Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] down for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that it was when he got turned down for the job of a bus conductor . |
| 2 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 3 | I I do n't know whether M A F F would object , but they did lay down for the selection of their site . |
| 4 | Now , as they left the shuttle lounge at Heathrow , mixed in with the commuters and shoppers who had come down for the day , Adam saw the tail . |
| 5 | The bands started playing around 11 in the evening and , basically , people did n't go there for the music but to get a sleep if they lived too far out from central London to get home after the tubes had closed down for the night . |