Example sentences of "her down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sonja was as usual being difficult and her mother was trying to strike an impossible balance between calming her down and getting her to do as she was told . |
| 2 | A lot of women put her down for working with a man , especially one like Francis , camp as Christmas in Tangiers , a slow fuse of lasciviousness smouldered in every phrase . |
| 3 | The altitude was really affecting her and it was important to get her down now . |
| 4 | But the eight-time Wimbledon champion lost the first set as the Czechoslovak brought her down with her huge serve and she looked a bag of nerves . |
| 5 | I thought , at first , of Jean Hastie and of summoning her down to deal with this . |
| 6 | They used to really flatten her down . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll send her down to you , ’ Sister Cooney laughed . |
| 8 | The fire service clamped down on initiation rituals after a young firewoman in London revealed that colleagues had tied her to a ladder , hosed her down , poured urine over her , used foul language and exposed themselves to her . |
| 9 | The moment the stairway door closed behind her , the elevator regained its composure and followed her down . |
| 10 | He tried to prolong the date , leading her down the streets of the old part of town and then uphill to the courtyard of an old cloister , teeming with tourists . |
| 11 | But how would he break the news to Georgina that he 'd let her down after all these years ? |
| 12 | He toyed with the idea of creating a little angst in her life to slow her down . |
| 13 | Then she remembered , with grudging fairness , that it was an obsession of her own that had brought her down there . |
| 14 | ‘ If you want my advice , lovie , you 'll pop her down the Town Hall and find her a decent coat to wear . |
| 15 | Could n't you have left her down there with that woman friend ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The doctor 's given her some pills to calm her down . |
| 17 | As she ran to her bedroom to find some clothes , her Dad 's dressing-gown , flapping round her legs , slowed her down . |
| 18 | She knew only , as they made their slow way along the beach back to the town , that she felt exhausted but peaceful , even momentarily carefree , as if she had shed burdens that had been weighing her down for a long time . |
| 19 | Only the two ‘ star ’ dressing rooms had an extension in Clarissa 's theatre , and the Stage Door Keeper grumbled a bit as he climbed the stairs to call her down to his box by the Stage Door . |
| 20 | I pulled her to the side where Otley dragged her up the bank and began to dust her down as if she were not wet but dirty . |
| 21 | He heard her sigh deeply , the way she always did when he let her down in some way . |
| 22 | Dorothea sat her down and padded her in with cushions , smiled vaguely and went off to make the tea . |
| 23 | In the face of misfortunes and petty irritations , of death and daily pain , and the loss of love , she had held to her expectations and they had never let her down . |
| 24 | Her fingers stroked my balls and her lips slid on my penis and in a few minutes , free to call her what I wished , I pulled her down and mounted her . |
| 25 | Feeling guilty again , for not liking curry and for not wanting to go to India and letting her down , I say no , I will just have a boiled egg and toast , I 'm not very hungry , that will be fine . |
| 26 | The wife wanted David Thomson to address the Literary Society here , but the committee shot her down in flames . |
| 27 | Four months in France had quietened her down and at the same time given her a veneer of sophistication quite lacking before . |
| 28 | He drew her down to kiss her . |
| 29 | She has bruising on her wrists from where she says he held her down . ’ |
| 30 | Out of the kindness of their enormous hearts , the giants had lifted her out of her icy misery and carefully put her down in the warmer waters where she was to be found today . |