Example sentences of "[verb] him down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 2 | It was a glimmering he had , but no more than that , and she cast him down from the height of her knowledge . |
| 3 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 4 | James Shaw was given five years for his part in a later plot to kill Stephen Brown by knocking him down with a car . |
| 5 | Well , Marcus said he 'd come and see Pat , and Ludens is driving him down in the Bentley ! |
| 6 | Are you saying that we bundled him down to the waterside and had him hanged ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 9 | The terrified Frankie skidded round the corner wall of the end house and raced as fast as his legs would carry him down towards the walkway gate . |
| 10 | Sheriff George Crozier accused the lawyer of shouting him down during a trial at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court . |
| 11 | I put him down as a schoolboy . |
| 12 | ‘ I have to admit we let him down over the gearbox which was slipping out of sixth gear and we have apologised for that . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He will inundate us with charters — and all because London Transport turned him down for a job . |
| 15 | They 've got him down at the station for questioning . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He began to speak out loud over the sound of the copious running water ; he congratulated himself for not crying in public , he congratulated himself for not getting hurt , for not letting himself be assaulted on the way home , for not letting anyone corner him or get him down on the floor or up against a wall but for keeping walking instead . |
| 18 | He asked the taxi he had taken to put him down at the top of the drift and he had walked to the house . |
| 19 | It 's almost impossible to put him down in the tackle , and there are few players about who you an say that . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And instinctively she reached out her arms as if to circle his neck and draw him down into an imaginary embrace . |
| 22 | Granville Again was out of form with a few niggling problems , so after talking to Michael I decided to let him down for a break then bring him back to his peak for one day — this day . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She was exhausted ; more so because of the alarmed way she had sprung out of reach whenever Guy had become restless , than from the number of times she had sponged him down in an attempt to cool his fever . |
| 26 | He preferred to forget about those , or to pretend to himself that ‘ the real Marie ’ had not sent that bottle crashing into the wall by his head , or hunted him down in the darkness of the tunnels . |
| 27 | She jumped up and thrust him down on the seat , holding his shoulders . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A blow from one of the men holding him knocked him down onto the cobbles . |
| 30 | He might not have been able to dodge the water , but they 'd never pinned him down for the Instruction . |