Example sentences of "pin [pers pn] down " in BNC.

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1 By that I do not mean than one can not pin them down to set feeding patterns on specific waters .
2 Talking at the launch of the Rothmans Rugby Union Yearbook , Serfontein added : ‘ We will take sanctions against clubs if we can pin them down . ’
3 Circumstances beyond your control will pin you down until Friday .
4 Covering fire kept his head down as somewhere flankers began their move that would finally pin him down .
5 It took a while before anyone issued a Shabba album , perhaps because he was so popular in reggae 's ‘ get a money ’ freelance business that no producer could pin him down long enough to cut enough sides .
6 So , hoisting her bag over her shoulder with an element of pride that for a brief moment made her lose sight of how important it was to try and pin him down for an interview , she made for the door .
7 As she ran along the track to the road , she had an eerie sense that she was acting out something she had done before , but she could not pin it down until she reached the road and turned right , towards the village .
8 It evoked some distant memory but he could n't quite pin it down .
9 It 'll really pin it down . ’
10 They 'll pin us down and then swarm all over us . ’
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