Serbs and others to work out how Yugoslavia could be turned into a body not unlike the European Community . |
| 13 | You need to sit down with the practice manager or whomever and say right now you 've listed all these , why , what 's peculiar about what 's particular and peculiar about these that you should say that this is a good opportunity . |
| 14 | It 's to sit down with the practice manager and say right tell me about these businesses . |
| 15 | It 'll all be all right when the Vice President goes to Riyadh to sit down with the Iranians and they find out that our hostages come home , and the Ayatollah is either helping us in Central America or the contras . |
| 16 | As Bamber explains , such high expectations of the work , and an unrealistic idealism surrounding ‘ caring ’ and the medical model of illness , ‘ come crashing down with the reality of work experience ’ . |
| 17 | From this angle , stepping down with the altar candles behind him , his high shoulder and the bulge behind it scarcely broke the symmetry of a body beautifully compact and admirably handled . |
| 18 | There is one ray of hope — one member of the rescue team , himself an experienced caver , is a Casualty consultant from Suffolk who has volunteered to go down with the party to provide immediate medical assistance to the injured man . |
| 19 | Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and press down with the back of a metal spoon . |
| 20 | Tap down with the top of the formwork . |
| 21 | Lower the slab in place , then tap down with the handle of a club hammer . |
| 22 | She disappeared into their room , with some of the parcels , and Paul , weighed down with the rest , faced his landlady . |
| 23 | She was thinking of a bleak room in a small block of flats in Streatham , the curtains drawn to keep in the heat , the walls weighed down with the knick-knacks of a happy life : the flat she had been brought up in . |
| 24 | After more anxious discussion , the woman who had come down with the leaves , bony and greyish of skin with her hair wrapped in a yellow turban , poured half , then all the small bottle of gin into the steaming mixture and ceremoniously put it in the centre of the floor . |
| 25 | The idea was that the police would wait until they had incontrovertible evidence before moving in for the arrest , but Branson and Draper had barely sat down with the Clarkes before some forty policemen swarmed through the door , knocking over tables and chairs and arresting the two brothers . |
| 26 | He continued : ‘ In eight weeks of this dispute he [ Mr Clarke ] has not once sat down with the staff side of the ambulancemen . |
| 27 | where baby lies down with the tiger-rug |
| 28 | I 'm not saying they 'd have been sucked down with the yacht but they might have had a rather uncomfortable time . ’ |
| 29 | Slice fungi and fry down with the butter and onions until all the liquid has evaporated . |
| 30 | She had to chow down with the others in the common-room now she was mobile . |