Example sentences of "[coord] he [vb past] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |
2 | And he put down the phone . |
3 | The room was hot when he entered , and he turned down the thermostat on the wall . |
4 | As in the Million , Teleprompter soon had the field at full pelt , and he tore down the back stretch and round the final bend . |
5 | But he got down the pit , after you know whe after the War . |
6 | On his death the people of Clermont elected the comes Genesius , but he turned down the office , because , as a layman , he regarded the appointment as uncanonical . |
7 | Even lesser known men were received with open arms and , in some cases , cheque books : when the Rev. J. A. Macfadyen went to America to ‘ supply ’ the pulpit of Brooklyn 's Central Congregational Church he was offered a church in Chicago at the princely stipend of £2,000 — over £60,000 today — but he turned down the offer . |