Example sentences of "was [verb] down for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONE WAR WAS WINDing down for a while , not ending , because they never end . |
| 2 | TRUE Brit Wayne Batterbee was turned down for a job — because he has the Union Jack tattooed on his hand . |
| 3 | He was turned down for an insurance policy on the grounds that he was too old . |
| 4 | I was tired , Thérèse said : so I was lying down for a bit . |
| 5 | Press restrictions were imposed ( but quickly lifted ) and the weekly current affairs magazine Caretas was closed down for a time , commentators thereby inferring that the chief target of the coup was APRA . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At dusk , passing through the countryside , everything was slowing down for the night . |
| 8 | There was not a lot to tour in the inclement weather , though the Bohemia concert party was marked down for a visit , and the bandstand too held promise , though with all these people about , she doubted she would hear the music . |
| 9 | In the old days before the distracting influences of radio and television , the fixed routine of the adult inhabitants after the day 's work was done was to settle down for an evening 's knitting , a craft both men and women practised assiduously , on the outside galleries in summer and by candlelight in front of a peat fire in winter . |
| 10 | I recall my own final visit to the farm where he was allowed down for an hour and where the flame was rekindled for that period sufficiently for us to forget his illness and think only that the old Nye had been restored . |
| 11 | Clearly suffering from the after-effects of a hip injury , she was knocked down for a koka — just three points — by the Soviet Elena Petrova , but it was enough to wipe out her hopes of a third consecutive world title . |
| 12 | Around me the camp was settling down for the night , bricks securing groundsheets , tent flaps tied tight , kerosene lamps hissing away their shadows . |
| 13 | Lower bruised his left leg and was stood down for the rest of the afternoon by the course doctors . |
| 14 | The Shell-owned Eider oil production platform , with 38 people on board , was shut down for a while . |
| 15 | 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 . |