Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that it was when he got turned down for the job of a bus conductor . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | He got sold down the line . |
| 4 | He a attended courses , and on a couple of occasions he 'd travelled down with another officer to collect prisoners . |
| 5 | I half got up , then I looked at the hole he 'd gone down and at the paper in my hand . |
| 6 | He 'd gone down to Atlanta to watch the Democratic Party select its presidential candidate , and at night he went dancing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Perhaps he 'd gone down to Somerset to see his mother . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | He refused to be roused by her anger , suspecting she was furious he 'd turned down her invitation to stay . |
| 11 | Then he looked it up and found it was some priceless Tsarist cross he 'd turned down . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Word spread : Osvaldo had died of malaria ; he 'd been shot in the back by X. Ray ; he 'd fallen down a cliff . |
| 14 | He 'd jumped down , engaging in combat with a huge Mameluke . |
| 15 | He 'd calmed down . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | He 'd calmed down tha |
| 19 | 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 … |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He worked on the buses when he arrived , showed me a canopy in front of a hotel that he 'd brought down on his first solo drive . |
| 22 | ‘ What 's in your piece ? ’ he asked after he 'd sat down . |
| 23 | He 'd gone over to the hedge that ran along each side of the white lodge and he 'd sat down . |
| 24 | She was silent until he 'd sat down . |
| 25 | To Tony was telling me that er he was asked that Walsall needed the money so he was asked to be transferred to Port Vale , which he did but er I think he was past his best and he , he 'd came down back here and played a couple of times with Port Vale , and er but erm like I say he was past his best . |
| 26 | He 'd settled down . |
| 27 | He 'd been happy here ; he 'd settled down and loved the new life he led . |
| 28 | Even before the film had wound on , he 'd looked down and away , so that I could see only his forehead and his grey hair ; and within two seconds , he 'd walked towards the grandstand and out of my line of vision . |
| 29 | A little later , he 'd looked down avenues of faces , hoping it might be Helen . |
| 30 | The way he 'd looked down at her breasts so suddenly in that lift … oh , God , it made her tremble with heat and excitement just to remember it . |