Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] down the " in BNC.

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1 He strolled along by the front of the house until he reached the north wing , where he turned down the grassy slope towards the trees .
2 Oh well , she said , you see , it 's my work , she said I work in a , in an insurance office and she said I 'm in and out the courts all the time , you see so he knocked down the wrong person
3 He picked up the bird and noticed it had a ring on its leg , so he wrote down the number and passed the information on to me .
4 Mr Maxmilian Frizzell had never read a book since leaving school and did not know who Lawrence was , so he put down the newspaper and took up the Car Dealer and Garageman with what dignity he could muster .
5 I tell ya , so I think we got out , we got our hair done and she wanted to go down to the mission so the hairdresser phoned a different taxi , we have this one up here , he took her down from there to the mission , cos he went down the back ways , you know ,
6 Mooney scored the goal of the game when he burst down the left and hit a low shot into the far corner .
7 A BUSINESSMAN 'S van was purring when he drove down the A1 in East Lothian .
8 When he came down the alley toward the club 's stage door he could see that there were three rough-looking teenagers who 'd clambered up the side of one of the big waste bins and were lifting stuff around inside .
9 When he drew down the top of the blanket Laura gave a cry , staggering where she stood .
10 I am employing the kind of argument that has been used to resist demands that God prove Himself by miraculous interventions of some form — demands that in Christian tradition Christ himself refused to satisfy when he turned down the Pharisees ' request for a ‘ sign ’ and asked that they have faith instead .
11 He had , in a way , shown her the path , as Hansel did when he put down the pebbles which guided his sister and himself back home .
12 But when he put down the phone , he was wearing what Celia called his crisis face .
13 When he put down the phone , he said , " Really , sir , you make me feel that I 'm behaving like a suspect . "
14 When he put down the papers at last he looked abstracted .
15 He began to recite a litany of his own successes to himself as he passed down the quiet , thickly carpeted corridors to the executive lift that went up to the eighteenth floor : a new apartment in the smart suburb of Beauséjour ; a smaller apartment in Montparnasse , with a most accommodating young mistress ; two cars , one the largest and latest registration Citroën Familiale ; a generous expense account , which was not queried too closely — he hoped was not queried too closely .
16 Following on this sixth behind Gold Options , he ran in the Troytown Chase at Navan but showed little as he finished down the field behind Roberts Rhapsody .
17 She thought he appeared nervous as he wound down the window .
18 Over the wall , Frear had come in and was talking to one of the waiters as he wiped down the outside tables .
19 She watched him through her fingers as he went down the garden and bent over the hole .
20 As he went down the avenue her figure in its sky-blue dress was framed in the driving mirror , an indelible imprint .
21 The Duke had cause for worry , yet as he strolled down the rue Royale he was forced to put a brave face on the desperate odds lest his enemies took courage from his despair.The Duke could also cling to one strong hope , namely that his scratch army would not fight Napoleon alone , but alongside Prince Blücher 's Prussians .
22 He tossed her shorts away , then sat up and looked at her with desire-darkened eyes as he tugged down the zip on his own shorts and flung them away .
23 ‘ Silly cow , ’ he breathed , as he ran down the bank into the yard , ‘ she 'll probably go cold on me while I 'm buggering about over here . ’
24 As he leaped down the stair he was shouting for Farquhar Neas , and whisky to take a foul taste from his mouth .
25 A SCHOOLBOY was robbed of his mountain bike as he pedalled down the hard shoulder of a motorway to get help after his dad 's car broke down .
26 ‘ Ah , ’ Karl shook his head as he looked down the avenue .
27 As he strode down the 18th in the morning alongside Parry , the pair looking like the leaders of the Lilliput Open , he appeared every inch of his 64 ( to Parry 's 66 ) a champion .
28 The man stripping off his helmet as he strode down the room was tall and broad-shouldered , and moved with the leashed power of the hunter .
29 What could be wrong with him , that his friend 's bowing should irritate him so , that Tommaso 's frank fond greeting of his mother should seem to him so casually proprietary , that his instant engagement in argument with his father , as he drank down the dash of grenadine cordial he was offered before they began eating , should strike such a false note ?
30 ‘ Thought I raised a wench with a bit o' sense , ’ sniffed the old man as he trundled down the garden path with his wheelbarrow full of tools .
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