Example sentences of "[vb infin] down for the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I I do n't know whether M A F F would object , but they did lay down for the selection of their site .
2 It considered that if the Community 's system of quotas in its present form allowed member states to introduce certain requirements whose compatibility with Community law could only be justified by the necessity to attain the objectives of that system , then such requirements could only be incorporated into the quota licences or other quota management measures which the United Kingdom must lay down for the management of its quotas under article 5(2) of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 , and not be imposed as conditions for the registration of vessels .
3 An imaginative pragmatist judge might be tempted , for example , to divorce the question of what rule he should lay down for the future from the question of how he should decide the case before him .
4 He would come down for the weekend before and see to the final arrangements , of various things .
5 If I 've had a big bill , occasionally I 've had to say to my mum ‘ I 've no money left , can I come down for the week ? ’ and I 've had to go down there .
6 Are you gon na come down for the festival ?
7 Er they would n't go and sit down for the story with all the other children sit at , sat on my knee on the floor for a short while .
8 There was the evening meal to prepare and Rachel to wash , feed and settle down for the night .
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