Example sentences of "[pron] down for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter . |
| 2 | Even when reviews do exist , tracking them down for a particular title can be difficult . |
| 3 | Instead of putting them down for the afternoon , I 'd like to be able to do something with them . |
| 4 | Write them down for . ’ |
| 5 | Angela is planning a traditional wedding but the dresses she had seen were too romantic and frilly , and she was unsure about what to do with her make-up as she normally wears quite strong colours but felt she wanted to tone them down for her wedding day . |
| 6 | Once all the for the rth generation have been determined , we can write them down for the ( r+1 ) th generation using ( 8.3 ) . |
| 7 | I can get them down for you . |
| 8 | " He carried off his subjects ' wives , daughters and kinswomen by force and made them his concubines ; when he had sated his own lust on them he handed them down for his soldiers to enjoy . |
| 9 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |
| 10 | I wrote them down for each person . |
| 11 | I 'll jot them down for you . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Oh well , I do n't think this is the kind of place you have to put them down for at birth . |
| 13 | ‘ But I 'll tell you now , there are only three additives that could have had that effect on the car 's performance , and I 'll write them down for you now . ’ |
| 14 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |
| 15 | So er he carried them down for me . |
| 16 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Put me down for picketing , Bob , ’ says Robyn . |
| 18 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 19 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 20 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 21 | I 'm just can you put me down for some paracetamols for the pain |
| 22 | Now I won that game , losing just two ‘ pieces ’ , but only after I left with the comeliest ‘ piece ’ of all , a wench from the imperial harem , did Suleiman discover that I had cheated and publicly marked me down for death . |
| 23 | ‘ Put me down for a fiver both ways . ’ |
| 24 | She might have put me down for talking . |
| 25 | She could have put me down for talking |
| 26 | What did you put me down for accent ? |
| 27 | The survivalist culture of the ghetto insists that , instead of leading ever fuller lives , we should strip ourselves down for action and retaliation : it 's a culture fascinated by war games , fitness , one-upmanship . |
| 28 | ‘ Some day , when I 'm big and strong , I 'll knock someone down for you , ’ she said . |
| 29 | Rodney said , ‘ We 've put you down for dinner , seeing as you chickened out again last night . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ They 'd send you down for years , ’ chided Norman . |