Example sentences of "down for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 2 | Over by the birch trees , Mervyn Finch had started to play his squeezebox to Vera ‘ Got All the Things There ’ Loomis , and a few of the adults were dancing the old dances that have been passed down for nearly 200 years . |
| 3 | He received a dressing down for not keeping a proper guard . |
| 4 | It does not assume any proof demonstrating its validity , and therefore it can not be knocked down for not offering it . |
| 5 | ‘ Elise was delighted I rang , but gave me a terrible dressing down for not ringing before or sending a postcard . |
| 6 | Barings nearly want down for over twenty million . |
| 7 | It 's not all good : you can never find a toothbrush in our house and you dare n't put your keys down for even an instance . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I 've been let down for tonight . |
| 9 | Tuning can be done with either a bypassed ( dry ) sound , or by holding the pedal down for slightly longer the A4 is muted completely , for silent tuning . |
| 10 | Richards won the toss and took a long time to decide to bat ; when he did so Dilley bowled superbly , and five wickets went down for just 54 . |
| 11 | Just si now just ge just hands down for just one minute please . |
| 12 | As he knows , I must decide whether to give this matter precedent over the business set down for today or for tomorrow . |
| 13 | As he knows , I have to decide whether his application comes within the Standing Order and , if so , whether a debate should be granted which would take precedence over the business set down for today or tomorrow . |
| 14 | The bloke says bring it down for today . |
| 15 | Well yours is n't down for today . |
| 16 | Perhaps we should not be surprised that Parliament is closing down for so long . |
| 17 | You doing a swim because that costs more , but it 's not just actual spa we 've put down for though |
| 18 | Yeah , that 's it , double cooker actually , gon na try , get some flooring down for Colin 's mum , just gon na put some cheap lino down for now |
| 19 | There 's too much quality at the club for us to stay down for long . |
| 20 | Nothing had ever been able to keep her down for long — another advantage of her Arian birth-sign , her mother would have insisted . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , you 're so cynical , ’ she had flung at him , head up ; she was never down for long . |
| 22 | I was told to sit down for about five hours in a hall , to wait for them to call my name out , to go to see the doctor . |
| 23 | There when you go to the bank , you have to sit down for about two hours before they even think you 're there . |
| 24 | So I think he was down for about six months before he left . |
| 25 | Where we were dru , the spi , the Espinear used to be drummed down for about five , six , seven years . |
| 26 | I do n't think he lay down for quite some time though as he never had any shavings in his mane or tail for weeks but at least he could move about and that relieved quite a few of his problems . |
| 27 | It is true that much of the country closes down for too long over this festive period , though there are advantages for industry in doing that and we all deserve a decent break at this time of the year . |
| 28 | A pair of Derwent jet engines , once fitted to Meteor WL181 and latterly used as runway de-icers were hammered down for only £750 . |
| 29 | AUSTRALIA wrapped up the series 4–0 with an ultimately easy victory over a dispirited Indian side , whose last 10 wickets went down for only 59 in the final innings . |
| 30 | Shortly after left the maltings , that part of closed down for ever , and I felt that the last link was finally broken with the major part of my working life . |