Example sentences of "he [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He beamed down at his own plate , then cast a glance of concern at hers , a plain grilled escalope with tomatoes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | With that , he hopped down from the rock , leaving its previous occupant free rein over the throng . |
| 6 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 7 | He goes down to his estate and does n't stay there a moment , we call in at Luxor and he does n't want to go ashore . |
| 8 | So , no she 's very much in the background she was and then course little old boy he goes down to her and his old eyes lit up again s , so then eventually come in , so he said erm oh here 's that trophy they wanted , she come third in Great Britain , little old gran . |
| 9 | Howard ca n't help laughing to himself as he goes down in the lift . |
| 10 | The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair . |
| 11 | ‘ Everything makes sounds , ’ Gaver explains as he sits down at his Macintosh . |
| 12 | He sits down at his desk and opens his diary . |
| 13 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 14 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 15 | And so quickly he makes his way to the gate of the city as we 've said , and he gets this man he sits down with the te with the te , with the ten elders who would be witnesses and the kinsman arrives . |
| 16 | Likeable , cordial , he sits down in a chair facing her husband and herself and proceeds to converse with them . |
| 17 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
| 18 | So this is how it 's going to be , thinks Howard , as he rides down in the lift again . |
| 19 | Now what is actually talked about , he splits down into two , he splits it down into Express , which is next day , not , all next day , and general which is two day and three day . |
| 20 | He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray . |
| 21 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 22 | When he got down to Punctuality and Considerateness as a Driver , he decided to give up and improvise . |
| 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 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 25 | After the obligatory preamble on the weather he got down to business . |
| 26 | Anyway , he waffled on for a little while about everything that did n't matter and then … ’ she swallowed ‘ … then he got down to it and told me about everything that did . ’ |
| 27 | He got down off the cart to pick a leaf from a roadside bush , and hoisting himself back into his seat resumed his journey , sucking on the leaf as he started to explain . |
| 28 | He got down on his knees behind the drawer and I heard tape rip . |
| 29 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
| 30 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |