Example sentences of "[adv prt] with a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gulped the syllable , taking it down with a swallow of air . |
| 2 | If the organizer calls ‘ submarines ’ everyone lies down with a leg in the air . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This was all washed down with a bottle of red wine . |
| 5 | Washed down with a bottle of Riesling Schonenbourg — Tim 's choice from the Orient Express menu . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Miss Jarman sat down with a thump in the matching wing chair on the other side of the fireplace . |
| 8 | He laid the diagram out on the desk-top , weighting each corner down with a pile of papers . |
| 9 | I stood in the middle of the road , conscious of my affrontery , flagging it down with a bundle of banknotes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The lights are kept down with a couple of bricks . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mostyn reacted , and brought the sumpsucker with the shotgun down with a burst of fire . |
| 14 | I gave it a coat yesterday morning and then it hardened up and I rubbed it down with a bit of fine wire wool today |
| 15 | Hope he comes down with a cold in the next few days . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't expect this treatment from my father 's oldest friend , ’ said Monks angrily , sitting down with a frown on his face . |
| 17 | Hard down with a horror of height : |
| 18 | Darius grabs a wedge , ices it with half an inch of butter , crams it in his mouth and washes it down with a can of Coke . |
| 19 | He had breakfasted lightly on Marmite and toast washed down with a pot of tea . |
| 20 | Nails went upstairs and after a long time came down with a pair of paint-spattered dungarees and two pairs of jeans belonging to his father who weighed about sixteen stone , two jerseys of Gary 's and a navy-blue suit of indeterminate ancestry . |
| 21 | Let your child wash the medicine down with a mouthful of his or her favourite drink , so that an association can be made between the taste of medicine and something more pleasant . ’ |
| 22 | Carolyn sat on her bed and swallowed the sleeping tablets , washing each down with a mouthful of water . |
| 23 | He had climbed in and settled himself down with a sigh of contentment at the way the softness and smoothness of the upholstered seats favoured his weary limbs . |
| 24 | Maxham removed an empty paint tin from the seat of the nearest armchair and sat down with a sigh of relief ‘ I 've got this verruca , ’ he confided . |
| 25 | " Not , " Steven said , sitting forward and tapping the desk as Mr Starke sat back , slumping down with a sigh in his seat and shaking his head , smiling slightly , " because I wanted to , either . |
| 26 | Feeling a strong need for nursery food , Amiss shoved a shepherd 's pie in the microwave , cooked himself some peas and washed the lot down with a pint of milk . |
| 27 | And then Ratagan went down with a grypesh at his throat , and Riven forgot about hesitating . |
| 28 | She watched covertly as he sat down with a drink on the opposite side of the room from her and then proceeded carefully to avoid her eye , by turning to talk to the person seated on the sofa beside him . |
| 29 | At bottom , this is the grip which the story of Jonah and the whale still has on us : fear of being devoured by a large creature , fear of being chomped , slurped , gargled , washed down with a draught of salt water and a school of anchovies as a chaser ; fear of being blinded , darkened , suffocated , drowned , hooded with blubber ; fear of sensory deprivation which we know drives people mad ; fear of being dead . |
| 30 | ‘ The Soviet Union and China are marching towards the open market and here we are , in southern California , the home of Ronald Reagan , talking about tying the economy down with a maze of petty regulations … |