Example sentences of "[adv prt] with [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This not merely scattered them but wreaked havoc on the transports which had got out of harbour ; 12 were sunk of which seven went down with all on board .
2 I mean what I 'll do is I 'll come and sit down with each of you and and we 'll
3 The World Bank reckons that on most measures of welfare it ranks down with much of sub-Saharan Africa , and only a bit above Haiti .
4 We 'll go straight back to The Fleece , and you must lie down with one of your tablets . ’
5 So what happened is that the literate women arranged their time so that every day they now have an hour set by to sit down with one of the illiterates and that 's how the literacy campaign is operating at the moment .
6 The power supply goes in too , the whole thing in its case , and is stuck down with one of those double sided pads .
7 Those are the first ones you contact but you still have to sit down with one of the estate agents and say , Well look what sort of business do you give them ?
8 I had a bit of an up and down with one of your ilk only about an hour ago . ’
9 ‘ There was plenty of flak over the target area , and I kept looking at my useless chute , yet at the same time it was treated as a huge joke by us all , with the rest of the crew saying that no way was I going down with any of them if need be !
10 For instance , sitting down with some of the battered wives , she leaned across the table , chin on hand , asking each woman in turn : ‘ How long can you stay here ?
11 They should sit down with some of us who are interested in these matters and draw up a quality scheme that works .
12 The former , while fitting in with much of popular ideology , is contradicted by current sociological studies of men 's violence ; the latter is more consistent with the evidence of this research .
13 Wells , who worked for Geary 's at 22 Cross Street , almost opposite Oliver 's tobacconist , had described a man in the near vicinity whose description did not completely tie in with many of the other witnesses .
14 It seemed plausible that demand management could be continued in the longer term in peacetime , and it fitted in with many of Labour 's goals .
15 And Julian Logue , who re-wrote the NI Snooker history books with the 147 maximum at the Bass Open in Coalisland last season , weighed in with 110 on his way to victory over Michael Sweet .
16 Various factions are at work , each seeking to promote its own interests — I 'd not give a fig for the young king 's life if he fell in with one of them !
17 It , it worked out , my mum at first thought it were n't too bad cos she got in with one of these special offer things .
18 This view tied in with that of Mezey .
19 His people will share the vision and strive for it too , creating their own personal vision of what is required , a personal vision which will mesh in with that of the Profitboss and the overall company .
20 There was little public knowledge of the extent to which intelligence tests had already become part of the machinery of secondary selection by 1940 , nor how far their use was tied in with that of standardised tests of attainment in English and arithmetic , which were provided , marked and correlated by the same person or organisation .
21 The potential meaning of to with the infinitive can therefore be diagrammed in the following manner : The potential meaning of to as described above fits in with that of the bare infinitive in the following very simple way : the latter evokes that which defines the end-point of the movement denoted by to .
22 Suzi Hoflin came in with two of her pupils and put Ingrid through a reasonable enough gypsy dance routine .
23 All three came in with two under par rounds of 73 over the Royal Lytham and St Annes on a day when only eight players bettered a demanding par .
24 ‘ Mr Gajdusek … ’ she promptly decided to get in with another of her interview questions , though she made the mistake of looking at him , and his raised-eyebrow glance at her stopped her .
25 An optimum path can be selected and other activities adjusted to phase in with those on this ‘ critical path ’ .
26 It does little to promote the general public understanding of the sport when riders whose only role will be in the supporting competitions are mixed in with those in pursuit of the World Cup .
27 This is a short excursion which does not fit in with any of the circuits mentioned above .
28 ‘ After all , he is the champion and he has been in with some of the best fighters of the day .
29 to fit in with some of the other things that we .
30 I AM indebted to John Moorey from Portsmouth who has been kind enough to fill me in with some of the details of the extraordinary golfing life of Mary Toogood , nee Johnson , who died earlier this year .
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