Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] down for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've suggested a meeting down there but , my point i I feel that there 's no point going down for an argument cos that 's all it 's going to be . |
| 2 | point going down for an argument . |
| 3 | They rushed at the table from all sides , scrambling over stools , jumping down from top bunks like pigeons clattering down for crumbs . |
| 4 | Small blooms of fire exploded all around the sandbagged post and the steel door , the defenders huddling down for cover . |
| 5 | The old house creaked in its joints like an old dog settling down for the night . |
| 6 | Roseanne Barr would make a great Liz during her older , fatter days but could have trouble slimming down for scenes of a 60-year-old Liz in her more glamorous days . |
| 7 | Let's say you get up in the morning and spend 15 minutes sitting down for breakfast . |
| 8 | She sat again at the dinner table and saw in the candlelight Hilary Robarts 's dark , discontented eyes staring intently at Alex Mair ; watched the planes of Miles Lessingham 's face fitfully lit by the leaping flames of the fire , saw his long-fingered hands reaching down for the bottle of claret , heard again that measured rather high voice speaking the unspeakable . |
| 9 | I do n't know if I agree with this , giving seven year old , three hours tests , erm , I do n't , see the child is , I mean can you just see sit Benjamin sitting down for three hours doing a test ? |
| 10 | With six wickets going down for 62 they were never in the hunt , but Randall did his best to keep the game alive , supported by Knott and Jackman . |
| 11 | The agile and fleet-footed Salmond showed little sign of the calf injury sustained in a recent football match and which required 18 stitches , but unfortunately only the two debutants , Love ( 14 ) and Stuart Kennedy ( 10 ) , gave the Arbroath player any support , the last five wickets going down for 32 runs . |
| 12 | The ruins of an ancient church stand near the pebble beach , which you may have to share with cows coming down for a paddle . |
| 13 | Its from the water to the racetrack for our action round-up this week … the Oxfordshire based jaguar racing team have been at Silverstone shaking down for the 24 hour race at Le Mans which fires into action next weekend … |