Example sentences of "he down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terrified Frankie skidded round the corner wall of the end house and raced as fast as his legs would carry him down towards the walkway gate . |
| 2 | A blow from one of the men holding him knocked him down onto the cobbles . |
| 3 | Linden Joseph , the lithe Guyanese who spent a disappointing season with Hampshire in 1990 , might well have won Test selection as well but injury , consistently his nemesis , struck him down during the A series . |
| 4 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 5 | ‘ I have to admit we let him down over the gearbox which was slipping out of sixth gear and we have apologised for that . |
| 6 | Familiarity with the voices that had haunted him down through the years had encouraged a bravado that was little like his real self . |
| 7 | A bell tolled , the sign for Compline , and Lady Amelia led him down through the darkened cloister out across the grass to the church . |
| 8 | ‘ Take him down below the three flights of hurdles , ’ Tremayne said , ‘ then bring him up over them at a useful pace . |
| 9 | Steve was a new face to me but Paul I already knew from playing football against him down at the Lillie Road recreation ground . |
| 10 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 11 | He asked the taxi he had taken to put him down at the top of the drift and he had walked to the house . |
| 12 | And he blames AC Scotland for the sabotaging of his plans to raise a second round of finance by stockbrokers in Europe who let him down at the last minute . |
| 13 | They 've got him down at the station for questioning . |
| 14 | And when she tried several times to pin him down at the office , invariably , as if he were telepathically aware of her intentions , he was elsewhere . |
| 15 | She helped him to the kitchen , as that seemed to be the best place for him for the moment , and sat him down at the kitchen table while she went and got a towel . |
| 16 | He would have been happier if the Latin American had made at least a pretence at attempting to beat him down on the charter price . |
| 17 | He began to speak out loud over the sound of the copious running water ; he congratulated himself for not crying in public , he congratulated himself for not getting hurt , for not letting himself be assaulted on the way home , for not letting anyone corner him or get him down on the floor or up against a wall but for keeping walking instead . |
| 18 | I sat him down on the kerb and called police . ’ |
| 19 | They overpowered him and , while the rest held him down on the pavement , one of them put the razor in the corner of Joyce 's mouth and slit his cheek backwards beyond the ear . |
| 20 | The excitement was very high , and the pressure of the other chimpanzees in the tree forced him down on the ground , where he was greeted by the screaming females . |
| 21 | She jumped up and thrust him down on the seat , holding his shoulders . |
| 22 | He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord . |
| 23 | She held out her hand with deliberate provocation and , drawing him down on the edge of the bed beside her , she gave a little laugh which came from deep in her throat . |
| 24 | Blood-red were his spurs i " the golden noon ; wine-red was his velvet coat ; When they shot him down on the highway , |
| 25 | ‘ Mussed ’ is a word so outmoded I 'm surprised the God of Media did n't strike him down on the instant with a thunderbolt . |
| 26 | Nick set him down on the terrace and he rushed indoors . |
| 27 | He wo n't , he wa he , I had him down on the |
| 28 | Blood , blood red were his spurs , moon , rhymed red with his velvet coat , when they shot him down on the highway , down like a dog on the highway , and he lay in his blood on the highway , with a bunch of lace at his throat . |
| 29 | Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office . |
| 30 | He might not have been able to dodge the water , but they 'd never pinned him down for the Instruction . |