Example sentences of "[pers pn] down and [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ted had been a little belligerent at first but a couple of hints that Pascoe had seen him drinking in the Club earlier and an oblique reference to the breathalyser test had calmed him down and made him most co-operative . |
| 2 | ‘ I put the car into drive to run him down and kill him , ’ said Anne , who is just 5ft tall . |
| 3 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
| 4 | ‘ Sponge him down and turn him out , ’ Henry said . |
| 5 | I thought that if I took him down to paddle for a while , it would cool him down and distract him , so he would be able to sleep . |
| 6 | His eyes were dead , as if the Post Office van had mowed him down and killed him . |
| 7 | Hunting him down and destroying him forever can become a full-scale adventure in itself . |
| 8 | ‘ Or do n't tell me that all those questions about Ryan were simply so that you could track him down and make him pay the money back ? ’ |
| 9 | Erm , eventually he tracks him down and kills him , I could probably stretch that all out . |
| 10 | But unless Mr Clinton sits him down and tells him what he believes in , Mr Gergen will work no miracles . |
| 11 | Tip calmed him down and told him his son , also named Tip , would caddie for him . |
| 12 | ‘ I calmed him down and checked him over and then the ambulance took over . ’ |
| 13 | I 've had to go back up in to him , yeah , but I do n't know what happened last night , I do n't know whether he was not quite tired enough , erm , he must of got up as soon as I put him down and started sort of moaning then I went into the girls and I sorted them out he started screaming he did , so I had to go to him in and lay him down and making him lay down |
| 14 | Cornelius lifted him down and set him upon the copper map . |
| 15 | ‘ We noted him down and watched him . ’ |
| 16 | In the end I had to get it down and let him have a sniff before he . |
| 17 | He straightened , and she heaved one jar out of the basin , but he took it from her and she felt his strength give the heavy vessel sudden lift ; she put it down and thanked him . |