Example sentences of "[adv prt] with the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asking the way down with the glory of sight restored would have been stupid in the extreme , and I gave secret thanks for my ego salvation . |
| 2 | Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office . |
| 3 | Tap down with the top of the formwork . |
| 4 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 5 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
| 7 | The entire high squadron went down with the exception of the leader . |
| 8 | The old object is too weighed down with the clutter of history . |
| 9 | Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and press down with the back of a metal spoon . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Lower the slab in place , then tap down with the handle of a club hammer . |
| 12 | Their weight is an advantage , as they almost level themselves , needing only the minimum of tapping down with the handle of a club hammer . |
| 13 | And I ai n't down with the Governor of California . ’ |
| 14 | Blake was thrown down with the force of the implosion . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Medium and long leys are put down with the object of increasing grassland production , extending the growing season and improving the nutritional quality of the herbage . |
| 17 | ‘ Down with the regime of killer warlords , ’ read one banner . |
| 18 | Next it is laid half way over the other petal and pressed down with the side of the finger . |
| 19 | When Nigel learned of their whereabouts , he began to hunt them down with the aid of his yeomen . |
| 20 | Morel died soon after , but not before he had the bitter pleasure of seeing the Labour Government brought down with the aid of a ‘ red scare ’ engineered , it appeared at the time , by Foreign Office officials . |
| 21 | ZEBRA Parallel , a start-up company based on Alvey research at the Polytechnic of Central London , is to be closed down with the loss of eight jobs . |
| 22 | In October 1881 fearful storms swept the coasts of Britain , and thirty-one fishing vessels from Eyemouth , near Berwick , went down with the loss of 129 lives . |
| 23 | The insolvency department has moved to Southampton based Lyon Pilcher , the Salisbury office is closing down with the loss of four jobs , and Gaynor Harris is back where she started with the Southampton practice ( to be known as Hook Harris ) which she has bought from the old partnership with Charles Bullworthy , with money borrowed from family and friends . |
| 24 | The AUT 's code is an implicit recognition of the right of university students to bed down with the partner of their choice . |
| 25 | The problem was finally solved by fixing a wire to my ankle and running it under the rock to an aqualunged diver , who on a signal from Stuart would tug on the wire and pull me down with the speed of an express lift , and would let go when my face turned blue . |
| 26 | But cold weather and a scarcity of food on arable land usually brings numbers down with the onset of winter . |
| 27 | There were incredible scenes with people shouting ‘ shame ’ and ‘ down with the empire of red fascism ’ . |
| 28 | During these past ten years , he had learned a great deal about his stepfather 's business ; not only did he trudge the streets collecting money , which he then took to the bank after it had been religiously recounted by Luther , but he was the one who made all the entries into the ledgers ; he was the one who always met with accountants and reported back to his stepfather , who constantly grumbled that he was ‘ too ill and racked with pain' to weigh himself down with the burden of meetings and ridiculous men in ridiculous suits , with their ridiculous ideas that a man should always invest the money he earns with the sweat of his brow … |
| 29 | The hospital management team for Claybury rejected the idea of the quadrant hospital concept , since this could not tie in with the principle of community care . |
| 30 | More recent extensions include office units built along with extra hardstanding , around 1980 , all of this blending in with the character of the remainder of the site . |