Example sentences of "[verb] he down " in BNC.
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| 1 | … then lies him down , the Lubbard Fiend |
| 2 | Mr. Mendez wanted to put him on a coach and send him down there in style , but Russell kept backing off . |
| 3 | I 've pursued him down the disappearing paths of my own psyche . |
| 4 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 5 | In the mid-Eighties the Jockey Club invited him down to London to deliver a gentle reminder . |
| 6 | It 's the difference between the person who knocks you down to take your purse and the person who knocks him down to come to your rescue . ’ |
| 7 | It was true of Eliot , as it was true of Dr Johnson , that he needed to read himself into a writing disposition ; and that is perhaps why some of his best essays were produced under the stimulus of a particular kind — a review-book or some text which would ‘ tie him down ’ . |
| 8 | It was a glimmering he had , but no more than that , and she cast him down from the height of her knowledge . |
| 9 | Time at last to rid himself of the name ‘ Marwood ’ for good and all : he told the officiating minister , Alfred Martell , to write him down as ‘ James Henry Titford ’ . |
| 10 | Lucy drew him down to her . |
| 11 | ‘ Sponge him down and turn him out , ’ Henry said . |
| 12 | Who was mucking him out and hosing him down ? |
| 13 | The case of ice that weighed him down was his best suit . |
| 14 | This violent ritual of territorial supremacy , as described by Walter Besant in 1901 , sounds remarkably like the modern practice at football grounds of ‘ holding the End ’ : ‘ The boys gather together and hold the street ; if anyone ventures to pass through it they rush upon him , knock him down , and kick him savagely about the head ; they rob him as well … the boys regard holding the street with pride . ’ |
| 15 | An AK47 cracked again , keeping him down low , and blind . |
| 16 | Sin therefore reduces God to man 's image , scales him down to man 's size and substitutes man 's view of God for God himself . |
| 17 | I got home from hunting one January night , with snow on the ground and found him down and out in his stable . |
| 18 | It would seem that she intended to pull him down — in itself a tall order — and so grabbed at the reins . |
| 19 | She wanted to pull him down with her . |
| 20 | Cos you had to pull him down to dance . |
| 21 | Over the intervening years , however , the West may be thought to have let him down by declining , diminishing , to the condition of the West Indies : by becoming a backwater , with its Watergate and Ulster , its economic arrests and somnambulistic states of emergency . |
| 22 | The spinners Padmore , Jumadeen and Imtiaz Ali did the bulk of the bowling and , as far as Lloyd was concerned , it was they who had let him down . |
| 23 | Since he became leader , there have been many other occasions when his reluctance or inability to get through his homework have let him down and embarrassed his party . |
| 24 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 25 | How would you introduce him to God who would never let him down , especially since God is less certain to him than human beings who have let him down ? |
| 26 | In the past , the facility had rarely let him down . |
| 27 | They said goodbye and she felt she had let him down , that her unresponsiveness had been noted but not commented upon . |
| 28 | She often felt that she had let him down . |
| 29 | She hoped she had n't let him down in any way . |
| 30 | Had she let him down ? |