Example sentences of "[adv prt] with [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bulldog twitched and sniffed the air , started to rise but thought better of it and flopped down with her head on her paws . |
| 2 | Benny gave the phone to the Sister , and sat down with her head in her hands . |
| 3 | Anne sat down with her elbows on the table and considered . |
| 4 | There was a certain rapprochement though , as Mary came down with her things in the back-pack Rufus had lent her and wearing jeans and a pair of sandals for the first time for days . |
| 5 | Despite the disquieting exchange with her host Leonora felt rather more cheerful when she settled down with her knitting . |
| 6 | They spend much of their leisure time down in Dorset , walking or bird-watching ; at home they enjoy gardening or relaxing — Pauline 's favourite way is to sit down with her knitting in front of the television . |
| 7 | She had lain down with her love — the enemy — and now she did n't know what was to become of her . |
| 8 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 9 | She put the hairbrush down and began to pull hideous faces in the glass , pulling the corners of her eyes down with her forefingers and squashing her nose up with her thumbs so that she looked like an insane pug dog . |
| 10 | Between them , she and Marie-Christine loaded the dish-washer , while Monique , with a tolerant eye on the engrossed pair at the table , made more coffee , before settling down with her petit-point . |
| 11 | She reached down with her finger and drew it out covered in blood . |
| 12 | She too was saying that she had an urge to go down with her broom and sweep up the these building works . |
| 13 | His sergeant , an alert girl whom he addressed as Barbara , served them all with mugs of strong tea before sitting down with her notebook on her lap . |
| 14 | She bore down with her backside , sitting on his belly with his penis gripped inside her . |
| 15 | He did n't look dangerous at all now , she thought , lying there like a mummer 's puppet flung down with its limbs every which way and the head at an odd angle . |
| 16 | There was a Venetian blind , normally down with its slats open . |
| 17 | The Muslim 's bird had gone back on to the offensive , swooping down with its spurs and ripping a great gash along its enemy 's cheek . |
| 18 | Why not extend the study to co occurrence within the same phrase ( moon in a silver sky ) or within the same sentence ( the moon stared down with its silver eye ) ? |
| 19 | The plane touched down with its tyres screaming . |
| 20 | On a tree-stump beside one cave-mouth , a raccoon sits swatting them down with its paw , munching the little bodies and discarding the skinny wings onto a growing pile on the ground beside it . |
| 21 | He and his wife , Carole , had sat down with their business adviser and decided they needed to get away from traditional crops and livestock . |
| 22 | Fred sat on the end of the bed with his elbows on his knees and his hands hanging down with their knuckles back to back , like a tired football player in a dressing-room . |
| 23 | A few days later , the storm became so violent that sheep became buried in six-foot drifts of snow , and the camera recorded farmers scrabbling down with their hands to release buried sheep , pin-pointed by amazingly perceptive border collies . |
| 24 | ‘ They put clean nightdresses on , and they straighten their bed , and then they lie down with their hands crossed on their chest . |
| 25 | Eventually , as the lunchtime crowds subsided officewards and the pub was left to a few loud tourists , they found a quiet corner and sat down with their drinks . |
| 26 | When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society . |
| 27 | All the pain of Fulham leaving Only you can heal , If you can sit down with our Chairman And work out a deal ; Surely leasing or selling to Fulham would be very sound , Instead of being owners of a derelict ground . |
| 28 | We sat down with our coffee . |
| 29 | We had two minutes to get into cover and walked round to the other side of the wall and crouched down with our hands over our ears and our helmets firmly strapped on . |
| 30 | It is the SGP that we shall arrive at if we sit down with our chemistry textbooks , or strike sparks through plausible mixtures of atmospheric gases in our laboratory , and calculate the odds of replicating molecules springing spontaneously into existence in a typical planetary atmosphere . |