Example sentences of "he [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , he plays down Judas and his followers as " a little help " , and even suggests that some of these followers had joined the ranks not because they believed in their cause , but under false pretences . |
| 2 | The Cloud-author would not dispute this but , whereas Julian and the others communicate their experience of the being of the transcendent God in the inner self by means of focus on the combination of literal and figurative truths revealed in the story of the Incarnation and Passion , he is so concerned with the reality of a God who can not be " known " by intellect or sense , that he plays down these " means " . |
| 3 | In Churchill 's speech in Zurich in 1946 he laid down his ideas for a ‘ kind of United States of Europe ’ : ‘ The first step in the re-creation of the European family must be a partnership between France and Germany . |
| 4 | Chapman 's absolute authority over the team and his concern for their performance on the field was highlighted by the firm rule he laid down for match days . |
| 5 | Then he laid down his challenge : essentially , he announced , ‘ I am not a van Gogh . ’ |
| 6 | He laid down the letter at breakfast with a white face . |
| 7 | Nowadays thousands of different types of thermometer in use in science and industry are based on the principles he laid down . |
| 8 | In a March speech at the Hotel Cecil he laid down a plan of submitting food taxes — the most controversial item — to a referendum . |
| 9 | He laid down his arms , ordered his castellans to obey Eleanor 's commands and returned , like a dutiful son , to his father 's court . |
| 10 | [ I ] t seems to me much more likely that Lord Hardwicke LC adopted [ the construction argued for by Mackenzie ] than that he laid down some new constitutional principle that the court had the power to give relief against the provision of a statute . |
| 11 | She who could call a lame youth to her and support him with her invisible grace while he laid down his crutches on the steps of her altar , why doubt that she could turn the leaves of a Gospel , and guide a faithful finger to the words her will required ? |
| 12 | He laid down his fork . |
| 13 | His health declined in 1611 , and he laid down his office in 1613 . |
| 14 | When at last he laid down his brush and palette and came across to help her up , she found that she resented his breaking the mood . |
| 15 | He laid down his drink . |
| 16 | Then he laid down his glass . |
| 17 | He laid down his glass and looked across at her . |
| 18 | washed out he very quickly got tired , you remember in hospital , he quickly got tired and if he laid down he quickly seemed to get his energy back , he 'd come back and be |
| 19 | He beamed down at his own plate , then cast a glance of concern at hers , a plain grilled escalope with tomatoes . |
| 20 | He plunged down for an interminable second , arms and legs splayed out in abandon , forgotten , tumbling anyhow , and crashed onto the stage on his back , lying across Bothwell , whose cloak was the colour of blood . |
| 21 | Without waiting for the others he plunged down the bank into the stream , slipping and slithering heedlessly over the protruding roots and rocks . |
| 22 | He plunged down , swung wildly , and ended up dangling over a bone-splintering death with his hands gripping the dragonlord 's arm so tightly that the man screamed . |
| 23 | But with 15 minutes left Dyer gave the visitors some hope when he chested down a cross and struck a strong shot past Muggleton from close range . |
| 24 | He slows down . |
| 25 | Then he swooped down and landed on a road near Varadero Beach , right in the middle of evening rush-hour traffic . |
| 26 | She nodded and sipped : he leaned his head forward and she brought the glass to his mouth : he finished it and she let it fall on a bush of discarded clothing as he swooped down with his hand , lifted her dress clear over her waist and then , as she struggled to help him , tugged it over her head . |
| 27 | He swooped down on to the grass and took stance by it . |
| 28 | Edward Thomas may not have known that he was also making an ecological point when he pinned down so precisely the atmosphere and feel of these places : |
| 29 | In one letter to Susanna Highmore , he turns down the offer of a sonnet to be prefixed to Leapor 's second volume : |
| 30 | He flies down there in his own old but immaculate Morane-Saulnier Paris III jet , and loves every second of it , summing up the Paris as ‘ 300 knots , 30,000 feet , six people : they 're magic numbers ’ . |