Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] down for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Charles , you remember — Juliet and Miles invited you down for lunch . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Put him down for x-ray , Sister , and we 'll see . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When fate marks you down for immortality you 'd just better bite the bullet and lace your boots up tight . |
| 5 | I 'll boil you down for soap . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now I won that game , losing just two ‘ pieces ’ , but only after I left with the comeliest ‘ piece ’ of all , a wench from the imperial harem , did Suleiman discover that I had cheated and publicly marked me down for death . |
| 8 | ‘ The assassin has marked us down for death , but first he is playing with us like a cat does with a mouse . |
| 9 | He hurried the will into proper form and brought it down for signature . |
| 10 | What did you put me down for accent ? |
| 11 | Rodney said , ‘ We 've put you down for dinner , seeing as you chickened out again last night . ’ |
| 12 | Eyeing Gwen Bear , she wondered if she ought to take her down for company , then gave an enchanting little giggle . |
| 13 | 7 Measure the area exactly and scale it down for transfer to squared paper — a large scale would be 1.2 cm ( ½ in ) per 30 cm ( 12 in ) , but if you want to mark in all the plants in all the beds , it would have to be of the order of 5 cm/30 cm ( 2 in/12 in ) . |
| 14 | We see it down for luck . |