Example sentences of "[pers pn] turn down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in the bathroom , so I turns down the bed , and goes . ’ |
| 2 | Upon receiving a degree which would allow me to undertake research , I turned down a place which I had been offered to study theology , and went to Oxford . |
| 3 | ‘ I turned down a new contract at the end of the season , even though it meant getting a testimonial next year because I 've got to be playing in the Premier League to confirm my place in the Irish side . |
| 4 | I turned down a couple of T V series cos I did n't feel I was right for them . |
| 5 | A television play or four weeks away in repertory was OK , but I finally lost my agent when I turned down an interview for a job in June , ‘ because I 'll be picking the gooseberries ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ He has suggested , though , that the two practices should merge , and seemed amazed when I turned down the idea . |
| 7 | Do you mind if I turn down the gas fire ? ’ |
| 8 | That evening she turned down a prior supper engagement , pleading a headache . |
| 9 | She turned down The Fabulous Baker Boys , a film which made Michelle Pfeiffer an international superstar and an Oscar nominee , because ‘ I felt it was n't right for me ’ . |
| 10 | The birthday princess was serenaded by Phil the year she turned down the offer of a party from Charles . |
| 11 | She turned down the gas and hurried to intercept the intruder . |
| 12 | She turned down the heat quicKly but some of the fat had splashed on to the flames and the blue smoke increased in density . |
| 13 | Shrugging , she turned down the right-hand one , looking for ‘ likely doors ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Is that why you turned down the fifth series ? ’ |
| 15 | If you turn down the job you may feel even more upset — if you eventually have to resign , at least you 'll have tested out your resources . |
| 16 | We turned down a flagrantly suburban side-street near the football ground . |
| 17 | The snow crunched a protest under the car wheels , as we turned down the country road which led to our home , thoughts of a hot cup of tea uppermost in our minds . |
| 18 | We turned down the offer of researching exactly how many men we 'd get to 3,000 feet of urinals , but allowing a couple of feet for each one , 1,500 men would make Wembley the tops for discriminating against women . |
| 19 | MORE than 170 Bosnian refugees have been refused visas to enter Britain , only hours after they turned down an asylum offer from Spain . |
| 20 | ‘ Some Americans wanted to open up the Spurling yard , and offered big money to the Borough Council , but that useless lot — that bunch of pen-pushers — they turned down the offer in favour of the Japanese . |
| 21 | They turned down the offer of free council flat in a city where 2,000 people are on a long-term homeless list . |
| 22 | But after magistrates heard from the pig centre and from the RSPCA , they turned down the application . |
| 23 | The taxi dropped off one of the passengers , and the offenders instructed the driver to take them to a farm club , and then asked him to turn down a farm track . |
| 24 | But French officials were initially suspicious and the Soviet KGB security police forced him to turn down a French passport . |
| 25 | But they 're worried that if they turn down the property they may not get another . |
| 26 | In one letter to Susanna Highmore , he turns down the offer of a sonnet to be prefixed to Leapor 's second volume : |
| 27 | So it might be possible for a 50-year-old with a heart condition to be acting reasonably if he turned down a job involving more stress and daily travel , whereas a 30-year-old executive with no personal problems who rejected the same offer might forfeit his claim to statutory redundancy pay . |
| 28 | He turned down a job in a famous public school and wrote to Aunt Lilian , a long , very high-flown letter , saying that he believed social segregation in education to be totally wrong and that he could have no part in perpetuating it . |
| 29 | Second , he turned down a proposal from the Kennedy administration to create a Multilateral Nuclear Force ( MLF ) , in which British and French nuclear forces would have been integrated with some American forces under NATO command . |
| 30 | He turned down a side-street , slowing as he slid in behind another vehicle . |