Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] down for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The assassin has marked us down for death , but first he is playing with us like a cat does with a mouse . |
| 2 | The bloke says bring it down for today . |
| 3 | She rocked the baby in her arms , refusing to put her down for a minute , and she sang snatches of lullabies she remembered her mother singing so many years ago . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter . |
| 6 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Granville Again was out of form with a few niggling problems , so after talking to Michael I decided to let him down for a break then bring him back to his peak for one day — this day . ’ |
| 9 | She might have put me down for talking . |
| 10 | She could have put me down for talking |
| 11 | I did write it down for her in the list . |
| 12 | But at this second exhibition Flatpattern 's ex-wife , who has been trying to track him down for alimony , appears , denounces him and the syndicate and mayhem breaks out . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 15 | Rodney said , ‘ We 've put you down for dinner , seeing as you chickened out again last night . ’ |
| 16 | I 've been trying to pin him down for weeks . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Oh well , I do n't think this is the kind of place you have to put them down for at birth . |
| 18 | If we examine God not as protagonist and moral bully but as author of this story , we have to mark him down for plot , motivation , suspense and characterisation . |
| 19 | Angela is planning a traditional wedding but the dresses she had seen were too romantic and frilly , and she was unsure about what to do with her make-up as she normally wears quite strong colours but felt she wanted to tone them down for her wedding day . |