Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So perhaps to imagine the postman 's work in isolation is to imagine him walking down a street posting letters , or at least sealed envelopes , but imagining the houses as mere facades , with no rooms or people behind . |
| 2 | No employer will willingly train a craftsman only to see him go down the road to work for another employer who has invested nothing in training . |
| 3 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 4 | Kurt is showing me his glasses which , along with his new hairstyle , are supposed to enable him to walk down the street unrecognised . |
| 5 | Try to stop him falling down the road . |
| 6 | And yet what was there to stop him walking down the hill that very morning and putting the question to Martha ? |