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 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 .
5 I sat down with the Financial Times and tried to count how many people were actually smoking underneath no-smoking signs .
6 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 . ’
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 and down with the local tyrants , it 's down with the system as it stands or
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 In improvising , a player can often create spontaneously something much superior to what can be written down with the crude approximation of notation .
13 I imagined Saad lying down with the English boy and the two of them flirting and giggling together .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 ‘ 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 .
17 He took in Marcus 's absence , went upstairs and came down with the pale boy behind him .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 down with the corrupt officials
21 ‘ 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 .
22 The dots are filled in with the appropriate names like this :
23 You may have a rough idea of where you are going and if it fits in with the cosmic blueprint , doors open easily .
24 ‘ To be honest I do n't think it fits in with the Irish way of things .
25 In his 1959 essay " The English School in a Democracy " Bateson outlines the characteristics of the kind of trained mind he envisages , which seem to fit in with the mental attitudes and orientations most suited to the democratic process .
26 I stopped at a pub I used rarely near the BBC and had a ploughman 's and a couple of orange juices , no alcohol , partly because I wanted to keep a clear head and partly to fit in with the cab-driver persona .
27 Animals may avoid being eaten by active flight , as do moths escaping from bats ; by camouflage , which requires behavioural adaptations to fit in with the visual markings ; by warning coloration , to teach predators to avoid sickening prey ; by mimicry of successfully warning-coloured species ; or by aggregation in groups , such as the schools of fish .
28 The notion of a routine , of a particular time for meals , baths , bed for young children — to fit in with the other interests and commitments of parents working outside the home — is not especially important .
29 His underwear will be perfectly all right in with the other clothes .
30 The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land .
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