Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] down for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was being towed to the breakers when she began to take in water ( probably through the conning tower hatch which was only lashed down for the tow ) and sank . |
| 2 | He stopped then , and picked her up , shouldering his way into the bedroom with the large double bed already turned down for the night . |
| 3 | She was disconcerted to find that she walked into what was the main bedroom , dominated by a four-poster bed already turned down for the night . |
| 4 | ‘ She 's a tough customer , ’ remarked Melissa when they had finally settled down for the night . |
| 5 | The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time . |
| 6 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 7 | But this also breaks down for the same reason and so we resolve the problem by taking what is valid from thesis and antithesis to form a synthesis . |
| 8 | It was dark and well stormy by the time I got to the Aurora Corona Rest Home and the residents were probably battened down for the night . |
| 9 | Asik immediately reached down for the delicacy and carefully slipped it into his shorts . |
| 10 | LLANDUDNO General Hospital will be virtually closed down for the next few days while the scale of the damage is assessed . |
| 11 | She pushed at the curl , then reached down for the shoulder-bag that lay at her feet and dug out an ebony hair pick . |