Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He strolled along by the front of the house until he reached the north wing , where he turned down the grassy slope towards the trees . |
| 2 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |
| 3 | and I 'm not kidding you , he 's got his blue coat that he wears down the garden , you know the one with all the , he 's got erm his army jacket , a grey jacket erm tt how many has he got ? |
| 4 | Oh well , she said , you see , it 's my work , she said I work in a , in an insurance office and she said I 'm in and out the courts all the time , you see so he knocked down the wrong person |
| 5 | He picked up the bird and noticed it had a ring on its leg , so he wrote down the number and passed the information on to me . |
| 6 | Mr Maxmilian Frizzell had never read a book since leaving school and did not know who Lawrence was , so he put down the newspaper and took up the Car Dealer and Garageman with what dignity he could muster . |
| 7 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |
| 8 | And he put down the phone . |
| 9 | Hits it so low , he knocks it off and he comes down the wrong way and lands on top of us . |
| 10 | The room was hot when he entered , and he turned down the thermostat on the wall . |
| 11 | As in the Million , Teleprompter soon had the field at full pelt , and he tore down the back stretch and round the final bend . |
| 12 | If he knocks down the wicket with his own leg , he is out . |
| 13 | I tell ya , so I think we got out , we got our hair done and she wanted to go down to the mission so the hairdresser phoned a different taxi , we have this one up here , he took her down from there to the mission , cos he went down the back ways , you know , |
| 14 | But he got down the pit , after you know whe after the War . |
| 15 | His eyes watered so fiercely that tears ran down his cheeks , but he fought down the choking sensation and his self-esteem soared . |
| 16 | made it down the right hand side , he 's wearing number eleven but he came down the right hand side on this occasion and er a deep cross , he pulled it back brilliantly and who 'd missed that earlier header was there and could n't really miss on this occasion , but it was a fine header by him . |
| 17 | Even lesser known men were received with open arms and , in some cases , cheque books : when the Rev. J. A. Macfadyen went to America to ‘ supply ’ the pulpit of Brooklyn 's Central Congregational Church he was offered a church in Chicago at the princely stipend of £2,000 — over £60,000 today — but he turned down the offer . |
| 18 | After an impressive first year as a factory rider , Zeelenberg was in big demand but he turned down the lucrative offers without a moment 's hesitation . |
| 19 | On his death the people of Clermont elected the comes Genesius , but he turned down the office , because , as a layman , he regarded the appointment as uncanonical . |
| 20 | Mooney scored the goal of the game when he burst down the left and hit a low shot into the far corner . |
| 21 | A BUSINESSMAN 'S van was purring when he drove down the A1 in East Lothian . |
| 22 | When he came down the alley toward the club 's stage door he could see that there were three rough-looking teenagers who 'd clambered up the side of one of the big waste bins and were lifting stuff around inside . |
| 23 | When he drew down the top of the blanket Laura gave a cry , staggering where she stood . |
| 24 | I am employing the kind of argument that has been used to resist demands that God prove Himself by miraculous interventions of some form — demands that in Christian tradition Christ himself refused to satisfy when he turned down the Pharisees ' request for a ‘ sign ’ and asked that they have faith instead . |
| 25 | She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity . |
| 26 | He had , in a way , shown her the path , as Hansel did when he put down the pebbles which guided his sister and himself back home . |
| 27 | But when he put down the phone , he was wearing what Celia called his crisis face . |
| 28 | When he put down the phone , he said , " Really , sir , you make me feel that I 'm behaving like a suspect . " |
| 29 | When he put down the papers at last he looked abstracted . |
| 30 | He began to recite a litany of his own successes to himself as he passed down the quiet , thickly carpeted corridors to the executive lift that went up to the eighteenth floor : a new apartment in the smart suburb of Beauséjour ; a smaller apartment in Montparnasse , with a most accommodating young mistress ; two cars , one the largest and latest registration Citroën Familiale ; a generous expense account , which was not queried too closely — he hoped was not queried too closely . |