Example sentences of "him down the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Purple Hour was descending as the Robemaker thrust Nuadu Airgetlam before him down the final stretch of road that led to the grisly Workshops . |
| 2 | But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion . |
| 3 | His plight was clearly desperate ; the slightest motion could hurtle him down the remaining few yards of slope and over the lip into the quarry . |
| 4 | There were plenty of other boys to follow him down the good physician 's route to Fitzwilliam Square . |
| 5 | What 's turn it over I mean it might start I du n no it let , let him down the other morning as well ! |
| 6 | He took possession of her hand with almost too much confidence , drawing her with him down the slippery slope of wet grass towards the waterside . |
| 7 | As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 . |
| 8 | In the eyes of Louis , his near-drowning had been an act of self-emasculation , a loss of face tumbling him down the social scale to a level little higher than a peon 's . |
| 9 | Harsh words led to action , and Haston despatched him down the public lavatory stairs . |
| 10 | I 've pursued him down the disappearing paths of my own psyche . |