Example sentences of "he [verb] down [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My earliest memory of my father is of him galloping down a field ; my last is of him reaching out to me like a helpless kitten ’ |
| 2 | A person who is allowed to enter one part of a building only , will become a trespasser if he enters another part " When you invite a person into your house to use the stairs you do not invite him to slide down the bannisters " ( The Calgarth [ 1927 ] P 93 per Scrutton LJ ) . |
| 3 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 4 | You have to get him wound down a bit , you have to do it , you know of a about half an hour or so ask him for the proper name ! |
| 5 | Churchill 's ‘ overlords ’ certainly enabled him to slim down the Cabinet to sixteen members . |
| 6 | You could hear him shouting down the telephone halfway down the road . |
| 7 | ‘ Intimidation is his game , and at one stage I had to tell him to calm down a bit . ’ |
| 8 | Wright lost his infamous temper , picked up a booking and Monkou said : ‘ Intimidation is his game and at one stage I had to tell him to calm down a bit . ’ |
| 9 | Philip ran down the bracken bank to the gate and watched him run down the field to Mrs Wright who was walking slowly down the field . |
| 10 | His career was not without its less attractive moments , and it is sad that many fans will remember the famous picture in the 1981 Wisden of him kicking down the stumps after having an appeal refused in New Zealand almost as readily as they will recall his wonderful bowling ; yet even in dissent he was physically graceful , and the picture is positively balletic . |
| 11 | She turned to watch him disappear down the ladder . |
| 12 | He fell forward , as a result of which there was a crowd surge and the people in front of him stumbled down the terraces . |
| 13 | Philip saw him go down the village towards the church . |
| 14 | The taxi dropped off one of the passengers , and the offenders instructed the driver to take them to a farm club , and then asked him to turn down a farm track . |
| 15 | It disturbed him to think of her father perhaps waking to hear him tiptoe down the passage like a shifty thief afraid of discovery . |
| 16 | Shadows of it still remained at his trial , two years later ; although his lawyer had evidently advised him to tone down the certitude of righteousness , it would slip out . |
| 17 | And Hayling had told him to tone down the politics to smooth away advertisers ' fears that it was going to be a Commie rag . |
| 18 | She said that it did not matter whether or not he knew Alexander Atkins and instructed him to take down a message for him . |
| 19 | She rolled onto her side to let him pull down the zip of her dress . |
| 20 | She could almost feel him smiling down the line . |
| 21 | In a March speech at the Hotel Cecil he laid down a plan of submitting food taxes — the most controversial item — to a referendum . |
| 22 | He laid down the letter at breakfast with a white face . |
| 23 | Without waiting for the others he plunged down the bank into the stream , slipping and slithering heedlessly over the protruding roots and rocks . |
| 24 | But with 15 minutes left Dyer gave the visitors some hope when he chested down a cross and struck a strong shot past Muggleton from close range . |
| 25 | In one letter to Susanna Highmore , he turns down the offer of a sonnet to be prefixed to Leapor 's second volume : |
| 26 | He passed down the gallery , the sound growing fainter . |
| 27 | But he goes down a treat at the annual summer conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 28 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |
| 29 | Beefy is a hero to the thousands that turn out to see him through rain and shine as he marches down the south coast . |
| 30 | But he got down the pit , after you know whe after the War . |