Example sentences of "he [verb] down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With that , he hopped down from the rock , leaving its previous occupant free rein over the throng .
2 He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx .
3 Howard ca n't help laughing to himself as he goes down in the lift .
4 The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair .
5 " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black .
6 if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem .
7 So this is how it 's going to be , thinks Howard , as he rides down in the lift again .
8 He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray .
9 But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ .
10 He got down off the cart to pick a leaf from a roadside bush , and hoisting himself back into his seat resumed his journey , sucking on the leaf as he started to explain .
11 I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot .
12 He got down from the wall and walked on .
13 He got down from the cab .
14 There 'll be nobody in at this hour ! ’ he repeated loudly , to the men behind as he got down from the jeep .
15 He got down from the jeep and walked into the villa , his shirt crumpled , and his footsteps weary .
16 He gazed down at the bunker , head bent and quiet , as though paying his respects .
17 He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer .
18 He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table .
19 He looks down into the gardens hidden everywhere behind the patched and crumbling walls .
20 He lives down near the bottom of Wind Street , got a shop he has , a well-to-do sort of man , better off than me at any rate . ’
21 He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat .
22 When he was clear of the goat herds and the sheep that grazed around the village , he moved down to the river that was a tributary of the distant Tigris .
23 Ashley enquired , as he peered down at the instrument panel .
24 To steady himself he sank down on the side of the bed .
25 He got to his feet in one sinuous movement , stretching hugely , his arms above his head , before he sank down in the chair opposite .
26 It caught him full in the middle of his back , throwing him into the air before he crashed down on the cobbles .
27 I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game .
28 He bent down beside the stone and reached out to touch and trace the indented lettering .
29 He knelt down beside the dog , staring into her face in the meagre light from the outer stairway .
30 With a meekness that made her feel mean , he knelt down on the floor and started to gather his cuttings together .
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