Example sentences of "he [verb] down [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 4 | Only he knew what an effort it cost him to climb down from a helideck onto a drilling rig . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nell helped him to lie down on a blanket , supporting his head with another . |
| 7 | I ca n't see him sitting down for a quiet civilized three cornered discussion . ’ |
| 8 | Likeable , cordial , he sits down in a chair facing her husband and herself and proceeds to converse with them . |
| 9 | He sank down into a chair opposite Hari . |
| 10 | He knelt down by a familiar mound and after a moment 's hesitation yanked out the cross that he had placed at the head of the grave . |
| 11 | ( Years later , he came down to a jam with The Pistols when I thought we needed a keyboard player . |
| 12 | He came down with a First and started his civil service career in the humble surroundings of the National Assistance Board . |
| 13 | He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again . |
| 14 | He went back for the woman pedestrian he knocked down near a busy roundabout and helped her into his white Sierra car . |
| 15 | A college lecturer in Redcar was reduced to a nervous wreck and had to call the police to get rid of salesmen while in Northallerton a salesman suggested he bedded down on a couple 's sofa while they slept on £5,000 offer . |
| 16 | He looked across , smiled , winked at her , and said ‘ Hi there … er = ’ He glanced down at a sheet in front of him . |
| 17 | When we adjourned to the lounge , he glanced down at a newspaper that had been cast aside , commenting in a murmur : ‘ the usual half-finished crossword ! ’ |
| 18 | After a while his initial panic died down and he settled down into a steadier gallop , still with his head turned to the outside . |
| 19 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 20 | The dragon heaved a huge sigh of relief and politely turned his head to let out a huge smoky belch ; then he settled down for a dragon-like snooze . |
| 21 | His chest felt as if it was going to burst and he felt sick and dizzy as he settled down to a steady plod . |
| 22 | Emily ignored him and he slumped down in a chair , trying to catch her eye . |
| 23 | Cupping his hands round his mouth , he called down in a loud whisper . |
| 24 | However , he went down to a promising Dubliner Noel Higgins of Glasnevin 13–11 . |
| 25 | I hit the gunman right between the windows of his soul and he went down with a lot of sparks and technoflash that I for one was n't expecting . |
| 26 | He went down on a loose ball and my boot landed on him . |
| 27 | The Rothmans Honda team member broke his right leg in five places when he went down for a second time during the opening championship round on a wet Suzuka circuit . |
| 28 | But even when he was surrounded he continued to lay about him with his sword , and then with an axe when his sword broke , until he went down from a blow to the head . |
| 29 | Beating a similarly ornamented one-sided drum with a fur-covered stick , the shaman chanted and danced with increasing frenzy until he fell down in a trance . |
| 30 | As he reached it , the ground fell away from under him and he rolled down into a deep ditch . |