Example sentences of "but she [verb] [pers pn] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally she turned the book over and read the brief notes about the author ; and her deep unease of earlier that morning returned , but she crushed it down . |
| 2 | Hitchcock wanted her for The Birds but she turned him down . |
| 3 | ROMANTIC radio newsman Graham Whyte proposed to girlfriend Claire Ward while the pair were wing-walking 2,000 feet above a Merseyside air show — but she turned him down . |
| 4 | She said he asked her once or twice but she turned him down and he soon got the message . ’ |
| 5 | John Major is understood to have offered her a junior minister 's job at the Home Office , but she turned it down on the grounds that it was not sufficiently senior . |