Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got sold down the line . |
| 2 | ‘ He has gone down a treat with the members , who have a lot of affection for him , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Most important of all he has run down a number of performances previously unknown . |
| 4 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |
| 5 | So far he has tracked down the chemical 3-methyl-2-hexenoic acid . |
| 6 | Talking about his future , Keith says that he has turned down an approach from Rugby and it 's up to Gloucester now whether they keep him on . |
| 7 | He has dumped down the notes for a greyhound , has given his heart to the beast , and is derided for this by his friends in the pub . |
| 8 | He has put down a Commons motion condemning the Defence Secretary for ‘ the arbitrary action which he is taking to extinguish the ancient rights of common [ … ] for political reasons to prevent the women 's peace camp from continuing their peaceful demonstrations ’ . |
| 9 | In Peter 's case he has put down a marker for next year , when he will still be young enough to try . |
| 10 | Word spread : Osvaldo had died of malaria ; he 'd been shot in the back by X. Ray ; he 'd fallen down a cliff . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 15 | AN insurance clerk told a jury yesterday he was unaware he had run down a mother and her two daughters as he tried to escape from a man in car who had threatened him . |
| 16 | He had run down the long corridors to the lounge and arrived just as the shuttle passengers were disembarking . |
| 17 | Manager Trevor Francis confirmed yesterday that he had turned down the huge offer from Toulon . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When he was out with a group of other kids , playing kick-the-can or soldiers , he would often sneak away , so that they would never find him , or think he had fallen down a hole or into a burn or a loch . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | " Just want to see the set-up my little girlie 's embarked on , " he had said down the telephone . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Five minutes later he had slithered down the sandy cliffs , a mug of tea slopping in each hand . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Edward had dropped the whole cargo of gifts by the time he had got down the twenty iron rungs of the ladder . |
| 26 | The day had been rainy and wet so Barrymore saw the prints left by Sir Charles ' shoes as he had walked down the Alley . |
| 27 | On Friday night after he had pulled down the blind Dan Salmon handed over five sovereigns to Charlie along with several wafers of matzos . |
| 28 | A true story — albeit hard to believe — was that , fearing the devaluation of the currency , he had melted down a considerable quantity of silver coin and buried the ingots in the grounds of the Park . |
| 29 | When he had wolfed down a few chapattis and an onion bhaji , Amiss took a slurp of lager and then leaned back . |
| 30 | Aged only twenty-four he had held down the post of KGB officer attached to the 502nd Guards Armoured Division stationed at Magdeburg in the German Democratic Republic . |