Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] her down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to say something humorous without being a smart-ass or putting her down in any way . |
| 2 | He bowed , kissed her hand , and led her down to the courtyard where their carriage waited . |
| 3 | He came through the door and he backed Cati against the rough wall of the hideout and rammed his pelvis against her stomach and pinned her down with one hand flat against her chest and with the other drew his belt through the loops of his soldier 's jacket and slashed her across the face with the buckle doubled against the leather . |
| 4 | As Ann Butler led Sarah towards the stairs , to help her out of her wet clothes and rub her down with dry towels , Jonadab seized her hand in both his . |
| 5 | Two arms caught her and drew her down into warmth and security as she continued to cry into the comfort of her husband 's chest . |
| 6 | He apologized and helped her down at the end of the road . |
| 7 | I was told they sent for a nurse who came at me with a needle so I grabbed her by the breast and threw her down on the hors d'oeuvres . |
| 8 | We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House . |
| 9 | Well , Herman Schrijver says he will hire a car when the warm weather comes and drive her down to lunch with me in the Green Belt … . |
| 10 | By the time we got her address and tracked her down to some miserable tower block in Hackney , discovered she did n't know any English and found someone who could speak Gujarati , it was late afternoon . ’ |
| 11 | She held onto Mrs Corney 's arm and pulled her down towards her . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps this will jog your memory ! ’ he warned , and with an economy of movement had taken her seat and pulled her down across his knees . |
| 13 | With a deep groan he reached up and pulled her down beside him . |
| 14 | They took her into the living room and put her down on a sofa . |
| 15 | He walked slowly , however , to make the journey as long as possible , and put her down on dry land . |
| 16 | He carried her across the corridor and put her down on the bed . |
| 17 | He shoved her through the door , slammed it , and forced her down towards a hole in the wall . |
| 18 | As I considered whether to smash her and throw her down on the mountainside , I caught her scent . |
| 19 | This strange , remote , eagle creature , whose body was bathed in incandescence from the fire , except that it was not quite the fire ; whose eyes were dark with passion , and whose arms , strong and safe , were enveloping her , and laying her down on the thick fur rugs before the fire … |
| 20 | He sat on the settee and tugged her down beside him , leaning over and sniffing her hair . |
| 21 | Once Astrid had taken her shopping ( she was about four at the time ) and set her down on a stool by a counter when she tried on earrings in a round mirror on a stand ; a salesgirl with a promotional tray of perfumes approached her and Astrid turned and extended her wrist to sample it . |
| 22 | Skinner released Nina from his protection and set her down in an armchair . |
| 23 | She went to sleep , she was so heavy that he thought he could barely carry her another step but he got her home and set her down in the warmth of the kitchen . |
| 24 | On the spectator 's left ( fig. 127 ) a Lapith drags down a Centaur who with right hand against the ground resists the pressure while his left is still buried in a woman 's hair and drags her down with him as she claws at his beard with back-stretched hand . |
| 25 | Then he bundled her now rosy body into her dry shirt and sat her down on the sleeping-bag to vigorously rub her hair dry . |
| 26 | Mick came and made some tea and sat her down with a cup in her hands and tried to talk some sense into her . |
| 27 | She propelled her to a low wall and sat her down beside her suitcase . |
| 28 | Her mother had bathed her in the tin bath in front of the kitchen fire , had dried her and sat her down before the fire with a bowl of steaming hot broth . |