Example sentences of "him down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the intervening years , however , the West may be thought to have let him down by declining , diminishing , to the condition of the West Indies : by becoming a backwater , with its Watergate and Ulster , its economic arrests and somnambulistic states of emergency . |
| 2 | ‘ So get him down here . ’ |
| 3 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , he knuckled under , but the young man made a great show of being a soldier and the McLaggans went to cool him down . ’ |
| 5 | I tell you , one night , if we knew he was coming , we would wait for him round the back and pitch him down the falls ! ’ |
| 6 | One morning Jamie conducted him down two flights of stairs and into a long high apartment , like a baronial hall . |
| 7 | Lay him down |
| 8 | ‘ He was distressed from all the moving , so it was kindest to put him down , ’ Steve said . |
| 9 | When he was half-way over , the Czechoslovak police guarding the back of the embassy grabbed the man 's belt and began hauling him down . |
| 10 | I remember his telling us how the first time he encountered stress incontinence was as a young boy standing at the foot of the ladder while a little old country woman handed him down apples from the tree . |
| 11 | It 's the difference between the person who knocks you down to take your purse and the person who knocks him down to come to your rescue . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We have now got him down , ’ Roberts said triumphantly , ‘ to 10 pints and a bucket of chips . ’ |
| 13 | We have now got him down to 10 pints and a bucket of chips . |
| 14 | Ieuan Evans 's shoulder let him down on his comeback , possibly ruling the Lions wing out for this season , and Neath 's lock prospect Gareth Llewelyn also limped out of contention for a Test place with a knee injury . |
| 15 | McKim , a Wales youth player last season and new to some of the more unwelcome machinations of senior rugby , lost his temper so totally after a brush with the Cardiff prop Jeff Whitefoot that he even lashed out at Newport 's skipper , Glen George , who was trying to cool him down . |
| 16 | James Shaw was given five years for his part in a later plot to kill Stephen Brown by knocking him down with a car . |
| 17 | When I reached Sid , someone had brought him down and extinguished the flames . |
| 18 | All of a sudden , Alfred strike one karate pose there and leap one leap on the front man , knocking him down , grabbed his machine gun and with two more leaps he was past them and through us as we open up like a black red sea and close again . |
| 19 | Steve was a new face to me but Paul I already knew from playing football against him down at the Lillie Road recreation ground . |
| 20 | As I had a twelfth-hand Hillman Imp at the time I drove him down to his place in South London . |
| 21 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 22 | The police considered this and took him down to the station — for tea and sticky buns . |
| 23 | Phoebe ceased even to bother to calm him down , to open herself to him . |
| 24 | Tony surprises an oncoming motorist by assuming a position that leaves his legs on the gravel road but takes the rest of him down among the lake-side vegetation . |
| 25 | I hold him down , Nathan operates the most stable of the head torches , Odd-Knut operates the needle and thread and Tony takes the photographs . |
| 26 | Then he , too , slipped off into an uneasy sleep , and strange , vivid dreams , in which Lieutenant Werner chased him down endless , war-torn and shattered streets , for ever . |
| 27 | They had taken him down in the lift and he had stood there looking at her face , peaceful and still . |
| 28 | ‘ Put him down for x-ray , Sister , and we 'll see . ’ |
| 29 | He was not sure which he wanted her to be and was still puzzling about it next day when she called to take him down . |
| 30 | It had been Sister Cooney 's idea to take him down to help in the library . |