Example sentences of "be [verb] down for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's surprising how much louder they seem to get when you 're bedding down for the night . |
| 2 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 3 | Under English evidential law , specific provisions are laid down for the submission and use of computer records in court . |
| 4 | To reduce the possibility of the lining materials , used for the construction of walls and ceilings , contributing to the initial fire spread within the building , performance standards are laid down for the reaction to fire of the materials used for the exposed surfaces . |
| 5 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 6 | My maternal grandmother was living with us at the time , it having been decided that her flat in Highgate should be closed down for the duration of the war , and she circulated between the homes of her son and three daughters so that she could be looked after . |
| 7 | How then can the term ‘ mass medium ’ be pinned down for the period 1945 — 90 ? |
| 8 | In the Newport hundreds , where the level of lay assessments was low and left substantially unchanged by the subsidy , the proportion of wealth owned by the Church was much higher than in the more advanced Chilterns , not only in 1522 but also after the initial assessments had been scaled down for the subsidy . |
| 9 | You may laugh , but already deposits worth £30,000 have been put down for the book and at least 5,000 people have telephoned bookshops to express an interest . |
| 10 | More than two negative reasons for accepting a job can take a heavy toll on your resources of enthusiasm , particularly if you had the added disappointment of being turned down for the post you 'd really hoped for at the time . |
| 11 | Rules were laid down for the management of schools , and the provision of finance by local authorities . |
| 12 | Others , their duties finished , were settling down for the night on their pallets in front of the fires . |
| 13 | I 'm sitting up on a hillside looking down on Lollapalooza , by a ski lodge which is shut down for the summer . |
| 14 | Outside , Baker Street was closed down for the weekend except for the Barracuda Club , which had taken over from the original School Dinners restaurant after it moved across the road to usurp the No. 34 Wine Bar . |
| 15 | At dusk , passing through the countryside , everything was slowing down for the night . |
| 16 | Around me the camp was settling down for the night , bricks securing groundsheets , tent flaps tied tight , kerosene lamps hissing away their shadows . |
| 17 | Lower bruised his left leg and was stood down for the rest of the afternoon by the course doctors . |
| 18 | On this occasion , everything was shut down for the night but in the morning when the armourers were about to start work , something went wrong . |