Example sentences of "[verb] it down for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While you are waiting for God to write it down for you in capital letters , ’ Anna had shouted finally , exasperated out of all diplomacy , ‘ I shall decide for you both . |
| 2 | Erm I do n't think I have got any written down here for you to have a look so I 'll have to write it down for you erm stuff about Stanley knives . |
| 3 | Rumour had it the owner of the Gazi burned it down for the insurance money . |
| 4 | It was heavy for him , he was glad to set it down for a while . |
| 5 | If I write this on the board , I 'll break it down for you because it 's a word you may well see , sorry about that |
| 6 | Your fax has been here for about a week now , I 'll bring it down for you . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll carry it down for you , ’ said Philip . |
| 8 | So you count , you hold it down for three . |
| 9 | So remember you hold it down for the right length and quickly take your hand off , as soon as you 've done it . |
| 10 | Why you writing it down for ? |
| 11 | She could have asked for the moon , and seen the clansmen climb on each other 's shoulders to reach it down for her . |
| 12 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 13 | Yes it erm you know , Martin 's done well , he 's got up and just nodded it down for Andy and erm he 's took it well ; a little touch and he 's just finished it very well , so you know , I 'm pleased for him . |
| 14 | There is nothing whatever to do about it , except , possibly , to put it down for a time . |
| 15 | On application they literally digest smells by producing enzymes which attack the source of the odour , breaking it down for the bacteria to absorb . |
| 16 | Now if you want to see something that 's up on a shelf at the side , ask one of the helpers wearing a red jersey and they 'll take it down for you and show it to you . |
| 17 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 18 | computers and that and er he left it and he just carried on talking about this that and the other , and he says right I 'm going and he went and he left the game , he 'd brought it down for the kids , he did n't say , you know |
| 19 | She may , for example , lay it down for a few seconds while she opens the entrance to her hole . |
| 20 | Septimus brought it down for me one Christmastime when I was just a girl — before the last war anyhow . |
| 21 | He hurried the will into proper form and brought it down for signature . |
| 22 | The bloke says bring it down for today . |
| 23 | sort of get that er sort of er get a , a neat copy run off we might be able to get it down for repro to reprographics in time for er Tuesday week with a bit of luck |
| 24 | I 'll tell you what sir , he said , I 'll write it down for … here his eyes narrowed a bit , he hesitated , you can … |
| 25 | I did write it down for her in the list . |
| 26 | If it 's photocopied Paul , she did n't write it down for each one of you did she ? |
| 27 | Looks like you 'll have to sort of like put it up for a day and then take it down for a week and put it back in again . |
| 28 | " Write it down for that coach out front . " |
| 29 | 7 Measure the area exactly and scale it down for transfer to squared paper — a large scale would be 1.2 cm ( ½ in ) per 30 cm ( 12 in ) , but if you want to mark in all the plants in all the beds , it would have to be of the order of 5 cm/30 cm ( 2 in/12 in ) . |
| 30 | We see it down for luck . |