Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time he expected to touch down the aircraft suddenly ‘ pulled down to his left ’ , he felt the back of the aircraft buckle and was aware of debris coming through the canopy . |
| 2 | He got sold down the line . |
| 3 | When his father , frustrated after years as a POW , returned , he tried to lay down the law . |
| 4 | He tried to break down the father-role position doctors held , so the patients could feel more relaxed and see him almost as an equal . |
| 5 | He yearned to gulp down the coffee that remained , he craved to ask for more . |
| 6 | The four men looked up as he came scrambling down the steep bank . |
| 7 | When Mr Tomlinson had changed the train indicator board on the EMU for its return journey , he turned to look down the platform . |
| 8 | Sharpe spurred down to the crossroads , touched his hat to the old ladies who were staring with alarm at the two horsemen , then he turned to gaze down the long southwards road that led to Charleroi . |
| 9 | He shouted her name , but she only let him in after he threatened to kick down the door . |
| 10 | Ho 's voice was as sharp as Tina 's as , with sudden determination , he began to slither down the cold , wet , acrid-smelling earth . |
| 11 | When he had rolled a bundle together he began to take down the tent , grabbing at the guy ropes . |
| 12 | ‘ Thank God , ’ he muttered , as he started to scramble down the last foot or two to seize the halter shank that dangled so near , and yet just out of his reach . |
| 13 | The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before . |
| 14 | He had to go down the mines and he stuck it out . |
| 15 | Phil , who graduated in Physics in 1987 , invited fellow students and staff to take part in the sponsored abseil and received such a positive response that he had to take down the posters advertising the idea after 48 people volunteered . |
| 16 | ‘ Boy ’ Mould had served in France with 1 Squadron in 1939/40 , where he had shot down the first German aircraft to be claimed by R.A.F. fighters over the Western Front ; he had over eight victories to his credit at this time . |
| 17 | Remember that he says he then , in his fright at what he had done , went to peer at his victim , and found that he had struck down the wrong man . |
| 18 | ‘ So you are saying plainly , ’ said Earl Robert , attentive and still , ‘ that there were two murderers , at least in intent , and this wretched brother , once he knew he had struck down the wrong man , had no reason in the world to wish him further harm . ’ |
| 19 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 20 | He had run down the long corridors to the lounge and arrived just as the shuttle passengers were disembarking . |
| 21 | Manager Trevor Francis confirmed yesterday that he had turned down the huge offer from Toulon . |
| 22 | Because his wife did not want to move house he had turned down the job of guarding Ted Heath in the Close at Salisbury ; he had been given Margaret instead . |
| 23 | By 10.30 he had gone down the full length of the corridor that ran past his office and he had then spent two and a half hours in H3 's laboratory . |
| 24 | l here were about a dozen customers , mostly middle-aged men sitting alone reading Evening Standards who only troubled the barman to the extent that occasionally he had to turn down the corner of a page of his Stephen King paperback . |
| 25 | " Just want to see the set-up my little girlie 's embarked on , " he had said down the telephone . |
| 26 | He made several internal calls then announced , somewhat relieved , that he had tracked down the porter who had overseen the off-loading of the freight train the previous day . |
| 27 | Five minutes later he had slithered down the sandy cliffs , a mug of tea slopping in each hand . |
| 28 | He had set down the bag of washing on the floor between his feet , for she had n't been able to manage the washing since last year 's fall . |
| 29 | Edward had dropped the whole cargo of gifts by the time he had got down the twenty iron rungs of the ladder . |
| 30 | The day had been rainy and wet so Barrymore saw the prints left by Sir Charles ' shoes as he had walked down the Alley . |