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Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1	A blow from one of the men holding him knocked him down onto the cobbles .
2	No , Caroline thought , as she let him lead her down to the ancient ground , no , it had n't .
3	She let him help her down from the carriage and lead her inside a shop where there was a strong , pastoral smell of grain , and Sarah wrinkled up her nose to sniff it .
4	But he laid her down on the horsehair sofa , and said Mrs Patten would not be in yet , and there was time ; and time there was , and what had happened last night was repeated , once and then again , until she , flushed and dishevelled , pulled down her dress , and said ‘ She is coming .
5	He laid it down on a rock and plunged his arm in the sack once more .
6	He pinned her down at the CI5 computer centre , and over the phone briefly explained what he and Doyle needed of her .
7	Still offering no explanation , he led her down to the riverbank and then the rest of the way back to the centre .
8	Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again .
9	‘ Nico , ’ she 'd sigh , as he drew her down to the sand , ‘ my Nico . ’
10	He bore her down to the carpet , his face hard against hers , one hand pulling up her skirts , and when she still struggled struck her a blow which left her half stunned on the floor , for him to do as he would with her .
11	He lifted her down from the train , kissed her swiftly , then began to lead her towards the taxi rank .
12	Giving her the full length of the halter , he allowed her down to the bank , to drink her fill from the water .
13	‘ I 'm not good at waiting , ’ she persisted stubbornly , as he handed her down from the cruiser .
14	He dumped it down behind the boat-house and went back towards the house , then after a bit he came down again with a picture , and dumped that , then he took the bag and made off up the path with it . ’
15	A tallish hummock loomed , and he pulled her down into the wet grass behind it .
16	They were like little nets : they were exactly the shape of a horse 's ears : he pulled them down over the ears , and they each had a red or blue tassel hanging on them .
17	He took them down to the station and sent them off to London by passenger train .
18	He took her down to the brasserie , sat with her at a corner table away from the main body of the room .
19	He took her down to the bathroom , and turned on the geyser for her .
20	The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see
21	I said there was to be a sale , but I would ask the solicitor ; and afterwards , when he came to take the barometer away , he took it down from the wall very , very gently .
22	Well he , he took it down by a certain amount by putting onto VAT .
23	He put her down on the bed , and , removing the crutch from her nerveless hand , tossed it into the corner , before sitting beside her .
24	He put her down in a chair by the windows and , his dark face abstracted , said , ‘ There 's something I need to deal with .
25	He put me down in the Brompton Road — very kind and understanding — saying ‘ If you walk from here , you 'll keep him waiting just a minute like all you ladies do . ’
26	Peter thought that he 'd been a fool to imagine that there might be something wrong between his hosts ; he put it down to an overactive imagination coloured by wishful thinking .
27	He put it down on the tray then captured her hand , suddenly very much the professional consultant .
28	Well actually a girl friend of mine came round here yesterday , oh , lunch timeish was it , and erm , Henry forget his ball , he got so excited of the though of going out he put it down in the hall , came here and was thoroughly miserable all the way round , without his ball his lost , you know , a dog walk is n't a dog walk for Henry .
29	The champion jockey had been waving the whip in his left hand and when he put it down inside the last furlong , I must say that the clear impression from behind my glasses was that he thought the race was over .
30	He puts it down at the base of the new li ga — the stripped pine trunk that all the men brought back from the forest and erected early this morning — and pours some water over the lamb 's head and in a stripe down its back to the base of the tail .