Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got to put down every day look there 's a sample for a week |
| 2 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
| 3 | Defoe 's Roxana explains why she has turned down an offer of marriage from a Dutch merchant : ‘ … |
| 4 | Your Mum ca n't afford toilet paper , she has to slide down the banisters . |
| 5 | Then Susan comes in , and when she has put down the tray she is carrying , she turns the light on beside his chair and draws the curtains so that the room becomes a series of pools of light , isolating each of us . |
| 6 | She 'd turned down the offers of promotion because of Emily . |
| 7 | She 'd turned down the only chance she had had . |
| 8 | Leonora , expecting to be taken by storm after she 'd flung down the gauntlet , found Penry in no hurry at all . |
| 9 | It did n't seem at all surprising that she 'd slowed down a little . |
| 10 | It was as if she 'd thrown down an invisible gauntlet on the table , and Shae knew a moment 's bleakness . |
| 11 | The wedding was off , because no way was she going to walk down the aisle looking like an eejit ! |
| 12 | But because she keeps breaking down the details remain confused . |
| 13 | Then , collecting her thoughts , shutting out all sound save that in her headset , she began to take down the message . |
| 14 | She stood aside as Ace floated into the cabin , and without any preliminary checks she started to shut down the spacesuit 's systems . |
| 15 | The secret of Shirley 's success lies in the fact that the tears she sends rolling down the cheek are prompted by laughter , but tinged with the searing kind of sadness associated with unfulfilled hopes . |
| 16 | Melissa closed her eyes and gnawed her thumb as she struggled to nail down the clue that fluttered moth-like in her memory . |
| 17 | She managed to hold down a job as a journalist with a local newspaper , but was finding it increasingly difficult to produce a reasonable standard of work when suffering from PMS , which was sometimes debilitating . |
| 18 | She managed to get down the ladder . |
| 19 | I found that after 2 hours of playing the small adventure game called Wumpus my friends youngest child lost all her worries about pressing the wrong key , except that she kept falling down the cavern when she did . |
| 20 | She remembered looking down the sunny garden and feeling content . |
| 21 | She did slim down a couple of years ago but has piled on the pounds again . |
| 22 | About six months after the dinner party she realised that , for the first time in her life , she had turned down a decent journalistic commission in order to start work for a crazy old lady off Ladbroke Grove , whose garden specialised in old roses , and who was insistent about sterilising soil before new plantings . |
| 23 | I called several hours later , by which time she had calmed down a little , but was smoking one cigarette after another . |
| 24 | Although she felt she had settled down a lot since her last release from prison , she was still having difficulties coping with the day-to-day strain and isolation of being a single parent . |
| 25 | Just the sight of the stamp had been enough to set her heart beating uneasily and she had to fight down the urge to put off reading the words someone had written to her . |
| 26 | It would be awful to get up next morning and find she had drifted down the canal . |
| 27 | She had set down the candle . |
| 28 | It was n't perfect , she reflected after she had put down the telephone , but it was n't bad . |
| 29 | After she had put down the phone , Kelly sat deep in thought . |
| 30 | That was a pretty daft offer , she thought as soon as she had put down the phone . |