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Example sentences of "him down [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	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 .
2	Sheriff George Crozier accused the lawyer of shouting him down during a trial at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court .
3	‘ I have to admit we let him down over the gearbox which was slipping out of sixth gear and we have apologised for that .
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	His second to Party Politics in the Grand National marked him down as a stayer , but he is by no means a slouch over shorter trips .
6	I put him down as a schoolboy .
7	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 .
8	She helped him to the kitchen , as that seemed to be the best place for him for the moment , and sat him down at the kitchen table while she went and got a towel .
9	They 've got him down at the station for questioning .
10	He asked the taxi he had taken to put him down at the top of the drift and he had walked to the house .
11	And when she tried several times to pin him down at the office , invariably , as if he were telepathically aware of her intentions , he was elsewhere .
12	The village doctor was one of the house guests ; he and Andy 's father hold the boy up , letting water drain from his mouth , then lay him down on a coat on the snow .
13	Simon and Marian laid him down on a couch of deer-skins .
14	I sat him down on the kerb and called police . ’
15	‘ Mussed ’ is a word so outmoded I 'm surprised the God of Media did n't strike him down on the instant with a thunderbolt .
16	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 .
17	Blood-red were his spurs i " the golden noon ; wine-red was his velvet coat ; When they shot him down on the highway ,
18	Blood , blood red were his spurs , moon , rhymed red with his velvet coat , when they shot him down on the highway , down like a dog on the highway , and he lay in his blood on the highway , with a bunch of lace at his throat .
19	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 .
20	Nick set him down on the terrace and he rushed indoors .
21	She jumped up and thrust him down on the seat , holding his shoulders .
22	The excitement was very high , and the pressure of the other chimpanzees in the tree forced him down on the ground , where he was greeted by the screaming females .
23	He would have been happier if the Latin American had made at least a pretence at attempting to beat him down on the charter price .
24	He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord .
25	They overpowered him and , while the rest held him down on the pavement , one of them put the razor in the corner of Joyce 's mouth and slit his cheek backwards beyond the ear .
26	A spearman tried to bring him down with a lance thrust under the cuirass whilst another took a swing with a sword at the joints in the greaves on his legs .
27	I took him down with a shell , and he flew to pieces .
28	Yeah right I 'll put him down with a question mark .
29	James Shaw was given five years for his part in a later plot to kill Stephen Brown by knocking him down with a car .
30	She do n't put him down for a minute , oh he feels insecure and he 's left his mummy and goes love his granny and come on your granny , I think oh carry on !