Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] down [prep] [art] " 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 | As he reached it , the ground fell away from under him and he rolled down into a deep ditch . |
5 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
8 | I hit the gunman right between the windows of his soul and he went down with a lot of sparks and technoflash that I for one was n't expecting . |
9 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
10 | ‘ Have I ? ’ and he stared down at the letters . |
11 | Holly stood beside a poorly dug hole and he looked down at a T-shaped junction of pipes and saw that the screw-fastened aperture that gave access to the pipe join and its subsidiary were swathed in doth and knotted around in plastic sheeting . |
12 | Rory could n't suppress a soft chuckle at the thought , and he looked down from the stepladder at the sound . |
13 | Emily ignored him and he slumped down in a chair , trying to catch her eye . |
14 | I was a little tired and went to my room to rest before dressing for dinner and he sat down to a game of Patience . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | After a while his initial panic died down and he settled down into a steadier gallop , still with his head turned to the outside . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Beating a similarly ornamented one-sided drum with a fur-covered stick , the shaman chanted and danced with increasing frenzy until he fell down in a trance . |
19 | But even when he was surrounded he continued to lay about him with his sword , and then with an axe when his sword broke , until he went down from a blow to the head . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | In 1889 Schnadhorst 's own candidature in Newcastle under Lyme was approved but he stood down in the following year because of ill health . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | I waited while he jumped down into the clearing and disappeared . |
25 | The whole train stopped while he jumped down from the dome car and went to look at the laggard . |
26 | Walsh warned : ‘ James has been unstoppable this season since he trimmed down in the summer from 22 stone to a mere 18 . |
27 | Walsh warned : ‘ James has been unstoppable this season since he trimmed down in the summer from 22 stone to a mere 18 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | We 'd have a respite of about a fortnight if we were lucky before he went down with the next one . |
30 | He got to his feet in one sinuous movement , stretching hugely , his arms above his head , before he sank down in the chair opposite . |