Example sentences of "down [art] [adj] [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisa dived in hungrily , spreading butter and honey on a croissant , and reflecting as she washed down the first bite with coffee that it was even more delicious than it looked . |
| 2 | Over the rainbow with John McCarthy and Jill Morrell , sliding down the greasy pole with Alison Halford and fighting all the way with Barbara Castle . |
| 3 | Katherine put down the empty glass with a start , she had n't realized that she had been drinking . |
| 4 | Maman put down the loaded fork with a sigh and turned to Twomey at the sideboard : " Please give Miss Nicandra a clean plate and help her to some spinach . " |
| 5 | Plainly you can not apply that view to everything or the whole of your business is in a continuous state of stop/go , or like the good old Duke of York 's troops , marching up and down the same hill with monotonous regularity . |
| 6 | I went down the wrong route with the referrals and |
| 7 | By means best not mentioned I tracked down a living link with Martha . |
| 8 | We used to chase them down a narrow valley with a sheer cliff-wall at the end . ’ |
| 9 | To reach the glacier you have to walk through a tunnel , then down a narrow ridge with Death on one side and a very steep drop on the other . |
| 10 | The £1.2 million former Norwich star ca n't hold down a first-team spot with Scottish champs Rangers . |
| 11 | This stream passes down a wooded ravine with no access , steps having to be retraced to the Old Ing road . |
| 12 | He fought with the Eighth Army and was mentioned in dispatches when he shot down a German plane with a machine-gun he had captured from an Italian plane . |
| 13 | The hunter who strikes down a wild peccary with a blowgun dart is participating in only one aspect of this process , and the critical role is played by the ruwang . |
| 14 | For a soft effect , thin down an oil-based paint with spirits , and then apply your colour with a brush . |