Example sentences of "down [prep] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest . |
| 2 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 3 | Down behind him in the straggly little valley , I notice that a few allotments do remain , after all . |
| 4 | Then , gently , he pulled her down with him into a nest of long fragrant grasses . |
| 5 | He had pulled her down with him into the whirlpool of love , and now that she was submerged and drowning he had left her , escaping through the cloaking mist that hung over the water . |
| 6 | He relaxed his death-hold on me and made me sit down with him on a convenient bench . |
| 7 | He looked up at her and smiled and she lay down with him on the grass in the sun . |
| 8 | Ferryman had kipped down with him for a while , till one night , turning over in his sleep , Jackie had given him such a clout with the iron boot it nearly took his hip off . |
| 9 | A thousand windows , some reflecting the dying light of the day , stared down with him at the trampled earth , the lines of washing-poles , the puddles . |
| 10 | Fergus had motioned him to sit down with him behind the hide , and to keep quiet . |
| 11 | You see , we 'd got such confidence that she told me that when he died , she said , ‘ He died in his bed here ’ , that we were in , you see ; and she said , ‘ I then closed his eyes and I laid down with him till the morning so that nobody should be disturbed . ’ |
| 12 | I think of another man , to whom I had said something about Jesus Christ while marching down alongside him to an army parade ! |
| 13 | He went straight over to Brian , saying , ‘ So , you want escape ? ’ and started raining blows down on him with a stick . |
| 14 | He turned and saw the waiter bearing down on him with an anxious look on his face . |
| 15 | Easily distinguishable in his bird-lime-encrusted shirt and shorts , he often had a look in his eye that spoke of clouds and freedom , rather than the shin-splitting hordes bearing down on him in the shape of the Corton Heath Corinthians . |
| 16 | Oh , hello … ’ the Doctor replied , not able to tell who was bearing down on him in the fog . |
| 17 | Indeed , there were times when his gratitude pressed down on him like a crushing burden slumped across his shoulders . |
| 18 | She was bearing down on him like a bull in full charge when he jumped the wide steps and with a cry of terror threw himself against the front door of the house . |
| 19 | ‘ Now I wo n't come down on him like a ton of bricks if he misses chances but I do n't want to see him becoming uptight and letting other aspects of his game suffer if things do n't go right — as against Norway . |
| 20 | If anyone was coming here to do some subversive overthrowing , everyone 'd be down on him like a pound of bricks as soon as he answered ‘ Yes ’ . ’ |
| 21 | And the committee could have come down on him like a ton of bricks . |
| 22 | Small boys spat down on him from the safety of high windows and their mothers clenched their buttocks and turned away their glowing cheeks . |
| 23 | In Dennant v. Skinner ( 1948 K.B. ) the buyer had a van knocked down to him at an auction . |
| 24 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 25 | What decisions , made arbitrarily and in anger , would be handed down to him in the morning ? |
| 26 | ‘ Changed days , Piper ! ’ remarked Jimmy , as I sat down beside him on a bale of hay . |
| 27 | Nicolo grinned as he drew her down beside him on a marble bench . |
| 28 | She sat down beside him on the cool grass . |
| 29 | Cadfael shepherded his charge within , and watched him subside gratefully on to the narrow cot , and sit there mute for a moment , laying his burden down beside him with a kind of caressing gentleness . |
| 30 | You 're letting in a draught , ’ whispered Izzie , sitting down beside him in the tail of the wagon . |