Example sentences of "[v-ing] down for " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his two years in charge , he was responsible for the replacement as manager of Billy Bingham by Gordon Lee , stepping down for personal reasons after a comparatively short spell . |
| 2 | Both had superb , doubly dissected leaves , as elegant as the foliage of ferns , hanging down for 2ft or so . |
| 3 | ONE WAR WAS WINDing down for a while , not ending , because they never end . |
| 4 | It was less bad than the one before , but I could n't tell if they were dying down for good or if this were the prelude to something else . |
| 5 | He stood looking down for some time . |
| 6 | ‘ Elise was delighted I rang , but gave me a terrible dressing down for not ringing before or sending a postcard . |
| 7 | ‘ Quick , Sammy , what about the information he was writing down for Jim ? ’ |
| 8 | They rushed at the table from all sides , scrambling over stools , jumping down from top bunks like pigeons clattering down for crumbs . |
| 9 | I 'm being silly , it 's not important , she had told herself sternly as she had brushed her teeth before hurrying down for breakfast . |
| 10 | I did n't chew my nails with regret at giving him my virginity , furious at my weakness in lying down for him , and taking this boy in my arms just because he was English , a citizen of that great nation which had once ruled half the globe : nor did I blame myself for clinging on to an idea even though it meant severing my links with my country , and travelling to London alone without any member of my family . |
| 11 | I 'd like to stay lying down for a bit to make my headache go away , but I made a puddle on the pavement and I got to move . |
| 12 | By lying down for twenty minutes each day you can prevent this from happening . |
| 13 | I was tired , Thérèse said : so I was lying down for a bit . |
| 14 | Risking everything he grabbed two tomatoes and the biggest apples before bedding down for another night under cover of trees . |
| 15 | It 's surprising how much louder they seem to get when you 're bedding down for the night . |
| 16 | It 's not like us nipping down for a pint with the vicar ! ’ |
| 17 | England were soon losing wickets when play began , four going down for 80 ; but then Lamb and Robin Smith , on debut , showed what could be done , and on the Friday morning posted a century partnership and looked good for plenty more . |
| 18 | With six wickets going down for 62 they were never in the hunt , but Randall did his best to keep the game alive , supported by Knott and Jackman . |
| 19 | The last time this happened I just managed to catch a glimpse of his two black eyes , going down for the third time , before I landed him . |
| 20 | Tram Pinch , Running Over Frogs , Flashing a Breaker , Crippled Joints , Demic , Jim Crow , Going down for Two , 3-bell load ? |
| 21 | I 'm going down for a week from 10 May to see many of them . |
| 22 | ‘ Jackie , you do n't understand , I 'm going down for the big one . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm going down for another , ’ shouts Pa over the howl of the cleaner . |
| 24 | Now I did not have the slightest intention of going down for a drink : all the drinking I was going to do was at the reception — if I ever got to the wedding . |
| 25 | The agile and fleet-footed Salmond showed little sign of the calf injury sustained in a recent football match and which required 18 stitches , but unfortunately only the two debutants , Love ( 14 ) and Stuart Kennedy ( 10 ) , gave the Arbroath player any support , the last five wickets going down for 32 runs . |
| 26 | he 's applied to the Metropolitan police , he 's going down for an interview in June |
| 27 | But erm you see , they suggested going down for a meeting he 's up to his eyes in it ! |
| 28 | They 've suggested a meeting down there but , my point i I feel that there 's no point going down for an argument cos that 's all it 's going to be . |
| 29 | point going down for an argument . |
| 30 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |