Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often there was little sympathy with the position of women , but rather a strong commitment to a cause or an ideal ; this was the case with Florence Nightingale and the leading women educationalists , Miss Beale and Miss Buss , both of whom turned down offers of marriage . |
| 2 | I was surprised that he should sound so definite : it was usually I who pinned down occasions with that sort of fact . |
| 3 | Mr Sands stressed that he would have taken the same view of any party who laid down such a set of pre-conditions . |
| 4 | Oh Lord who to see that all the world , we thank thee for those who fought and those who laid down their lives in the cause of righteousness and freedom . |
| 5 | Before he could fit in a visit , he was forestalled by Len Brayton , Maisie 's father , who rode down to Aumery Park Farm one Wednesday in mid-January , after attending the market at Kirkbymoorside . |
| 6 | There were loads of coins spread about and we know of at least one enterprising youngster who got down on his hands and knees , without the aid of a detector , using his hands to find nearly ten pounds in modern coins and two of the much sought-after tokens . |
| 7 | It was also he who scribbled down the title ‘ Deeply Dippy ’ one evening when he heard the phrase used in a Fry and Laurie exchange on Jeeves And Wooster . |
| 8 | As we all bundled in , the room seemed to get smaller , more like a cupboard really , and by the time the Hertfordshire team was packed in , it was standing room only and heaven help anyone who bent down to pull on their tights ! |
| 9 | Linda Stapleton , who moved down from Middlesex 10 years ago , and is secretary of the North Devon community health council in Barnstaple , agrees : ‘ Services down here are generally very good , but you have to go further and choice can be limited . |
| 10 | She 's has n't a soul in the world barring her sister who came down and identified the bodies . ’ |
| 11 | The very word ‘ Somerset ’ ( Sumorsaetan ) is Anglo-Saxon , possibly meaning ‘ summer dwellers ’ , men who came down to graze the levels in summer-time . |
| 12 | The first British administrator of Tanganyika Masailand was Colonel E.D. Browne , who had been Assistant District Commissioner at Laikipia at the time of the second Masai move in 1911–13 , and who came down to Tanganyika convinced that the Kenya Masai had had a rotten deal and determined to see that the Tanganyika Masai got a better one . |
| 13 | As a result , it received several offers of help , including one from the mystery blonde accountant who came down to the Sanctuary twice . |
| 14 | To D'Arcy 's surprise it was Nadirpur who answered the entry phone , and again the man himself who came down to let them in . |
| 15 | The women who came down to the river , no doubt fearful of looks themselves , avoided the barge . |
| 16 | Then she told her sister , who came down in a taxi and I was talking to a woman who would not get off the phone . |
| 17 | But they were some well on , lo and behold , could open the door er two or three minutes late and c er call the er number , Yes sir , er as they entered the class and they would get their mark , this being I think you got a red mark if you were late , t to stand out so that an inspector who came down periodically could look down the register and there was the record of who was early and who was late by the colour of the ink-pens , I think . |
| 18 | ‘ No , Father , there 's yet one more to be seen , a young man from a neighbouring hamlet who came down to help the carters . |
| 19 | So er that was a telephone call to the divisional officer , who was available at the moment and who came down and discussed it with the employer and notwithstanding that , in the afternoon I had given the management one hour to resolve the problem otherwise there was going to be a major walkout . |
| 20 | In my case the question of chaperonage came up with regard to the O. U. D. S. At that time all the women 's parts in the O. U. D. S. plays were taken by professional actresses who came down from London for the rehearsals and performances — and very glamorous they were too — Peggy Ashcroft among them ! |
| 21 | And it says , now when the apostles , who were in Jerusalem heard that Somaria had received the word of God they sent them Peter and John , who came down and prayed for them , that they might receive the Holy Spirit . |
| 22 | I think there was somebody called who came down the isle and gave a couple of balloons . |
| 23 | They learned that lawyers in Leeds and Selby were kept busy defending 18th century rioters , who burned down toll houses in protest against plans by landowners to charge tolls on their road . |
| 24 | Once it had gone , though , he had little chance against Ivanisevic , who bombed down another 18 aces , to leave him needing just eight more for an astonishing 1,000 in all tennis this year . |
| 25 | They included this year 's Dubai Cup winners at Hickstead , Robert Smith and Brook Street Boysie , who threw down their usual serious challenge only to be bettered by 1.05sec . |
| 26 | It was they , not we , who threw down the challenge . |
| 27 | A BANNED driver who mowed down and killed five youngsters in a high-speed chase was jailed for a maximum of five years yesterday . |
| 28 | Salford , who turned down a Leeds approach for Ian Bragger , yesterday listed Steve Herbert for £20,000 , at his own request . |
| 29 | Blencowe apparently owed his career as a judge to Wallis who turned down a bishopric for himself but asked that his son-in-law be considered for a judicial appointment [ DNB , 20 , 598–602 ] . |
| 30 | Coppell , who turned down an indirect approach from Sunderland , has not been helped by the public criticisms of Noades . |