Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] down for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Battling Dave Cannon sprayed a whole trailer-load of the cow muck over a council building after plans for his retirement bungalow were turned down for the fourth time . |
| 2 | Rules were laid down for the management of schools , and the provision of finance by local authorities . |
| 3 | Others , their duties finished , were settling down for the night on their pallets in front of the fires . |
| 4 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And when we went then after Christmas the shop was closed down for the |
| 7 | At dusk , passing through the countryside , everything was slowing down for the night . |
| 8 | Luke says that , in her case , the offering was laid down for the poor : |
| 9 | In 1749 for the first time a single system of tactics was laid down for the entire army , while in 1765 the Hofkriegsrath assumed the power to appoint to all ranks above that of captain and from 1776 an organized State military transport corps began to be built up . |
| 10 | He had one fight in 1984 and was knocked down for the first time in his career . |
| 11 | Another £100.000 was put down for the National Union of Journalists , despite its clear and well-known policy of not investing in newspapers because of the inevitable conflict of interest in its role as champion of higher wages for journalists . |
| 12 | Around me the camp was settling down for the night , bricks securing groundsheets , tent flaps tied tight , kerosene lamps hissing away their shadows . |
| 13 | Lower bruised his left leg and was stood down for the rest of the afternoon by the course doctors . |
| 14 | 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 . |