Example sentences of "[adv prt] with [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And if I come down with a sore throat now , I 'll know who to blame . |
| 32 | The leaderene went down with a satisfying thump , her spiked coronet falling off . |
| 33 | Basically , I just sit down with a little Pignose amp and a tape recorder and play all night . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ all the witches dance here at midnight : and those who go may see their own ghosts walking up and down with a little Billet on the back , giving the names of those who had wished them there . |
| 35 | And I had to clean them and I had to get a bucket of water and sluice it down with a hard broom and . |
| 36 | Arlene looked her up and down with a practised eye . |
| 37 | Well knock me down with a naked Klingon ! |
| 38 | ‘ Yesterday morning , Doctor Livesey came down with a white flag . |
| 39 | On the third day out , Rachel went down with a high temperature and swellings in the groin . |
| 40 | Away he goes Lawrence again to the right-handed and that 's short on the back foot plays it down with a dead bat , ball bounces little more than a yard or two . |
| 41 | I then had to send Malcolm and Neil down with a rented truck to pick the machine up . |
| 42 | By then both men were heavy-legged and Mason 's inexperience at this level of boxing looked like becoming a decisive factor until he closed in and sent the American down with a short right to the temple and then a following left hook . |
| 43 | So it was then a question of just sitting down with a blank sheet of paper and starting to draw , because a Designer thinks about structures and design only by doing it , by drawing what 's in his mind . |
| 44 | Do you sit down with a blank sheet of paper and think ‘ I 'm going to write a poem on the subject of windows , or bible stories ’ ? |
| 45 | He felt his foot slip under him and sat down with a jarring shock , landing uncomfortably on a spanner and a piece of plastic tubing . |
| 46 | He poured himself another , swilled it down with a grim smile and cradled the empty wineglass in his hands . |
| 47 | It 's the time when the final pellets of vanity accumulate into a cyst , when the self starts up its last pathetic murmur of ‘ Remember me , remember me … ‘ ; it 's the time when the autobiographies get written , the last boasts are made , and the memories which no one else 's brain still holds are written down with a false idea of value . |
| 48 | Isambard caught up both , and stood for a moment staring down with a formidable frown at Harry , who nursed his bruised wrists and glared back , expecting a blow and tensing every muscle to receive it without a tremor . |
| 49 | As exhausted members gathered their breath after Brush 's super show the old maxim that an army marches on its stomach had not been forgotten and a superb hot supper was served , washed down with a lively cocktail of pints , shorts and anecdotes of events of old . |
| 50 | She had said there was less chance of being burdened down with a large brood and less risk of losing the husband to another woman . |
| 51 | A wipe down with a damp cloth is all that 's needed to keep them clean , and if they have a factory-finished polyester powder coating , they wo n't need to be redecorated for 15–20 years . |
| 52 | Wash down with a damp cloth — avoid using soaps . |
| 53 | You can choose between matt , satin or gloss finishes for the degree of shine you want , and can then merely wipe down with a damp cloth to keep clean . |
| 54 | Beyond the curtains , the rain came down with a sudden clatter on the roof of the Ropewalk below . |
| 55 | They had started with fichi con prosciutto , green figs with Parma ham , washed down with a light wine which Carlo had promised she would enjoy . |
| 56 | Along the South Coast , Meridian is playing things down with a ten-minute introduction to new faces and programmes followed by a movie . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | The slogans are just ‘ Vote for our party ’ or ( more often ) ‘ Down with the other party ’ . |
| 60 | 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 . |