Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was never entirely clear where he bedded down at night after he lurched from the pub with various caddying cronies of a like mind . |
| 2 | Where he fell down was in failing to deliver on late payment of debt , which cost businesses dear . |
| 3 | The four priestesses led the man over to a freshly dug grave , where he lay down as the goat-faced figure produced a black cockerel . |
| 4 | Wexford pushed aside the willows that hung like a pelmet and came to the rubbish pocket , where he knelt down . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But although he looked down on Nuri he also looked up at him , and because of that Nuri had a unique ability to touch Mahmoud on the raw . |
| 7 | He was worried about his father , so he went down , they had a few drinks , then he came back to London . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ So he went down , ’ said Frome , as if puzzling it out , ‘ and he helped himself to the headmaster 's sherry . ’ |
| 9 | He missed a step so he went down two instead of one . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | John feels better , so he comes down to sit at the kitchen table and chat . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Glance at the paper ; no particular interest in petrol queues or Ireland without Whitelaw , so he settled down to think about Jacqui and Steen . |
| 15 | No answer came from the cellar , so he dived down there , leaving me alone with several rather fierce-looking dogs . |
| 16 | She did not move , though she must have heard him , so he sat down tentatively beside her . |
| 17 | Once he lets down his defences half the social workers in Norfolk , amateur and professional , will move in on him . ’ |
| 18 | Sort of , and then once he comes down he 's hardly done anything has he ? |
| 19 | Once he broke down and cried on the radio . |
| 20 | Beating a similarly ornamented one-sided drum with a fur-covered stick , the shaman chanted and danced with increasing frenzy until he fell down in a trance . |
| 21 | But when she brought the children round , they would all wait outside a side door until he came down and joined them . |
| 22 | But even when he was surrounded he continued to lay about him with his sword , and then with an axe when his sword broke , until he went down from a blow to the head . |
| 23 | Books were obviously supernumerary , and he began jettisoning them until he got down to those two which every guest on ‘ Desert Island Discs ’ is furnished with as a bare , civilised minimum : the Bible and Shakespeare . |
| 24 | Travis moved , and she tensed , holding her breath until he settled down to sleep again . |
| 25 | He also kicked badly out of hand until he settled down to play a more influential role after the interval . |
| 26 | There can come a point when a child is genuinely beside himself ( you have to use your knowledge of your child ) and you need to encompass him firmly in your arms until he calms down . |
| 27 | He became an MP in 1841 , immediately after leaving Cambridge , representing Maidstone as an independent Conservative until he stood down in 1852 in the hope of an Irish seat , but again represented Maidstone from 1857 until the General Election of 1859 . |
| 28 | There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down . |
| 29 | He would n't go to Wyvis Hall now if Adam invited him , if he went down on his bended knees . |
| 30 | But he , he was getting more money in Bailey 's so he ended up if he went down to the , the he would get two fifty still . |