Example sentences of "down [prep] him [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest . |
| 2 | He had pulled her down with him into the whirlpool of love , and now that she was submerged and drowning he had left her , escaping through the cloaking mist that hung over the water . |
| 3 | He looked up at her and smiled and she lay down with him on the grass in the sun . |
| 4 | Fergus had motioned him to sit down with him behind the hide , and to keep quiet . |
| 5 | You see , we 'd got such confidence that she told me that when he died , she said , ‘ He died in his bed here ’ , that we were in , you see ; and she said , ‘ I then closed his eyes and I laid down with him till the morning so that nobody should be disturbed . ’ |
| 6 | Easily distinguishable in his bird-lime-encrusted shirt and shorts , he often had a look in his eye that spoke of clouds and freedom , rather than the shin-splitting hordes bearing down on him in the shape of the Corton Heath Corinthians . |
| 7 | Oh , hello … ’ the Doctor replied , not able to tell who was bearing down on him in the fog . |
| 8 | Small boys spat down on him from the safety of high windows and their mothers clenched their buttocks and turned away their glowing cheeks . |
| 9 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 10 | What decisions , made arbitrarily and in anger , would be handed down to him in the morning ? |
| 11 | You 're letting in a draught , ’ whispered Izzie , sitting down beside him in the tail of the wagon . |
| 12 | ‘ And do n't dare tell me it 's going to be too tough for a woman , ’ Mariana shouted , as she glared down at him from the saloon . |
| 13 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 14 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |