Example sentences of "himself down [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken so long … it had taken two young ensigns , a native pensioner and a Eurasian clerk to lift him up to this platform , and now he would have to get himself down again ! |
| 2 | He swung himself down easily from branch to branch and landed lightly on the tussocky grass , drawing his sword . |
| 3 | He was built like a brick shithouse and he plonked himself down right in front of the stage . |
| 4 | He has let himself down badly . |
| 5 | Like someone pulling a blanket over his head and defying nature to do its worst , he sank and pushed himself down as far as he could go . |
| 6 | As Gabriel took his seat at the top of the pageant , hidden by a wooden cloud , Garvey robed himself down below in the Mason 's wedding robe , and Izzie emerged from nowhere to mend the tear in the shoulder-seam . |
| 7 | ‘ He can hear us laughing and he 's all by himself down there . ’ |
| 8 | Then he lay down again carefully , putting his hand and arm on the far side of the body and easing himself down so that he was partly lying on Patrick , his trunk upon his trunk , his legs upon his legs , and , as he supported himself on his arms , his face just above the skeleton face . |