Example sentences of "[adv prt] with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chairman , Chris Patten , will shortly sit down with the new head of the Downing Street policy unit , Sarah Hogg , to write the first draft of Mr Major 's manifesto . |
| 2 | That was a case , I worked in a hotel for years and years and it closed down with the new bypass and that , and just a girl beside me , she was coming for an interview , to the B M K and I came with her . |
| 3 | The slogans are just ‘ Vote for our party ’ or ( more often ) ‘ Down with the other party ’ . |
| 4 | Clark and Howey signed three-year contracts last month and Keegan said : ‘ We sat down with the two lads and their fathers and worked out a deal that was right for them . |
| 5 | Billy Corgan is down with the current spate of female bands ; he does n't begrudge them success and thinks groups like Babes in Toyland deserve their kudos . |
| 6 | I sat down with the Financial Times and tried to count how many people were actually smoking underneath no-smoking signs . |
| 7 | Also Simon is one of my best mates and I knew he 'd buckle down with the right team if he was in with a chance of winning . ’ |
| 8 | He put the phone down with the usual feeling of life at present , that he could strike forward forever and only land up farther behind . |
| 9 | Share his festive fare with your family , or treat them to Jill Goolden 's splendid New Year 's Eve party nibbles — all washed down with the best wines and cocktails . |
| 10 | A sole unit that blended good adhesion both uphill and down with the shock-absorbing characteristics of the chamfered heel of the K-SB3 was Berghaus 's Trionic , which appeared in late 1983 . |
| 11 | Ignoring her , he looked through a small pile of paperbacks on the bedside table then settled down with the latest Ken Follett . |
| 12 | When the last mince pie had gone and the last slice of plum pudding had been washed down with the last drop of Madeira , the children were sent up to recapture the sleep of which Father Christmas ' bounty had robbed them . |
| 13 | Ground beetles — normally fierce predators — often bed down with the same insects that they hunt in warmer seasons . |
| 14 | and down with the local tyrants , it 's down with the system as it stands or |
| 15 | They were now expected to settle down with the very people with whom they had been fighting and who had been responsible for killing some of their comrades-in-arms . |
| 16 | Make the patchwork on the shells by spreading the glue over a small area , laying on scraps of cloth and pressing them down with the damp cloth . |
| 17 | In improvising , a player can often create spontaneously something much superior to what can be written down with the crude approximation of notation . |
| 18 | I imagined Saad lying down with the English boy and the two of them flirting and giggling together . |
| 19 | Those who have worked with him during the time that he has been in his present post have come to admire the hard work , courage and assiduity with which he has pursued the object of bringing the parties within the island of Ireland to sit down with the British Government and resolve their differences . |
| 20 | Teaching art , thinking about , writing about , looking at art , with very little time for anything else , except the daily round , has meant that my visual faculties are numbed , rubbed down with the hard graft of making art a living . |
| 21 | ‘ Matilda is the late King 's daughter , Hugh , and we all took that oath to recognise her as the future queen after her brother went down with the White Ship , ’ protested the Prior . |
| 22 | He took in Marcus 's absence , went upstairs and came down with the pale boy behind him . |
| 23 | Confrontation with the United States was followed by the more dramatic confrontations with the French at Moruroa atoll where the goaded French beat up Greenpeace 's skipper , McTaggart , rammed a protest boat and eventually murdered a photographer who went down with the sabotaged Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour in July 1985 . |
| 24 | When that fury finally broke through , the hand of retribution would come down with the strongest power in the world behind it . |
| 25 | Erm he , he then goes on basically erm to talk about spreading political propaganda which was obviously very important to his cause erm an and he was saying that basically , you know , suddenly with the rise of er peasant associations erm everyone would , would say down with imperialism , down with the warlords , down with the corrupt officials erm , you know , and that these , you know , basically he , he 's then highlighting the fact that these political slogans have , have found erm have found , you know you know er importance with the , with the young the middle aged an and the old but basically obviously he 's , he 's trying to target the school because that 's where he 's hoping where the re revolution 'll start . |
| 26 | down with the corrupt officials |
| 27 | ‘ For the first time since the start of the recession , ’ said Mr Hayward we may be seeing some glimmer of light , particularly as the figures tie in with the slight decrease in receiverships this quarter and with recent reports of an increase in business optimism . |
| 28 | The dots are filled in with the appropriate names like this : |
| 29 | You may have a rough idea of where you are going and if it fits in with the cosmic blueprint , doors open easily . |
| 30 | ‘ To be honest I do n't think it fits in with the Irish way of things . |