Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] down for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |
| 2 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 3 | On application they literally digest smells by producing enzymes which attack the source of the odour , breaking it down for the bacteria to absorb . |
| 4 | Obviously the car must contain some high-ranking officer , probably a general , who would not be at all pleased to find an important branch of M.I.9 in the process of closing itself down for the weekend early on a Saturday morning . |
| 5 | She expected Urquhart but found first a message from her brother inviting her down for the weekend . |
| 6 | You write to an imaginary friend , you 're inviting him down for the summer holidays and you say all that , all about the sort of things that you 're planning to do with them , make it up |
| 7 | Instead of putting them down for the afternoon , I 'd like to be able to do something with them . |