Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb past] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way and another he felt let down . |
| 2 | AN insurance clerk told a jury yesterday he was unaware he had run down a mother and her two daughters as he tried to escape from a man in car who had threatened him . |
| 3 | By 10.30 he had gone down the full length of the corridor that ran past his office and he had then spent two and a half hours in H3 's laboratory . |
| 4 | He smelt their fetid breath and tried to control the shuddering of his body , fighting against the nauseous panic which curdled his stomach and made his legs so weak he longed to sit down . |
| 5 | He refused to be roused by her anger , suspecting she was furious he 'd turned down her invitation to stay . |
| 6 | Aged only twenty-four he had held down the post of KGB officer attached to the 502nd Guards Armoured Division stationed at Magdeburg in the German Democratic Republic . |