Example sentences of "[adv prt] with a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He jumps up and down with a vague look of aggression on his face , puts his hand on his hips and shows us his pot belly . |
| 2 | Having said that , if you weigh only 60 kg ( 132 lb ) and yet still manage to sit your 90 kg ( 198 lb ) opponent down with a solid thump to his mid-section , then the refereeing panel may well applaud your fervour with a full point . |
| 3 | She forced herself to eat some more dry biscuits and chocolate , washing them down with a small amount of water . |
| 4 | Fending him off with his left arm Chief Fyvie knocked the man down with a tremendous blow of his right fist . |
| 5 | Sniff , run down with a little milk for them . ’ |
| 6 | She was weighed down with a confusing mixture of feelings that sometimes felt so mellow and piquant , it was almost pleasant . |
| 7 | We settled down with a new bottle of champagne on the table before us , and I summarised what I had discovered about Brian Harley 's contract with Supersight and what I had not discovered about his putter . |
| 8 | However , I settled down with a new teacher for both piano and violin . |
| 9 | Other ‘ Cambrian ’ news is that the new 158 set broke down with a flat battery on the morning of the 7th July and had to be substituted by a Class 150 Sprinter . |
| 10 | When father and son were alone David stood warming his hands at the brazier , and looking down with a clouded face into the red glow . |
| 11 | In the winter he had gone down with a slight burst of influenza and anyone would have thought it was the plague . |
| 12 | Anders held Daeve down with a clever grip on the back of his neck . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | And the next thing he know he remembers he 's hanging upside down with a half feet around his the chain had slipped 't was round his ankle and he was hanging upside down in the dark twenty feet from the ground . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Beyond the curtains , the rain came down with a sudden clatter on the roof of the Ropewalk below . |
| 22 | Along the South Coast , Meridian is playing things down with a ten-minute introduction to new faces and programmes followed by a movie . |
| 23 | ‘ There 's really no need for you to go , ’ Rory cut in with a slight trace of desperation . |
| 24 | Leicester are in with a strong chance of the play-offs and will be keen to avenge a 3–0 early-season defeat at Ayresome Park . |
| 25 | Anytime a westerly or south-westerly wind is blowing , for example , means you must be in with a good chance of making a catch , even if other conditions are not equally as good . |
| 26 | Assuming the Boss and Big Boss can score a few wounds you are in with a good chance of winning the combat . |
| 27 | McHale said McGee was in with a good chance of starting against Halifax because he can play in defence or midfield . |
| 28 | ONE OF Britain 's most successful offshore construction yards is in with a good chance of winning a major order that could secure its future for a year . |
| 29 | And they had the , the erm they had sort of five out of the five or six horses that I thought were in with a good chance at eight to one . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ We are in with a good chance in this competition . |