Example sentences of "[to-vb] he down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time at last to rid himself of the name ‘ Marwood ’ for good and all : he told the officiating minister , Alfred Martell , to write him down as ‘ James Henry Titford ’ . |
| 2 | It would seem that she intended to pull him down — in itself a tall order — and so grabbed at the reins . |
| 3 | She wanted to pull him down with her . |
| 4 | Cos you had to pull him down to dance . |
| 5 | The fear was there again , from last summer , when Peter had climbed the long ladder up to the clock tower and had frozen near the top ; Barnes had had to talk him down . |
| 6 | Luke arrived , not too pleased about the party , and I tried to smooth him down . |
| 7 | I 've scrambled Dolfo Galland to shoot him down . |
| 8 | Previously he had been only partly successful , because the Jews had managed to track him down . |
| 9 | ‘ I missed him so much I phoned every campsite in the area to try to track him down , but no luck , ’ she said . |
| 10 | And for all he knows , we could be working together to track him down . ’ |
| 11 | But at this second exhibition Flatpattern 's ex-wife , who has been trying to track him down for alimony , appears , denounces him and the syndicate and mayhem breaks out . |
| 12 | ‘ Culley , yes ; but anyone — anyone who 's trying to track him down . |
| 13 | When the KGB make moves to track him down , he and another ‘ sleeper ’ , union leader Albert Robinson ( Warren Clarke , far left ) decide they do n't want to return to the USSR . |
| 14 | It had been ridiculously easy to track him down . |
| 15 | Each time the mother tried to contact the girl 's father by phone she got some evasive reply from premises she thought he might have reached — either he had left the day before , or was busy with the accountant , so the poor woman set off herself to track him down . |
| 16 | ‘ Where is he ? ’ she snapped , her tone suggesting that she was prepared to track him down . |
| 17 | I 'm going to track him down if it 's the last thing I do . ’ |
| 18 | Now , a search is under way on both sides of the Irish border to try to track him down . |
| 19 | Yeah , sorry , now erm all , all the way through this the , the , you know , is the usual business , you got this policeman , and you got the killer and you 're trying to track , he 's trying to track him down , all sorts of weird people keep getting killed and he 's trying to track him down . |
| 20 | Yeah , sorry , now erm all , all the way through this the , the , you know , is the usual business , you got this policeman , and you got the killer and you 're trying to track , he 's trying to track him down , all sorts of weird people keep getting killed and he 's trying to track him down . |
| 21 | He certainly does n't like publicity and we 've been unable to track him down . |
| 22 | Shelley drove into the Casa Madrid grounds , past the ornamental gate flanked by its two tall palm trees , right to the door , where Miguel 's servant and cook had already seen the jeep from the window , and stood waiting to help him down . |
| 23 | I tried to stare him down but he kept talking . |
| 24 | But mother used to play him down alright . |
| 25 | you know just to wipe him down and everything in the morning , he just grabbed that and I could see this thing tipping and I went oh god no , please , because that could of been the duvet , the duvet covers |
| 26 | Phoebe ceased even to bother to calm him down , to open herself to him . |
| 27 | He was a little shaken by the strain of the near accident but hoped concentrating on his new plan would help to calm him down . |
| 28 | He ran about the library shouting and shaking his fists at the shelves and the Headmaster had to send for Matron to calm him down . |
| 29 | After several hours Matron managed to calm him down but he left her in a terrible mood . |
| 30 | The punch when it came surprised the two younger FBI men by his side , who took his arms and tried to calm him down . |