Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mailed hand in his kept hold firmly enough to draw him down to his knees as its owner sank back into the turf . |
| 2 | Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office . |
| 3 | I finally tracked him down to Antwerp . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Just run him down with your car , ’ suggested Nigel . |
| 5 | That usually brought him down to earth . |
| 6 | Mr Cheney promptly slapped him down for speaking out of turn , which had more to do with Pentagon power play than strategy . |
| 7 | Well I think that 's quite I mean I 'd probably knock him down to a hundred anyway . |
| 8 | We have now got him down to 10 pints and a bucket of chips . |
| 9 | She hoped she had n't let him down in any way . |
| 10 | Before he could do anything more another wave lifted him high into the foam-filled wind , then dizzyingly dropped him down into a hole in the ocean . |
| 11 | So the way he 's , is n't it the way he 's dressed for that is fine , but you ca n't send him down to court like that . |
| 12 | He even took him down to the cellars to see the lights and the point for a plug there . |
| 13 | She do n't put him down for a minute , oh he feels insecure and he 's left his mummy and goes love his granny and come on your granny , I think oh carry on ! |
| 14 | We have n't put him down for a nursery school- ! |
| 15 | ‘ Mussed ’ is a word so outmoded I 'm surprised the God of Media did n't strike him down on the instant with a thunderbolt . |
| 16 | While he was there he learnt to fly with the University Air Squadron and was in despair when , on the outbreak of war , the RAF initially turned him down on medical grounds . |
| 17 | Though the Doctor was first out , looking around in calm appraisal , Clairvius Dubois almost knocked him down in his surprisingly sprightly enthusiasm to see what Mait 's home was actually like . |
| 18 | I threw some of the water from the bowl over my own face and drank the rest for I was thirsty , then followed him down to the Great Hall . |
| 19 | The village doctor was one of the house guests ; he and Andy 's father hold the boy up , letting water drain from his mouth , then lay him down on a coat on the snow . |
| 20 | The men then eased him down by taking much of his weight on the rope . |
| 21 | In his second defence of the title , against the man he had beaten to win it in June , Wharton 's awesome blows cut Carr above his left eye and then had him down for a count of eight and unable to defend himself when he regained his feet . |
| 22 | I had never had him down as a kerb-crawler either , but from the state of the car it looked as if it had had a good kicking . |
| 23 | He might not have been able to dodge the water , but they 'd never pinned him down for the Instruction . |
| 24 | NORTHERN Ireland Minister Michael Mates was placed on probation last night after John Major publicly slapped him down in front of MPs . |