Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he made to step down from the verandah he heard a footfall behind him and turned to find Lepine , already immaculate in his white suit , ready to leave . |
| 2 | I was astonished that he agreed to come down with you . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | " Having fun ? " he asked looking down on her . |
| 5 | I think that it was when he got turned down for the job of a bus conductor . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ Yanto began hastily , ‘ I was told he got pinned down for a week in no-man 's land during the battle of the Somme in 1916 . |
| 7 | He got sold down the line . |
| 8 | When his father , frustrated after years as a POW , returned , he tried to lay down the law . |
| 9 | We did all right until we got to the last bit and I got my foot caught in Otley 's pocket when he tried to bend down , he fell and flung me over his head knocking my wig skew-whiff . |
| 10 | It is thought that he tried to lie down to sleep — he normally slept sitting up , propped against pillows — and suffocated . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Today , with another climber , he tried to climb down to Camp 3 , but his snow blindness forced them both to turn back . |
| 13 | He yearned to gulp down the coffee that remained , he craved to ask for more . |
| 14 | He a attended courses , and on a couple of occasions he 'd travelled down with another officer to collect prisoners . |
| 15 | I half got up , then I looked at the hole he 'd gone down and at the paper in my hand . |
| 16 | He 'd gone down to Atlanta to watch the Democratic Party select its presidential candidate , and at night he went dancing . |
| 17 | His legs had buckled and knocked , a comic effect , and he 'd gone down too soon for his partner to see the ugly roundel that had begun to form on the white tennis shirt . |
| 18 | Perhaps he 'd gone down to Somerset to see his mother . |
| 19 | and he was let out and first , within twenty four hours he 'd gone down to the South Coast and killed his mother and his girl friend |
| 20 | He refused to be roused by her anger , suspecting she was furious he 'd turned down her invitation to stay . |
| 21 | Then he looked it up and found it was some priceless Tsarist cross he 'd turned down . |
| 22 | Even before Saturday Night and Sunday Morning pushed him to the front of young British actors , he 'd turned down post-RADA contracts with Rank and Associated British Pictures Corporation . |
| 23 | Word spread : Osvaldo had died of malaria ; he 'd been shot in the back by X. Ray ; he 'd fallen down a cliff . |
| 24 | He 'd jumped down , engaging in combat with a huge Mameluke . |
| 25 | He 'd calmed down . |
| 26 | By the time he arrived for Troon for the 1973 British Open , he 'd calmed down altogether ; he could n't do enough for me . |
| 27 | When he 'd calmed down she said : ‘ If whores do n't get no respect they should at least get paid the rate for the job . ’ |
| 28 | He 'd calmed down tha |
| 29 | He did n't look as if he 'd driven down here with business matters on his mind … last night 's happenings , even in this fraught atmosphere , swirled back into her mind to torment her … |
| 30 | She met Penry 's favourite sister Kit and her husband , Reid Livesey , ate some supper , laughed and chatted with more of Penry 's friends , and all the time she burned with the need to ask Penry what he was playing at , why he 'd thrown down his unexpected announcement like a gauntlet in front of his voluptuous ex-wife . |