Example sentences of "he [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He made his way along the road until a colleague told him to sit down on the pavement . |
| 2 | He slung his cloak of feathers over the staff and Scathach helped him to sit down in the slight shelter that this garment offered . |
| 3 | Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it . |
| 4 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |
| 5 | He was very normal , you could see him walking down to the bank Monday to Friday , but he 's got this completely eccentric side to him . ’ |
| 6 | The industrialist MP Samuel Morley and others persuaded him to stand down on the grounds that ministers should not directly enter the political arena and Morley paid all his expenses when he gave up the contest . |
| 7 | Executive members of one of the party 's most active branches , Mossend , confirmed yesterday they had written to Mr Salmond asking him to stand down as a result of the MPs ' decision to strike a deal with the Conservatives in exchange for their votes on the Maastricht bill . |
| 8 | One view saw Suharto 's motive in encouraging greater activism on the part of Golkar as an attempt to acquire a reforming image to help counteract pressure on him to stand down before the 1993 election . |
| 9 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 10 | ‘ Tell you what , see if you can persuade him to come down for an X-ray . |
| 11 | Meantime , he reminded himself , since the entire company was now assembled , he had better be about sending off Father Boniface 's errand-boy to find Aldhelm at Upton among his sheep , and ask him to come down to the abbey when his work for the day was over , and pick out his shadowy Benedictine from among a number now complete . |
| 12 | Did they want him to crack down on the rioters ? |
| 13 | One morning , Santa found him lying down on the snow , staring at a dead flower with tears dropping off his little cheeks . |
| 14 | He collected his boarding card and found a seat in the cafeteria that allowed him to look down on the concourse . |
| 15 | The thief then bound his feet , wrists and mouth with tape and left him face down on the office floor before making off with the money in Barry 's car . |
| 16 | He became adept at launching himself over the canoe 's side ; first leaning back with legs outstretched athwart the cockpit , a quick flip of the body brought him face down towards the water before lowering himself onto it . |
| 17 | Officers found him face down in the undergrowth minutes after his wife reported him missing on Wednesday night . |
| 18 | ‘ Bastard , ’ growled Lofty , ‘ they 'll find him face down in the river one of these days , the way he 's goin on . ’ |
| 19 | The handshake was a stupid idea as she was still holding Darren , but she let him slide down to the floor and we shook . |
| 20 | Only he knew what an effort it cost him to climb down from a helideck onto a drilling rig . |
| 21 | At the most extreme , Pascale ( 1984 : 65 ) suggests that rationality as such is an ethnocentric cul-de-sac , and the standard business-journal exercise of learning-from-the-Japanese for him boils down to a flight from rationality and emulating the inspired but erratic hit-or-miss business behaviour of Soichiro Honda . |
| 22 | ‘ Good , Fox is on remand in Saughton , I 'll get him brought down for an ID parade , Strathclyde will bring Dalton through for us . |
| 23 | Then I heard him call down from the attic for me to open the stairs door wide . |
| 24 | I thought , when I heard him coming down through the bushes , it could be no one but Tutilo . |
| 25 | Perhaps you can make another batch when we see him coming down from the moor-edge , ’ she suggested to her mother . |
| 26 | Nell helped him to lie down on a blanket , supporting his head with another . |
| 27 | I ca n't see him sitting down for a quiet civilized three cornered discussion . ’ |
| 28 | If he was the Christ , the King of Israel , then let him come down from the cross and convince people . |
| 29 | I helped him sit down on the one centre thwart and arranged his legs as comfortably as possible , Harry cursing and wincing by turns . |
| 30 | You know , she made him sit down in the middle in front of everybody you see |