Example sentences of "[adv prt] with [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now ‘ I 've Got My Mojo Working ’ does n't go down with everyone , but at that time there were a few people around who did like that kind of stuff , and we were hopefully appealing to them . ’ |
| 2 | The good prospect ’ he added , ‘ could arise if , as individuals , we felt able to resist the temptation to produce when that production does no more than fill up warehouses and to resist the temptation to chase prices down with what I can only assume is the objective of preserving a small bit of market share ’ . |
| 3 | At the time , the idea of a strong exclusive relationship was something that I did not actually want and I do n't think that even consciously at that time , I would have sought to have had that kind of relationship with David who was considerably younger than me and also , even though I was deeply into the whole scene and everything it represented , I do n't think I actually wanted to settle down with somebody who was a musician and was leading that sort of life style . |
| 4 | so I think in a way it would be quite nice to sit down with somebody from each of the colleges to hammer out the syllabus because Napier will see it from Napier 's point of view about what 's easiest for them to teach and what this and what the other whereas I suspect if you also sat down with and and people you might get a broader discussion base |
| 5 | But the eight-time Wimbledon champion lost the first set as the Czechoslovak brought her down with her huge serve and she looked a bag of nerves . |
| 6 | She reached down with her finger and drew it out covered in blood . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The bulldog twitched and sniffed the air , started to rise but thought better of it and flopped down with her head on her paws . |
| 9 | She turned over and lay on top of him , trying to pin him down with her own slight weight , and he began to fondle her and she him , and almost at once they were making love again . |
| 10 | Benny gave the phone to the Sister , and sat down with her head in her hands . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After a while Mary came down with her two friends . |
| 13 | Two novels of the 1720s point the contrast in public attitudes to the American colonies of the two countries in an odd way : the Abbé Prévost 's Manon Lescaut and Daniel Defoe 's Moll Flanders are about prostitutes , both of whom are transported to the new world , but Manon dies from exposure in the arms of her faithful des Grieux after walking six miles from New Orleans , while Moll Flanders settles down with her fifth husband to reckon her net worth in cash and tobacco before returning from Virginia to London . |
| 14 | She bore down with her backside , sitting on his belly with his penis gripped inside her . |
| 15 | Anne sat down with her elbows on the table and considered . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mandy either had not noticed the formidable wall of his reserve , or had decided to batter it down with her considerable charm . |
| 20 | She had lain down with her love — the enemy — and now she did n't know what was to become of her . |
| 21 | Despite the disquieting exchange with her host Leonora felt rather more cheerful when she settled down with her knitting . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She too was saying that she had an urge to go down with her broom and sweep up the these building works . |
| 24 | ‘ It must be got rid of even if it means that the Prime Minister goes down with her own flagship ’ . |
| 25 | I knew about them because of being at art college and I took Steve and Paul down with me and introduced them to a scene they knew nothing about . |
| 26 | Grief fills the room up of my absent child , lies in his bed , walks up and down with me … |
| 27 | He said : ‘ I could n't bear the thought of us going down with me as club captain and president . |
| 28 | By the time my father could sit down with me in a pub , slightly drunk , tell me and my friends about Real Life , crack a joke about a Pakistani that silenced a whole table once , and talk about the farm labourer 's — his grandfather 's — journey up from Eye in Suffolk working on the building of the Great North Western Railway to Rawtenstall on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border , I was doing history at Sussex , and knew more than he did about the date and timing of journeys like that . |
| 29 | Lie down with me and cover them with my blanket . ’ |
| 30 | Sit down with me on this bench , Jane . |