Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] down the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He tried to break down the father-role position doctors held , so the patients could feel more relaxed and see him almost as an equal .
2 The four men looked up as he came scrambling down the steep bank .
3 Sharpe spurred down to the crossroads , touched his hat to the old ladies who were staring with alarm at the two horsemen , then he turned to gaze down the long southwards road that led to Charleroi .
4 The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before .
5 Remember that he says he then , in his fright at what he had done , went to peer at his victim , and found that he had struck down the wrong man .
6 ‘ So you are saying plainly , ’ said Earl Robert , attentive and still , ‘ that there were two murderers , at least in intent , and this wretched brother , once he knew he had struck down the wrong man , had no reason in the world to wish him further harm . ’
7 Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts .
8 He had run down the long corridors to the lounge and arrived just as the shuttle passengers were disembarking .
9 Manager Trevor Francis confirmed yesterday that he had turned down the huge offer from Toulon .
10 By 10.30 he had gone down the full length of the corridor that ran past his office and he had then spent two and a half hours in H3 's laboratory .
11 Five minutes later he had slithered down the sandy cliffs , a mug of tea slopping in each hand .
12 On Friday night after he had pulled down the blind Dan Salmon handed over five sovereigns to Charlie along with several wafers of matzos .
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