Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he made to step down from the verandah he heard a footfall behind him and turned to find Lepine , already immaculate in his white suit , ready to leave . |
| 2 | I think that it was when he got turned down for the job of a bus conductor . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , ’ Yanto began hastily , ‘ I was told he got pinned down for a week in no-man 's land during the battle of the Somme in 1916 . |
| 4 | and he was let out and first , within twenty four hours he 'd gone down to the South Coast and killed his mother and his girl friend |
| 5 | When he craned to stare down at the crowds in the great square below the palace , his head moved so that it rested upon the parapet like a decoration . |
| 6 | He began to climb down into the ditch , hitting at the grass with his pick-handle . |
| 7 | He began to walk down to the windows and saw an envelope on the floor and when he bent to pick it up , the floor creaked and gave way . ’ |
| 8 | He needed to come down from a greater height than most . |
| 9 | Therefore instead of walking all the way along the cliffs that morning , he decided to go down to the beach on the last lap of his journey , knowing that Edna and her small charge could well be at the far end , from whence he could quickly scramble up the pathway to the Tremayne property . |
| 10 | He decided to go down to the cottage during the afternoon and find out for himself . |
| 11 | As he lay face down on the grass of the hollow , Melody , who had also consumed a considerable amount of drink , sat down heavily beside him and spoke to herself . |
| 12 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 13 | Not just Giles 's spite-filled revenge , but the expression in Nathan Bryce 's eyes as he had gazed down from the dais . |
| 14 | He had to kneel down in the muddy track , damaging his trousers , reminding him of playground agonies ; he gripped , tugged , balanced . |
| 15 | By the time he had rushed down in an elevator and emerged on the track , the other two medallists had received their medals — and the national anthem was being played without anybody on the gold medal podium . |
| 16 | They got him in the boat and they he had to lie down in the bottom of the boat and they and they covered him with a tarpaulin . |
| 17 | He checked , but only momentarily , then he had jumped down onto the track a knife in his hand . |
| 18 | he had gone down without a sound — and by the time he had woken up , his ship had been two days out into the Channel . |
| 19 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 20 | He had gone down to the stable earlier and seen that it was missing , so he went to look for it . |
| 21 | He had gone down to the cells to have a look and discovered that the prisoner was his former schoolmate . |
| 22 | In the winter he had gone down with a slight burst of influenza and anyone would have thought it was the plague . |
| 23 | When Margaret finally foundered , some hoped that he had gone down with the ship , but here he was as buoyant as the Vicar of Bray . |
| 24 | At one point he had to slow down for a distance of several miles . |
| 25 | Duroc looked over the reports from the engineers he had sent down into the dry sewers . |
| 26 | He had got down from the table half-way through tea and was sitting on a chair in the doorway , looking droopy and listless . |
| 27 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |
| 28 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
| 29 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
| 30 | He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital . |