Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] down for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 2 | I wrote them down for each person . |
| 3 | So you count , you hold it down for three . |
| 4 | So remember you hold it down for the right length and quickly take your hand off , as soon as you 've done it . |
| 5 | Why you writing it down for ? |
| 6 | I 'm just can you put me down for some paracetamols for the pain |
| 7 | What did you put me down for accent ? |
| 8 | You held her down for the other one . |
| 9 | We see it down for luck . |
| 10 | When they asked her down for meals she did n't come . |
| 11 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 12 | " 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So er he carried them down for me . |