Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | He jumps up from the day-bed on which he has just sat down . |
| 2 | He has already laid down a marker by setting the fastest time in history during pre-season testing at the oval track in Phoenix , Arizona , where the next round of the Indycar series will be held on 4 April . |
| 3 | Friends of Dr Owen say that his farewell advice to the nation — he has now stood down as an MP — is intended to avoid damaging the chances for his two remaining SDP colleagues , Rosie Barnes and John Cartwright , who are fighting to hold on to their south-east London seats . |
| 4 | Again , he has accurately written down the sound of the word . |
| 5 | So can you er look at it in that light and you will see of course that and I can understand why Mr has done it in this way , he has actually broken down er his the approach to this to looking at this criterion , under the three heads , road , rail and bus . |
| 6 | Perhaps he 'd already settled down under his blanket when Berowne arrived . |
| 7 | He 'd just gone down there because er . |
| 8 | Cursin " he was " cos he 'd just settled down to his kipper . |
| 9 | He 'd never looked down on a human before . |
| 10 | so he goes oh what the hell and they shovel tea down him and erm he starts throwing up and , what happened is that when he , when he gets like cut down they ta take him back to the room and they put them in their boxer shorts just sitting there and they 've wired up a mouse trap to like their their |
| 11 | He had neither glanced down nor passed a fingertip over the edges of the leaves , to determine how far advanced in the book his page might be . |
| 12 | To add insult to injury , he had even turned down paying pupils in order to give free lessons to Aloysia ; and with supreme lack of tact he even described how he had begun an aria for the tenor Raaff , only to turn it into one for Aloysia instead . |
| 13 | Lambert , limping badly , wore a French police helmet , and Dangerfield was wiping mud from his eyes : he had just fallen down . |
| 14 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 15 | He had just sat down in front of the television , beer in one hand , chicken leg in the other , feet on the coffee table , and Sportsnight just started . |
| 16 | ‘ Please yerself , ’ answered Tom , but before he could warn Zach about the waterlogged floor he had already leapt down inside . |
| 17 | He had reportedly turned down an offer from Kaunda of the post of labour minister and a position on the central committee of UNIP — a decision which was said to have had much to do with the MMD's decision in April to choose him as its presidential candidate [ see p. 38133 ] . |
| 18 | He had actually slumped down at the breakfast table before he became aware of Kelly 's presence . |
| 19 | Richie dialled the number he had never written down but always carried in his memory . |
| 20 | He had almost broken down . |
| 21 | He had hardly sat down again when there was another strong kick at the door . |
| 22 | Erm he 's just come down with this rotten old cough and cold again and I was going to take him to the doctor 's but then they do n't like it giving them anything and I do n't like giving him anything so |
| 23 | He 's just put down Sophie . |