Example sentences of "[pron] down for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of putting them down for the afternoon , I 'd like to be able to do something with them . |
| 2 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |
| 3 | Obviously the car must contain some high-ranking officer , probably a general , who would not be at all pleased to find an important branch of M.I.9 in the process of closing itself down for the weekend early on a Saturday morning . |
| 4 | He might not have been able to dodge the water , but they 'd never pinned him down for the Instruction . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | And was still wondering some half an hour later when Rosa had settled her down for the night but frustration , sharper than any pangs of hunger , was keeping her awake . |
| 7 | She expected Urquhart but found first a message from her brother inviting her down for the weekend . |
| 8 | Rumour had it the owner of the Gazi burned it down for the insurance money . |
| 9 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 10 | On application they literally digest smells by producing enzymes which attack the source of the odour , breaking it down for the bacteria to absorb . |
| 11 | 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 |