Example sentences of "down with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loss of the aerodynamic download normally provided by the horizontal tail surfaces in cruising flight caused the aircraft to pitch rapidly nose down with no possibility of recovery from the ensuing dive . |
| 2 | There are many lessons to be learnt from accounts of buildings knocked down with no care for wall paintings and historic artifacts , and certainly no interest in their architectural importance . |
| 3 | He gulped the syllable , taking it down with a swallow of air . |
| 4 | She felt sick again , and sat down with a plonk . |
| 5 | If the organizer calls ‘ submarines ’ everyone lies down with a leg in the air . |
| 6 | That evening Sid and I dined off piping hot oxtail soup , steak and kidney pie , followed by a very rich plum duff , all washed down with a bottle of French cider , given to us by the old Frenchman who lived in the cottage near the entrance to the orchard . |
| 7 | This was all washed down with a bottle of red wine . |
| 8 | Washed down with a bottle of Riesling Schonenbourg — Tim 's choice from the Orient Express menu . |
| 9 | The Conservatives had clearly let the economy overheat for electoral advantage in 1955 , but as soon as the election was over , clamped down with a credit squeeze and requests to trim expenditure below the agreed levels . |
| 10 | And sat wearily down with a grunt and a frown |
| 11 | I took him down with a shell , and he flew to pieces . |
| 12 | Sit down with a pen and paper and make a list of the things you have wanted to do in the past few years . |
| 13 | Then he sat down with a thump , his legs sticking straight out in front of him . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , whatever was that ? ’ she used to cry , sitting down with a thump on anything that was handy , whenever one of them exploded within hearing . |
| 15 | Miss Jarman sat down with a thump in the matching wing chair on the other side of the fireplace . |
| 16 | More usually , they come down with a thump a yard or so away . |
| 17 | Meredith sat down with a thump . |
| 18 | You could have knocked me down with a kiwi fruit . |
| 19 | A spearman tried to bring him down with a lance thrust under the cuirass whilst another took a swing with a sword at the joints in the greaves on his legs . |
| 20 | He laid the diagram out on the desk-top , weighting each corner down with a pile of papers . |
| 21 | I stood in the middle of the road , conscious of my affrontery , flagging it down with a bundle of banknotes . |
| 22 | She glared at him as she set the glass down with a clatter . |
| 23 | He looked down with a smile . |
| 24 | Pile up all the layers of seaweed in the same way as you would ordinary pressed material ( see p. 38 ) and leave them overnight , lightly weighted down with a couple of books . |
| 25 | The lights are kept down with a couple of bricks . |
| 26 | I too , was listening to radio 5 on Saturday and was utterly devastated to hear that we 'd gone 1–0 down with a couple of minutes to go , but at 2.7 million Deano saved the day . |
| 27 | Yes because it 's not the like that underneath , if they did n't pull it apart they , they cut down , if they cut down with a knife they could cut into something could n't they ? |
| 28 | They , they did n't pull it apart they , they cut down if they cut down with a knife then they could cut into something could n't they ? |
| 29 | Mostyn reacted , and brought the sumpsucker with the shotgun down with a burst of fire . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm telling you , ’ she said , ‘ when I heard that big clock in the hall striking the five , you could 've knocked me down with a feather ! |