Example sentences of "down [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Metropolitan Police have said that Courtney offered his services — but he was turned down for any work . |
| 2 | During training — or later , if I wanted to knock her weight down for any reason — she 'd have one day-old chick a day . |
| 3 | Every autumn my mother would make a football out of old rags and we had some rare games , often getting literally bogged down after any rain , with the imitation football getting too heavy to kick any distance . |
| 4 | The breaking down of any skilled trade into less skilled or specialized components carried a major threat to the whole apprenticeship system and to the notion of the craft as well as damaging the control of the worker over the work process , as Taylorization in the twentieth century would clearly demonstrate . |
| 5 | Erm , yes , as you know I 'm a member of the Essex traffic group and we did state at the time there will be no looking into or no pulling down of any type of property or building , yeah , but it , erm the Council went ahead and looked at Wordsworth Road |
| 6 | Because we 've said , we 've stated that there be no pulling down of any type of building . |
| 7 | Shortly before the vote Saddam Hussein had made a speech broadcast by Baghdad radio , asserting that if war came Iraq would fight with a heroism which would fill every Arab and Moslem with pride , and , more specifically , that Iraq had the means to detect US stealth bombers and shoot them down like any other enemy aircraft . |
| 8 | But right-wing delegations , such as the AEU engineering union , came down against any ‘ segregated ’ affiliate . |
| 9 | ‘ There was plenty of flak over the target area , and I kept looking at my useless chute , yet at the same time it was treated as a huge joke by us all , with the rest of the crew saying that no way was I going down with any of them if need be ! |
| 10 | Skill is demonstrated by persistent and efficient pursuit of an objective and the skill can usually be understood although not necessarily written down with any great precision in terms of a goal and the path towards that goal . |
| 11 | Charles Frederick was the odd one out in this respect — his feet were far too itchy to allow him to settle down into any sort of domesticity , and he would prove the fact in a dramatic enough way by sailing off around the world as soon as the opportunity presented itself . |
| 12 | Unfortunately Lady le Fleming 's agent appeared to take Leathart 's advice a little too literally and caused great concern to the partners by proposing a covenant binding them to prevent " all water " from filtering down into any part of the mine below Deep Level . |
| 13 | Modigliani and Ehrenburg edged towards the door whilst Rivera hoisted the stout and sturdy poet Max Voloshin from the floor as if he were a baby , but fortunately he quietened down before any damage was done . |
| 14 | ‘ If they said there was no danger , I would have to stand down from any further action on the matter . ’ |
| 15 | She hoped she had n't let him down in any way . |
| 16 | ( b ) They are not written down in any formal sense in that they are not expressed as Acts of Parliament nor are they established by judicial precedent . |
| 17 | They were all on edge , sometimes starting at nothing and again , lying down in any patch of long grass that offered . |
| 18 | It would be premature , and indeed impertinent , if we were to attempt to lay down in any detail the lines of a perfect " School " of English . |
| 19 | Putting these down in any order , we found , after removing duplicates , that we had 23 key words . |
| 20 | It is surprising how often this simple request is ignored and the spaces left blank or the numbers put down in any order but that asked for . |
| 21 | These have proved difficult if not impossible to pin down in any precise terms and demand for them appears to be similarly volatile … . |
| 22 | I had to say something humorous without being a smart-ass or putting her down in any way . |
| 23 | I mentioned culture briefly earlier on er I 'd like to define that a little bit better by saying we want a user sitting down in any part of the world to be able to use the product which we develop and feel that it is an accounting application developed for their world and their market place . |
| 24 | Given the disparate sources of the Constitution and the fact that important relationships within and between organs of the state are not laid down in any one formal or binding document , it is not surprising that one must have recourse to books by constitutional scholars to discover the extent and nature of those relationships . |
| 25 | It is quite likely that when your ferret locates rabbits in a dead-end you will be able to dig down without any serious problems . |
| 26 | I , I was very angry abo , with what Prince Charles said erm about education , because his ideas are just handed down without any , ah , without us ha being informed in any way of where he 's getting his information from . |
| 27 | Almost all aspects of life suffered under martial law which was used by consecutive governments to ban large public meetings and to crack down on any political groups and political parties working underground . |
| 28 | If necessary more than five trials can be used if the level of anxiety fails to come down on any one specific target . |
| 29 | Each year the GHS asks ‘ in the 14 days prior to interview have you had to cut down on any of the things you usually do ( about the house/at work or in your free time ) because of illness or injury ? ’ |
| 30 | I mean there 's no , there 's no fee or anything like that involved , so the fact that you 're all seen as members will cut down on any recriminations you might have . |