Example sentences of "[noun sg] down for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Gere 's wife let her hair down for free at a New York AIDS benefit show . |
| 2 | There are a number of accessories for the sander , including a sanding frame to allow even sanding of large areas , and a frame to hold the tool upside down for stationary use . |
| 3 | And why is why is going upside down for two minutes twice a day gon na make it grow again ? |
| 4 | During training — or later , if I wanted to knock her weight down for any reason — she 'd have one day-old chick a day . |
| 5 | Yes it 's now going to take two years longer I think than was originally er contended , to what extent is this due to technical difficulties and to what extent is it due to one of our partners and Germany one 's thinking of in particular , wishing to slow the programme down for fiscal reasons ? |
| 6 | I 'm going to put some more stuff down for those . |
| 7 | I do n't , I think we must do , because it underlines it 's it 's as sp , it 's been a slow spiral down for these people , and we 're getting now , very near to the bottom where we 're not going to be able to help any of them at all . |
| 8 | ‘ After all , he managed to keep his head down for 14 years . ’ |
| 9 | I know what I need , to put my head down for half an hour this afternoon I wo n't be fit for nothing the night . |
| 10 | Then slow the pace down for two minutes before hiking it up again . |
| 11 | Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 . |
| 12 | Put cutlery in the basket with the handle down for best results . |
| 13 | two sixty , if you 've got a bad phone it used to drag the paging down for all others , where if you 've got paint in the socket |
| 14 | They gave me two options , basically one was to take the system down for twenty four hours and er while they got , they caught up with the jobs which I , I , I 've knocked on the head . |
| 15 | It burnt the whole factory down for some reason |
| 16 | A meeting in March should have resolved some of the present issues but the long-term future of the Biennale still presents difficulties : ‘ Let's have the centenary then close the Biennale down for good ’ is the recent opinion of Gianni de Michelis , Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs . |