Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | He repudiated the oath by which he had restored to the Holy See the ecclesiastical rights and privileges enjoyed by the emperors and the kings of Sicily and within a few months of his coronation he began to progress down into Italy . |
| 2 | While sailing back from Cancun to San Paul Key he had put down on paper what he knew in the hope that a pattern would appear . |
| 3 | In the winter he had gone down with a slight burst of influenza and anyone would have thought it was the plague . |
| 4 | Duroc looked over the reports from the engineers he had sent down into the dry sewers . |
| 5 | ‘ He chopped and changed the side at whim and never allowed any team he selected to settle down and establish a set pattern of play . ’ |
| 6 | At one point he had to slow down for a distance of several miles . |
| 7 | He could have basked in the illusion of being a benevolent father-figure to his people , actually loved and appreciated and secure in the knowledge that even after he went , things would go on along the tracks he had laid down . |
| 8 | He said 18 parliamentary questions he had put down remained unanswered , after the Prime Minister claimed that all the financial details of the car company 's sale to British Aerospace had been released . |
| 9 | With a veiled smile he had glanced down at the locket . |
| 10 | Without waiting for direction from his captor he had sat down , his overcoat , muddy and stained , pulled around him for warmth , and his bowler hat , the crease of a dent in its crown , clamped on his head . |
| 11 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |
| 12 | I half got up , then I looked at the hole he 'd gone down and at the paper in my hand . |
| 13 | During my son 's teenage years he spent his life like a hobo , sleeping-bag packed into his satchel in case he wanted to doss down on a schoolfriend 's floor somewhere . |
| 14 | and he was let out and first , within twenty four hours he 'd gone down to the South Coast and killed his mother and his girl friend |
| 15 | Peter picked up the exercise book and slipped it into the box he had brought down from the loft . |
| 16 | Then he was climbing back up the bank he had slithered down and I watched as he walked in a leisurely fashion across the slope of the mountain to the gully . |
| 17 | The doctor sounded her chest , asking questions about the pain , and all the time trying to keep a sober , professional look though his hands were trembling and in the end he had to sit down to conceal his excitement . |
| 18 | The way he 'd looked down at her breasts so suddenly in that lift … oh , God , it made her tremble with heat and excitement just to remember it . |
| 19 | Outside the hotel he had fought down misgivings at the idea of allowing an old man to drag him through the streets when he could easily have walked , and he began to wonder if he should dismount . |
| 20 | Again , while Nicholas was having breakfast he kept getting down from his place , and his mother followed him round with a bowl of cereal , feeding him with a spoonful whenever she could . |
| 21 | ‘ Here , ’ she said gently , pushing forward the stool he had set down . |
| 22 | Because his wife did not want to move house he had turned down the job of guarding Ted Heath in the Close at Salisbury ; he had been given Margaret instead . |
| 23 | By the time he had rushed down in an elevator and emerged on the track , the other two medallists had received their medals — and the national anthem was being played without anybody on the gold medal podium . |
| 24 | Blake could n't remember the last time he had sat down . |
| 25 | Edward had dropped the whole cargo of gifts by the time he had got down the twenty iron rungs of the ladder . |
| 26 | At the time he expected to touch down the aircraft suddenly ‘ pulled down to his left ’ , he felt the back of the aircraft buckle and was aware of debris coming through the canopy . |
| 27 | He a attended courses , and on a couple of occasions he 'd travelled down with another officer to collect prisoners . |
| 28 | Then he looked it up and found it was some priceless Tsarist cross he 'd turned down . |