Example sentences of "[verb] him down [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a glimmering he had , but no more than that , and she cast him down from the height of her knowledge . |
| 2 | James Shaw was given five years for his part in a later plot to kill Stephen Brown by knocking him down with a car . |
| 3 | Are you saying that we bundled him down to the waterside and had him hanged ? |
| 4 | Before he could do anything more another wave lifted him high into the foam-filled wind , then dizzyingly dropped him down into a hole in the ocean . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sheriff George Crozier accused the lawyer of shouting him down during a trial at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court . |
| 7 | I put him down as a schoolboy . |
| 8 | ‘ I have to admit we let him down over the gearbox which was slipping out of sixth gear and we have apologised for that . |
| 9 | He will inundate us with charters — and all because London Transport turned him down for a job . |
| 10 | They 've got him down at the station for questioning . |
| 11 | I had never had him down as a kerb-crawler either , but from the state of the car it looked as if it had had a good kicking . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He asked the taxi he had taken to put him down at the top of the drift and he had walked to the house . |
| 14 | It 's almost impossible to put him down in the tackle , and there are few players about who you an say that . |
| 15 | Granville Again was out of form with a few niggling problems , so after talking to Michael I decided to let him down for a break then bring him back to his peak for one day — this day . ’ |
| 16 | She was exhausted ; more so because of the alarmed way she had sprung out of reach whenever Guy had become restless , than from the number of times she had sponged him down in an attempt to cool his fever . |
| 17 | He preferred to forget about those , or to pretend to himself that ‘ the real Marie ’ had not sent that bottle crashing into the wall by his head , or hunted him down in the darkness of the tunnels . |
| 18 | She jumped up and thrust him down on the seat , holding his shoulders . |
| 19 | He might not have been able to dodge the water , but they 'd never pinned him down for the Instruction . |
| 20 | Cleared with the security guards at the desk he went into the lift that would take him down to a depth below the level of the Thames . |
| 21 | It would even be worth surrendering his prey , to have brought him down to the ignominy of lying to excuse himself . |
| 22 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 23 | He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord . |
| 24 | Simon and Marian laid him down on a couch of deer-skins . |
| 25 | I track him down to the University of Saskatchewan and just catch him at home before he leaves for work . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | So Michael says , ‘ Bring him down to the studio . |
| 28 | I watched as he engaged a man who led him down to a boat ; they climbed in , and the man began to haul away on his oars . |
| 29 | Someone brought him down to the hospital a couple of hours ago , and since then his condition has deteriorated . |
| 30 | For all Mellor 's protestations that the tabloids brought him down in an attempt to dictate to the Prime Minister who should be in his Cabinet , the truth is that the Heritage Secretary was rejected by his peers . |