Example sentences of "he [verb] down [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes watered so fiercely that tears ran down his cheeks , but he fought down the choking sensation and his self-esteem soared . |
| 2 | ‘ Was the action taken by the British the proper thing to do ? ’ he asked down a crackling line from Buenos Aires to Woodward 's home in Surbiton , Surrey . |
| 3 | She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity . |
| 4 | Two months later in a game against Hearts he moved down the human anatomy , this time fouling the opposition fullback Steve Hamilton , who was helped off the pitch with stud marks on his stomach . |
| 5 | What was odd , thought Twoflower as he strolled down a wide flight of stairs and kicked up billowing clouds of silver dust motes , was that the tunnels here were much wider . |
| 6 | A SCHOOLBOY was robbed of his mountain bike as he pedalled down the hard shoulder of a motorway to get help after his dad 's car broke down . |
| 7 | With his two daughters , one holding each hand , he came down the long staircase from the top-floor flat . |
| 8 | made it down the right hand side , he 's wearing number eleven but he came down the right hand side on this occasion and er a deep cross , he pulled it back brilliantly and who 'd missed that earlier header was there and could n't really miss on this occasion , but it was a fine header by him . |
| 9 | He stocks his stores with fresh-faced young assistants to whom he hands down a rigid dress code like a strict father : no nail varnish , no high heels — no dark tights even . |
| 10 | McCreery left last month after he turned down a new contract . |
| 11 | He strolled along by the front of the house until he reached the north wing , where he turned down the grassy slope towards the trees . |
| 12 | My first clear memory is of sitting on the front of his horse as he galloped down a ploughed field , of the earth skittering and turning , and being safe in his arms . |
| 13 | Oh well , she said , you see , it 's my work , she said I work in a , in an insurance office and she said I 'm in and out the courts all the time , you see so he knocked down the wrong person |
| 14 | He broke down the locked door and escaped , just as the master and his men returned . |
| 15 | He took down a large earthenware flask from a shelf above the range , unstoppered it , and poured a measure of golden liquid into Cleo 's mug . |
| 16 | He took down the lengthy list of produce prices , all in US dollars and cents , eradicated the zeros or ‘ nulls ’ which indicated a space in the message , and according to the day of the month set the lines of figures against prepared lines of letters . |
| 17 | He put down the empty tea cup with surprising force . |
| 18 | Stealthily he slipped down the deserted staircase past the second and third floors without mishap . |
| 19 | Then he ran down the wooden stair , through the house , out to the lower lawn . |
| 20 | He continued down a cobbled footpath towards a pump where a woman was drawing water . |
| 21 | He fought with the Eighth Army and was mentioned in dispatches when he shot down a German plane with a machine-gun he had captured from an Italian plane . |
| 22 | In each he jots down an initial point — " 1 . |
| 23 | Hits it so low , he knocks it off and he comes down the wrong way and lands on top of us . |