Example sentences of "down [conj] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gable refused to work further and Metro 's boy-wonder Irving Thalberg had to fly out to the location at Catalina to calm Gable down and persuade him to continue filming . |
| 2 | our Brian and he went down and got him |
| 3 | His eyes were dead , as if the Post Office van had mowed him down and killed him . |
| 4 | I was roused from my room with a call from the Cambridge police , Stewart had been arrested for disorderly conduct and was demanding that his skipper should come down and bail him out . |
| 5 | He 's right next door to Reggie 's flats when you go down and pick him up |
| 6 | In the end I had to get it down and let him have a sniff before he . |
| 7 | Erm , eventually he tracks him down and kills him , I could probably stretch that all out . |
| 8 | Go down and ask him . |
| 9 | I should have just put my foot down and knocked him over . |
| 10 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 11 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One day my son Krono and I were there , too busy eating to watch for trouble , and a big bird came down and took him away . ’ |
| 14 | She bent down and took him in her arms . |
| 15 | This news came within a week , as he had been picked up on Myitkyina airfield , unable to walk , and a lone plane came down and took him over to Dibrugarh , where he had to stay in hospital for over a week . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But unless Mr Clinton sits him down and tells him what he believes in , Mr Gergen will work no miracles . |
| 18 | ‘ I put the car into drive to run him down and kill him , ’ said Anne , who is just 5ft tall . |
| 19 | His passport carries the word ‘ courtier ’ in the space set aside for occupation — a joke he came to regret when arriving at Darwin airport to be faced by a massive , bronzed Australian immigration official who looked down and told him ‘ that 's not the way you spell courier , mate . ’ |
| 20 | Tip calmed him down and told him his son , also named Tip , would caddie for him . |
| 21 | Cramer calmed down and told him . |
| 22 | And at last she broke down and told him what Courtney had done to her . |
| 23 | In that moment , she almost broke down and told him she loved him desperately , for she could see , finally , that all her pretences in Thailand of his capacity for emotion had been just that : pretences . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Sponge him down and turn him out , ’ Henry said . |
| 26 | ‘ I bent down and asked him if he was all right . |
| 27 | Like there was this girl , she worked in the paper shop down the road , and there was this black kid who kept pestering her all the time , so we had to go down and sort him out . |
| 28 | ‘ Go down and tell him I 'm busy . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I calmed him down and checked him over and then the ambulance took over . ’ |
| 30 | Then some hooligans burnt the house down and ran him out of the district . |