Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] down for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got my name down for pink and blue . |
| 2 | She will slow her pace down for them and keep a close eye on them as they amble along near her , but she will not let them get too far away from the home base . |
| 3 | And all the guys at the back the T T S put my name down for it because they had great hilarity |
| 4 | I put her name down for the local hospice without her permission , because although she defiantly insisted she did n't want anything to do with it , I thought things might change as she deteriorated . |
| 5 | Richard Gere 's wife let her hair down for free at a New York AIDS benefit show . |
| 6 | No , I 've never heard that before , put your name down for your Christmas lunch |
| 7 | You put your guitar down for a second , and just as you turn away there 's a horrible discordant ker-draanngg ! , accompanied , if you 're unlucky , by the even more expensive noise of your headstock suddenly leaving the band to embark on a solo career . |
| 8 | he said he said what he 's gon na do is erm is he 's got his name down for buying a trailer for it as well |
| 9 | ‘ Neil Kinnock , ’ the SNP deputy leader Jim Sillars said , ‘ would boil his granny down for glue to win votes . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However it might be a good idea to put my name down for the ‘ Understanding Racism ’ Course . |
| 12 | If so I 'd like to put my name down for West Ham 's lot , they 're a bit tasty . |
| 13 | So I mean there are other advantages , and the answer is that in in in the long term you are getting your name down for one , so clear a space on your desk |
| 14 | So if you happened to be out of the house working it was too bad , unless you got a house cleaner to put your name down for you . |
| 15 | During training — or later , if I wanted to knock her weight down for any reason — she 'd have one day-old chick a day . |
| 16 | ALIEN star Sigourney Weaver , 43 , above , is letting her hair down for her latest role as America 's first lady in a comedy called Dave . |
| 17 | ‘ After all , he managed to keep his head down for 14 years . ’ |
| 18 | If he was n't home , I 'd go back to the squat and keep my head down for a few days . |
| 19 | If he got his head down for a couple of hours he would be nice and fresh for the evening . |
| 20 | I 'm a bit tired , to be honest ; I 'm going to get my head down for a while . |
| 21 | And like a well-trained dog I stuck an arm in the air and said , ‘ I 'm putting my foot down for the Telethon , how about you ? ’ |
| 22 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 23 | Well , you can put my name down for it , maybe at Christmas for a couple of days . |
| 24 | She stopped and put her case down for a moment to try and collect herself ; her hands were trembling uncontrollably from the weight . |
| 25 | Rory saw his mother 's shoulders move once , and she put her head down for a second , sniffed . |
| 26 | But ‘ the social worker put her name down for an EMI bed — eventually her name came to the top of the waiting list , and the social worker put her in . |
| 27 | From time to time , as she looked up , specks of gritty plaster landed in her eyes and , putting her broom down for a moment , she dabbed them with the corner of her shawl . |
| 28 | Referee Larry Thompson stepped in to save the Hull fighter from further punishment after a sustained assault from Hardy after he had put his man down for a count of eight early in the round . |
| 29 | Gunn was in splendid form : it was just past 7 o'clock , he was the 19th caddie to get his name down for the day and , almost certainly , he would work two jobs before nightfall . |
| 30 | There is still time to get your name down for Donald Hedrick of Kansas State University on : ‘ Flower Power : Shakespearean Deep Bawdy and the Botanical Perverse ’ . |