Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lowered himself down to the bed and her hands frantically flew to his bare chest . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He pinned her down at the CI5 computer centre , and over the phone briefly explained what he and Doyle needed of her . |
| 4 | Still offering no explanation , he led her down to the riverbank and then the rest of the way back to the centre . |
| 5 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
| 6 | Then he flung himself down on the settee . |
| 7 | After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ? |
| 8 | ‘ Nico , ’ she 'd sigh , as he drew her down to the sand , ‘ my Nico . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He lifted her down from the train , kissed her swiftly , then began to lead her towards the taxi rank . |
| 11 | He plopped himself down on the nearest chair . |
| 12 | Giving her the full length of the halter , he allowed her down to the bank , to drink her fill from the water . |
| 13 | He threw himself down on the bed with his head on my stomach , groaning , and between the groans saying that he would be a good husband in future , he honestly would , he adored me , he was very ashamed and only hoped I could forgive him . |
| 14 | Suddenly he threw himself down on the ground and rolled over and over in the dust . |
| 15 | He threw himself down on the huge old bed and stared at the sloping timber ceiling . |
| 16 | He threw himself down in the chair , like a man beset by demons . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not good at waiting , ’ she persisted stubbornly , as he handed her down from the cruiser . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | A tallish hummock loomed , and he pulled her down into the wet grass behind it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He took them down to the station and sent them off to London by passenger train . |
| 22 | He took her down to the brasserie , sat with her at a corner table away from the main body of the room . |
| 23 | He took her down to the bathroom , and turned on the geyser for her . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He put her down on the bed , and , removing the crutch from her nerveless hand , tossed it into the corner , before sitting beside her . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | He put it down on the tray then captured her hand , suddenly very much the professional consultant . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |