Example sentences of "down and [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had his time-proven tests for this : one was simply to walk over the land and to ‘ feel it through his boots ’ , ; then again he would take up a handful of soil , carefully crumbling it to test it ; or he would bend down and draw his fist backwards through the soil . |
| 2 | ‘ Great , great , ’ replied Ben , still laughing as he jumped down and rejoined his comrade in the jeep . |
| 3 | The man stayed on the other side , bent down and locked his hands behind her . |
| 4 | He knelt down and got his fingers into a crack in the floorboards . |
| 5 | Now that bull weighed nearly a ton , but he leapt off the ground like a bird ; hit Merry in the back and knelt down and got his horn between Merry 's legs . |
| 6 | He sat down and beamed his good eye at the shine on his toecap . |
| 7 | See , he 's fallen down and broken his crown . |
| 8 | Gurder flung himself face down and buried his nose in it . |
| 9 | Andrew set his cup down and unravelled his long legs . |
| 10 | And he came in and sat down and put his elbows on the edge of his tray and it all went whack over his blazer and it all slid down onto his trousers . |
| 11 | His work prospered ; at the end of the first year he won the Literary Medal , and a cash prize which enabled him to go down and visit his mother . |
| 12 | ‘ 'E 's a spry ole thing , but he 's as soft as butter , ent you , ole boy ? ’ and he knelt down and ruffled his fur . |
| 13 | Dr Arnold lauded the Reference team as much as he did his favourite orchestra , who sat down and played his works without any rehearsals or having read the music . |
| 14 | In a brief campaign , Aurangzeb had seized the empire , imprisoned his father , and had begun hunting down and murdering his three brothers . |
| 15 | He pushed back a long , greasy spike of hair that kept slipping down and pricking his ear . |
| 16 | When she read how the Lord looked down and saw his people were ‘ all together become filthy ’ she trembled . |
| 17 | When I went down and saw his studio I came out so elated . |
| 18 | When I went down and saw his studio I came out so elated . |
| 19 | He looked down and saw his colleague still lying in the mud , not daring to move . |
| 20 | ‘ He moves by putting his fists down and dragging his legs behind him . |
| 21 | Secondly , he must make sure Hirst knuckles down and gets his feet back on the ground . |
| 22 | But when he looked down and met his daughter 's eyes , the certainty there disturbed him . |
| 23 | Harry was a little diffident to begin with , but he soon settled down and made his first appearance for Palace at outside-right when he came into the side for season 1922–23 on 30 September at Leicester . |
| 24 | She knelt down and took his hands . |
| 25 | When he got there he sat down and rubbed his brow . |
| 26 | They lay the child with his head down and slap his chest to help drain the lungs . |
| 27 | Since he became leader , there have been many other occasions when his reluctance or inability to get through his homework have let him down and embarrassed his party . |
| 28 | None was as close as Ewan had been , but they did their best , bringing him the gossip , chattering , urging him to rise , to dress , to come out , come down and eat his dinner with the other folk . |
| 29 | But he finally got there and settled himself down and lifted his baton . |
| 30 | He was kind of looking down and twiddling his pen , you know … and I mean I know it sounds stupid , but I did n't mind , I think I knew anyway . |