Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] down a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get them through the Christmas crisis , staff in London were instructed to send down a variety of commercial patterns and magazines which Laura adapted herself . |
| 2 | The local authority to which he applied refused to provide the necessary grant , and the person was sadly compelled to turn down a place on a one-year post-graduate course which had already been offered to him . |
| 3 | I have never been known to turn down a volunteer for any project . |
| 4 | RPR leader Chirac also had to contend with an unprecedented growth of new " currents " within the Gaullist movement and on July 11 , 1991 , was forced to lay down a code of good conduct to guide them . |
| 5 | Once she had written , another decision would have been taken , and he would tell them in the office that they were having a stab at Italy this year , he 'd managed to track down a villa in Tuscany . |