Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] down for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Charles , you remember — Juliet and Miles invited you down for lunch . ’ |
| 2 | Rumour had it the owner of the Gazi burned it down for the insurance money . |
| 3 | " He carried off his subjects ' wives , daughters and kinswomen by force and made them his concubines ; when he had sated his own lust on them he handed them down for his soldiers to enjoy . |
| 4 | He will inundate us with charters — and all because London Transport turned him down for a job . |
| 5 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When they asked her down for meals she did n't come . |
| 8 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 9 | Mr Cheney promptly slapped him down for speaking out of turn , which had more to do with Pentagon power play than strategy . |
| 10 | She may , for example , lay it down for a few seconds while she opens the entrance to her hole . |
| 11 | Septimus brought it down for me one Christmastime when I was just a girl — before the last war anyhow . |
| 12 | He hurried the will into proper form and brought it down for signature . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A left-hook hurt Ekubia in the sixth round , and then another put him down for a count of nine . |
| 15 | A lot of women put her down for working with a man , especially one like Francis , camp as Christmas in Tangiers , a slow fuse of lasciviousness smouldered in every phrase . |
| 16 | So er he carried them down for me . |
| 17 | I wrote them down for each person . |
| 18 | ‘ Virtually as soon as she was born our mum had her down for dancing classes , never mind football . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | You held her down for the other one . |