Example sentences of "she had [verb] [pers pn] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Giorgio had descended on us that day in the train he had asked her to advance him the money to build the new car , and when she had turned him down he was furious . |
| 2 | He had offered her the front seat for the last leg , but she had turned it down . |
| 3 | She was exhausted ; more so because of the alarmed way she had sprung out of reach whenever Guy had become restless , than from the number of times she had sponged him down in an attempt to cool his fever . |
| 4 | He did not know if she had written it down in the letter , or if the cake was to be his punishment for all the bad things he had done . |
| 5 | It was all so unreal , she felt she had to write it down to prove it was happening , to have it and hold it to her heart . |
| 6 | They said goodbye and she felt she had let him down , that her unresponsiveness had been noted but not commented upon . |
| 7 | She often felt that she had let him down . |
| 8 | She had let them down , medical science had let them down . |
| 9 | By now it must have been obvious to her host that she had put him down as a direct descendant of Casanova , Don Juan or Jack the Ripper — or possibly a combination of all three . |
| 10 | Rose had noticed this and she had put it down to the awe and respect in which the man she so loved was held , and she was loath to see differently now . |
| 11 | The gun lay on the covers , where she had put it down while they were talking . |
| 12 | On that occasion she had put it down to the letter from Doreen , but now she began to wonder if the real cause of his irritation had stemmed from the fact that he had embraced her . |
| 13 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |