Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair . |
| 2 | According to a report in the Independent of Sept. 17 Dharsono 's release was " a gesture of appeasement " by Suharto to groups within the military which had demanded that he step down at the end of his fifth term . |
| 3 | There was a moment during the shooting of Midnight Cowboy when Dustin gave so much energy to the character 's cough that he fell down in the street vomiting . |
| 4 | But this lad make a mistake and he come down to the my sisters house , and my sister and her husband took him in and he 'd fallen and cut his brow , and after he was kind of sobered up he turned down and he said Not a story about this now James . |
| 5 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
| 6 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
| 7 | ‘ Have I ? ’ and he stared down at the letters . |
| 8 | Rory could n't suppress a soft chuckle at the thought , and he looked down from the stepladder at the sound . |
| 9 | Then fear overcame curiosity and he scrambled down from the tree with such haste that he skinned his knees and gouged a long deep gash along the inside of his forearm . |
| 10 | For every year at midwinter the sun grows weak and pale , and he sinks down into the marshes to spend the long winter night there , and Mokosh , the old witch , his foster-mother , nurses him until he is strong again , with herbs and spells and incantations . |
| 11 | But he , he was getting more money in Bailey 's so he ended up if he went down to the , the he would get two fifty still . |
| 12 | In 1889 Schnadhorst 's own candidature in Newcastle under Lyme was approved but he stood down in the following year because of ill health . |
| 13 | The horse soared through the foul-smellimg smoke and the General saw a bayonet reach towards the animal 's belly , but he slashed down with the sword , knocking the bayonet aside , and suddenly the horse had landed safely beyond the furniture and was running free of the smoke . |
| 14 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 15 | I waited while he jumped down into the clearing and disappeared . |
| 16 | The whole train stopped while he jumped down from the dome car and went to look at the laggard . |
| 17 | Walsh warned : ‘ James has been unstoppable this season since he trimmed down in the summer from 22 stone to a mere 18 . |
| 18 | Walsh warned : ‘ James has been unstoppable this season since he trimmed down in the summer from 22 stone to a mere 18 . |
| 19 | His knee problems began three weeks ago , but came to a head on Wednesday when he was forced to pull out of a friendly for Juventus against Second Division side Spal , after he broke down during the warm-up . |
| 20 | We 'd have a respite of about a fortnight if we were lucky before he went down with the next one . |
| 21 | He got to his feet in one sinuous movement , stretching hugely , his arms above his head , before he sank down in the chair opposite . |
| 22 | It caught him full in the middle of his back , throwing him into the air before he crashed down on the cobbles . |
| 23 | He had heard shots , including the rapid fire of automatics , but when he rushed down to the river-bank the kidnappers had already vanished with their victims . |
| 24 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 25 | He was a final-year student there when he went down to the provincial town of Kecskemet to earn some pocket money by delivering lectures . |
| 26 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 27 | When he stepped down from the editorship , the November 1975 issue carried a story slamming student apathy and a cartoon captioned : ‘ Will Tiger Tim 's boat sink without a replacement ? ’ |
| 28 | In spite of the headset that he wore for the flight , his ears were still ringing when he climbed down from the helicopter . |
| 29 | Each night he would be more red-eyed , hardly able to drag his feet with tiredness , his face caked white with lime , lime in his eyes and ears and nostrils , his throat dry , lime thick through his hair and clothes and when he sat down to the table he felt as if he were eating lime . |
| 30 | So this is how it 's going to be , thinks Howard , as he rides down in the lift again . |