Example sentences of "[vb pp] down for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , as they left the shuttle lounge at Heathrow , mixed in with the commuters and shoppers who had come down for the day , Adam saw the tail . |
| 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 | I think that it was when he got turned down for the job of a bus conductor . |
| 5 | More than two negative reasons for accepting a job can take a heavy toll on your resources of enthusiasm , particularly if you had the added disappointment of being turned down for the post you 'd really hoped for at the time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The bands started playing around 11 in the evening and , basically , people did n't go there for the music but to get a sleep if they lived too far out from central London to get home after the tubes had closed down for the night . |
| 8 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 9 | Outside , Baker Street was closed down for the weekend except for the Barracuda Club , which had taken over from the original School Dinners restaurant after it moved across the road to usurp the No. 34 Wine Bar . |
| 10 | My maternal grandmother was living with us at the time , it having been decided that her flat in Highgate should be closed down for the duration of the war , and she circulated between the homes of her son and three daughters so that she could be looked after . |
| 11 | Asik immediately reached down for the delicacy and carefully slipped it into his shorts . |
| 12 | How then can the term ‘ mass medium ’ be pinned down for the period 1945 — 90 ? |
| 13 | Rules were laid down for the management of schools , and the provision of finance by local authorities . |
| 14 | Under English evidential law , specific provisions are laid down for the submission and use of computer records in court . |
| 15 | To reduce the possibility of the lining materials , used for the construction of walls and ceilings , contributing to the initial fire spread within the building , performance standards are laid down for the reaction to fire of the materials used for the exposed surfaces . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's a tough customer , ’ remarked Melissa when they had finally settled down for the night . |
| 18 | In the Newport hundreds , where the level of lay assessments was low and left substantially unchanged by the subsidy , the proportion of wealth owned by the Church was much higher than in the more advanced Chilterns , not only in 1522 but also after the initial assessments had been scaled down for the subsidy . |
| 19 | You may laugh , but already deposits worth £30,000 have been put down for the book and at least 5,000 people have telephoned bookshops to express an interest . |
| 20 | Lower bruised his left leg and was stood down for the rest of the afternoon by the course doctors . |
| 21 | On this occasion , everything was shut down for the night but in the morning when the armourers were about to start work , something went wrong . |
| 22 | Nicholson , who is being paid a handsome £5 million , is reported to have immersed himself so completely in the part that he wanders around the set mumbling the notorious Hoffa 's favourite phrases — even after the cameras have shut down for the night . |
| 23 | Most businesses , including much of Hollywood , have shut down for the day . |
| 24 | I 'm sitting up on a hillside looking down on Lollapalooza , by a ski lodge which is shut down for the summer . |