Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 2 | I track him down to the University of Saskatchewan and just catch him at home before he leaves for work . |
| 3 | I put him down as a schoolboy . |
| 4 | As I had a twelfth-hand Hillman Imp at the time I drove him down to his place in South London . |
| 5 | He seemed to know so much about fighting that I was very surprised when I knocked him down with my first hit , and then again with my second . |
| 6 | I followed him down from 2,000 feet — put carb heat on — I was descending as quickly as the helicopter ; we managed to keep him visual . |
| 7 | I talked him down at one point |
| 8 | But it 's , i I saw him down at , what he did he moved the bottom which |
| 9 | Someone brought him down to the hospital a couple of hours ago , and since then his condition has deteriorated . |
| 10 | I took him down with a shell , and he flew to pieces . |
| 11 | He wo n't , he wa he , I had him down on the |
| 12 | Back a yard or more — here where the covert is thick , someone struck him down from behind and to his left — here on the left side of the path , from ambush . ’ |
| 13 | I sat him down on the kerb and called police . ’ |
| 14 | If you bring him down about |
| 15 | I watched as he engaged a man who led him down to a boat ; they climbed in , and the man began to haul away on his oars . |
| 16 | " Now you sit him down over there and wet his hair . " |
| 17 | In the end she got him down to his Micronauts , his plastic airport , and a bag of Dinky cars . |
| 18 | It was a glimmering he had , but no more than that , and she cast him down from the height of her knowledge . |
| 19 | And he blames AC Scotland for the sabotaging of his plans to raise a second round of finance by stockbrokers in Europe who let him down at the last minute . |
| 20 | why ca n't you send him down to court ? |
| 21 | Leonora felt very subdued as she followed him down to the relatively peaceful little beach of Lee Haven , where years before Joshua Probert had built a safe anchorage for his boats . |
| 22 | She pulled him down beside her in the long grass , and smiled shyly at him as she undressed . |
| 23 | In answer she pulled him down on top of her . |
| 24 | At first she could n't find him anywhere but finally she tracked him down to the big barn . |
| 25 | In a way , she brought him down to earth . |
| 26 | After some time , she lay him down on his back and checked his body . |
| 27 | In a wedding photograph , the interesting faces are not those of the bride and groom , but of the encircling guests : the bride 's younger sister ( will it happen to me , the tremendous thing ? ) , the groom 's elder brother ( will she let him down like that bitch did me ? ) , the bride 's mother ( how it takes me back ) , the groom 's father ( if the lad knew what I know now if only I 'd known what I know now ) , the priest ( strange how even the tongue-tied are moved to eloquence by these ancient vows ) , the scowling adolescent ( what do they want to get married for ? ) , and so on . |
| 28 | Yeah well by then you 'd , you 'd already messed him up , she must 've got him to sleep before she put him down in the cot did she ? |
| 29 | That was deemed to be 15 seconds too long , Sam was penalised one shot then bowed out in a play-off to old foe Mark ‘ Jesse ’ James who gunned him down by holing an outrageous downhill put on the self-same green the following evening . |
| 30 | The oriental had released them from their cells a short time before , and ordered them to precede him down through an open trapdoor into a secret escape tunnel . |