Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [vb past] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were usually made by the miner at home and one can just imagine a man sitting comfortably at the kitchen table , with a bag of gunpowder which he had ground down , pile of straws , a tiny paper funnel , and puffing away on his pipe ! |
| 2 | By early January 1945 , observers in the Stuttgart area were pointing out that Mein Kampf was being — rather belatedly — cited to prove that Germany had itself to blame for the war , that Hitler 's expansionist aims which he had laid down twenty years earlier were the cause of the war , and that it was therefore clear that ‘ the Führer has worked for war from the very beginning ’ . |
| 3 | However hard she tried to climb into his mind and find out what was going on in there , she never seemed to get beyond that barrier which he had laid down . |
| 4 | He had half turned to walk to his car , which he had left down by the jetty , when we heard the sound of a horn , pressed just once — not to warn us against danger but to attract our attention . |
| 5 | I cleared the gun and fired at the Corporal , the burst hitting him in the chest and knocking him backwards into a line of sheets which he brought winding down around him . |
| 6 | Lt. Mietusch reported engaging eight Hurricanes , one of which he claimed shot down at 1845 , the pilot baling out . |
| 7 | To appreciate the extent of his achievement in extricating France from Algeria , one must recognize what he preferred to play down in his memoirs , namely the colossal constraints under which he operated . |