Example sentences of "[adv prt] with the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I sat down with the Financial Times and tried to count how many people were actually smoking underneath no-smoking signs .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Ground beetles — normally fierce predators — often bed down with the same insects that they hunt in warmer seasons .
6 and down with the local tyrants , it 's down with the system as it stands or
7 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 .
8 down with the corrupt officials
9 The dots are filled in with the appropriate names like this :
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 His underwear will be perfectly all right in with the other clothes .
14 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 .
15 ‘ If you can do that , then you have in your mind what the strong target notes are and you can start going in with the other notes of the scale .
16 The nature of Wakelate 's business necessitated that he and his wife should blend in with the other guests .
17 Then she discarded that , too , and left Corrie 's side for the first time to join in with the other children .
18 And Pilger , an exasperatingly prickly individualist determined to expose the ills of the world , stubbornly refused to lower his standards and fit in with the new requirements .
19 Two of the five vessels being built for Olsen are designed to comply with this legislation , and this , says Parker , will give it a proven ability to fit in with the new requirements .
20 We 've plunged in with the practical details rather than training itself .
21 How does ‘ Here I Am ’ fit in with the present changes in education ?
22 Parents and teachers usually judge children 's behaviour by whether it fits in with the usual standards — moral , emotional , social and intellectual — set by the society in which they live .
23 Herbs distributed about the garden mixed in with the general plantings will often supply that " surprise " quality that the old garden-landscape designers insisted on , as an aroma wafts through the air on a hot sunny day , or when a plant is brushed accidentally so that a spicy smell comes apparently out of nowhere .
24 Seeing the poverty around him while he was growing up , he joined in with the political groups agitating for social change .
25 The detailed character of financial , administrative and legal restraints imposed by Whitehall may change but the general effect remains the same — local councillors are expected to fit in with the political priorities of the government of the day .
26 Miracles are supposed to fit in with the unscientific views of the ancients , but not with out own scientific views .
27 I think they do to a certain extent , but the teachers try and erm brush it away , they try and forget that they are soldiers ' children and try and help them mix in with the civilian children .
28 For example , he was working out the exposition of the melodic cells which are the basis of most of the movement , so that his use of contradicting notes had to fit in with the melodic intervals , which were probably his primary concern .
29 When they are in moult they often sit ashore on the rocks , when their dark brown plumage blends in with the dark rocks .
30 Back from Cuba , his belief in non-violence now a fading memory , he fell in with the dope-smoking radicals of the key young radical movement , Students for a Democratic Society .
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