Example sentences of "[noun] down for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I went to the restaurant and put the money down for a large brandy . |
| 2 | Russell said , " Before you leave , put money down for a mescal . " |
| 3 | Michelle has been paralysed from the chest down for the past 11 years — the result , she claims , of a routine jaw operation she underwent at Poole General Hospital in November 1982 . |
| 4 | You put your guitar down for a second , and just as you turn away there 's a horrible discordant ker-draanngg ! , accompanied , if you 're unlucky , by the even more expensive noise of your headstock suddenly leaving the band to embark on a solo career . |
| 5 | She waited until he had passed through the door that led to the stairs ; then she covered up the trays of now cooling toffee , put a saucer of milk down for the cat , stroked the animal 's purring head , saying the while , ‘ Now you get to work , Flotsie , and put your score up tonight , ’ then she went out , and locked the door . |
| 6 | For sure , Disneyhood wo n't be challenging Swans in the heavyweight ring just yet , but they frequently flourish a muscular grip on proceedings , ultimately putting their collective foot down for a finale of ‘ Sight Return ’ , intimidating in its volume and velocity . |
| 7 | ‘ As soon as you get round the corner , put your foot down for a couple of blocks . |
| 8 | And like a well-trained dog I stuck an arm in the air and said , ‘ I 'm putting my foot down for the Telethon , how about you ? ’ |
| 9 | She stopped and put her case down for a moment to try and collect herself ; her hands were trembling uncontrollably from the weight . |
| 10 | turned our day upside down for a lark . |
| 11 | He was n't going to come charging back , forcing her to remember things she had worked long and hard to forget , turning her entire world upside down for a second time . |
| 12 | Once seed heads/leaves change colour remove and hang upside down for a while ensuring the tips preserve too . |
| 13 | The atmosphere was tense and all realised it was heads down for a full house . |
| 14 | ‘ I prefer to keep our heads down for the moment . |
| 15 | Cook breast side down for a quarter of the cooking time . |
| 16 | Well it 's the wrong pattern , up side down for a start , with the other piece of |
| 17 | On the last day Seve birdied the first hole and Hale took a six on the second , I can remember the scoring because in those days I had to mark all the cards , and I remember putting Irwin down for a six — and then the card blew in to the bunker on the second and I had to go chasing after it . |
| 18 | Eyes down for a full house and a long run . |
| 19 | Eyes down for a full house . |
| 20 | LONDON TOWERS caught Carlsberg League champions Roland Kingston with their guard down for the second time this season by defeating them 103-97 at the Michael Sobell Centre , Islington , on Sunday night . |
| 21 | He hired a car and took the boy down for a long weekend at the St. Mellion Golf and Country Club . |
| 22 | When we got into the studio , I got Gibson to send a few guitars down for a try-out and I ended up using them the whole way through the album . |
| 23 | Stephenson also sends Durham Edition down for the Food Brokers Ferrero Rocher Handicap Chase but due to defections the weights go up 14lb and he is topweight with 11st 10lb . |
| 24 | Stephenson also sends Durham Edition down for the Food Brokers Ferrero Rocher Handicap Chase but due to defections the weights go up 14lb and he is topweight with 11st 10lb . |
| 25 | As he pushed the nose down for the final approach , he extended down the undercarriage . |
| 26 | But it is no secret that the Government 's hopes rested on a thumbs down for the DUP and Sinn Fein , both considered formidable obstacles on the road to a political accommodation . |
| 27 | You take self take the employment figures down for a start . |
| 28 | ‘ If you get this into W.H. Smith 's ’ , observed the Australian , ‘ put your name down for a Rolls-Royce immediately . ’ |
| 29 | But ‘ the social worker put her name down for an EMI bed — eventually her name came to the top of the waiting list , and the social worker put her in . |
| 30 | I put her name down for the local hospice without her permission , because although she defiantly insisted she did n't want anything to do with it , I thought things might change as she deteriorated . |