Example sentences of "he [vb -s] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 3 | Howard ca n't help laughing to himself as he goes down in the lift . |
| 4 | The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair . |
| 5 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 6 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 7 | And so quickly he makes his way to the gate of the city as we 've said , and he gets this man he sits down with the te with the te , with the ten elders who would be witnesses and the kinsman arrives . |
| 8 | Likeable , cordial , he sits down in a chair facing her husband and herself and proceeds to converse with them . |
| 9 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
| 10 | So this is how it 's going to be , thinks Howard , as he rides down in the lift again . |
| 11 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 12 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 13 | He looks down into the gardens hidden everywhere behind the patched and crumbling walls . |
| 14 | He lives down near the bottom of Wind Street , got a shop he has , a well-to-do sort of man , better off than me at any rate . ’ |
| 15 | He glances down at the final layer of glasses . |
| 16 | He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat . |
| 17 | Well he jumps down into the fucking lift shaft and he slipped on i oh eh well you fucking bastard you ! |
| 18 | For every year at midwinter the sun grows weak and pale , and he sinks down into the marshes to spend the long winter night there , and Mokosh , the old witch , his foster-mother , nurses him until he is strong again , with herbs and spells and incantations . |
| 19 | He falls down on the sand . |
| 20 | He pops down to the shop every now and then to make sure things are ticking over . ’ |
| 21 | He descends down to the people , and they form a ring around him . |
| 22 | Hope he comes down with a cold in the next few days . |