Example sentences of "he [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plunged down for an interminable second , arms and legs splayed out in abandon , forgotten , tumbling anyhow , and crashed onto the stage on his back , lying across Bothwell , whose cloak was the colour of blood . |
| 2 | With that , he hopped down from the rock , leaving its previous occupant free rein over the throng . |
| 3 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 4 | Howard ca n't help laughing to himself as he goes down in the lift . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | " 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Likeable , cordial , he sits down in a chair facing her husband and herself and proceeds to converse with them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So this is how it 's going to be , thinks Howard , as he rides down in the lift again . |
| 12 | He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray . |
| 13 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 14 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 15 | He got down off the cart to pick a leaf from a roadside bush , and hoisting himself back into his seat resumed his journey , sucking on the leaf as he started to explain . |
| 16 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
| 17 | There 'll be nobody in at this hour ! ’ he repeated loudly , to the men behind as he got down from the jeep . |
| 18 | He got down from the cab . |
| 19 | He got down from the wall and walked on . |
| 20 | He got down from the jeep and walked into the villa , his shirt crumpled , and his footsteps weary . |
| 21 | He gazed down at the bunker , head bent and quiet , as though paying his respects . |
| 22 | He gazed down at the now peaceful face of the priest . |
| 23 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 24 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 25 | He looks down into the gardens hidden everywhere behind the patched and crumbling walls . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | He glances down at the final layer of glasses . |
| 28 | He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat . |
| 29 | When he was clear of the goat herds and the sheep that grazed around the village , he moved down to the river that was a tributary of the distant Tigris . |
| 30 | Again and again he bore down on the Annamese woman and as his movements quickened he kept his gaze fixed challengingly on Flavia Sherman 's face . |