Example sentences of "[verb] him down for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Put him down for x-ray , Sister , and we 'll see . ’ |
| 2 | Put him down for five or six places , got in at Gander Hall , loves the place . |
| 3 | But at this second exhibition Flatpattern 's ex-wife , who has been trying to track him down for alimony , appears , denounces him and the syndicate and mayhem breaks out . |
| 4 | He will inundate us with charters — and all because London Transport turned him down for a job . |
| 5 | Got him down for Harrow after that , and if he does n't get in , Redfern Park . |
| 6 | Granville Again was out of form with a few niggling problems , so after talking to Michael I decided to let him down for a break then bring him back to his peak for one day — this day . ’ |
| 7 | If we examine God not as protagonist and moral bully but as author of this story , we have to mark him down for plot , motivation , suspense and characterisation . |
| 8 | He might not have been able to dodge the water , but they 'd never pinned him down for the Instruction . |
| 9 | Mr Cheney promptly slapped him down for speaking out of turn , which had more to do with Pentagon power play than strategy . |
| 10 | You write to an imaginary friend , you 're inviting him down for the summer holidays and you say all that , all about the sort of things that you 're planning to do with them , make it up |
| 11 | Wharton has a big-money fight with Sheffield 's Fidel Castro , formerly Slugger O'Toole , with his title and Castro 's British title on the line , after producing awesome punching that cut Carr , put him down for an eight count and forced referee Dave Parris step in after 2min 7sec . |
| 12 | A left-hook hurt Ekubia in the sixth round , and then another put him down for a count of nine . |
| 13 | She do n't put him down for a minute , oh he feels insecure and he 's left his mummy and goes love his granny and come on your granny , I think oh carry on ! |
| 14 | We have n't put him down for a nursery school- ! |
| 15 | So , hoisting her bag over her shoulder with an element of pride that for a brief moment made her lose sight of how important it was to try and pin him down for an interview , she made for the door . |
| 16 | In his second defence of the title , against the man he had beaten to win it in June , Wharton 's awesome blows cut Carr above his left eye and then had him down for a count of eight and unable to defend himself when he regained his feet . |
| 17 | I 've been trying to pin him down for weeks . ’ |