Example sentences of "who [vb past] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also he who scribbled down the title ‘ Deeply Dippy ’ one evening when he heard the phrase used in a Fry and Laurie exchange on Jeeves And Wooster . |
| 2 | I think there was somebody called who came down the isle and gave a couple of balloons . |
| 3 | It was they , not we , who threw down the challenge . |
| 4 | Salford , who turned down a Leeds approach for Ian Bragger , yesterday listed Steve Herbert for £20,000 , at his own request . |
| 5 | Blencowe apparently owed his career as a judge to Wallis who turned down a bishopric for himself but asked that his son-in-law be considered for a judicial appointment [ DNB , 20 , 598–602 ] . |
| 6 | But Smith , who turned down a £1 million offer for Whittingham from Wimbledon earlier this year , said : ‘ He 's not for sale and that 's that . ’ |
| 7 | He succeeds Jocelyn Stevens , who turned down a fresh contract , and will pick up his duties with a five-year tenure on 1 August . |
| 8 | This loyal player , who turned down a contract with Ipswich Town to stay in the Province , deserves better treatment . |
| 9 | The Edinburgh " female question " clearly had repercussions outside the city , as can be seen from the reasons given by the Arbiter who turned down the Glasgow compositors " pay-claim in 1904 . |
| 10 | Of these only one , Bonitus , who had been appointed while still a layman , is said to have had scruples about his elevation , although he can be compared with the comes Genesius , who turned down the see prior to the election of Praeiectus . |
| 11 | Coppell , who turned down an indirect approach from Sunderland , has not been helped by the public criticisms of Noades . |
| 12 | A HIT-AND-RUN driver who knocked down a Gaelic footballer and left him dying on a border road has been jailed for six months . |
| 13 | Sir Walter , who hunted down the hart , is therefore a lesser Ancient Mariner . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you remember what I told you , about the woman who called down the curse on your many-times great-grandmother . ’ |
| 15 | Karen Young 's glamorous looks would make her a role model for actress Helen Mirren who tracked down a serial killer in the hit series . |
| 16 | ‘ Or Ted Allen who fell down the inspection pit ? ’ |
| 17 | The dungeons of the Louvre Palace were the antechambers of hell though very few of those who went down the dark stony steps ever emerged to recount their experiences . |
| 18 | The sages who lay down the law in this party have always said that if Ms Aloni left education , where she was ‘ poisoning the innocent souls of Israel 's children ’ , they could contemplate joining Mr Rabin . |
| 19 | Michael Heseltine , The Man Who Brought Down Mrs Thatcher , and last week the man who brought down the house in a dazzling Commons performance . |
| 20 | ‘ Father Abbot , I 'm back from Longner without much gained , for neither of the young men who brought down the timber has anything of note to tell . |
| 21 | ’ You are the one who brought down the spymaster of Aldebaran ? |
| 22 | The troops who lined the streets at his execution kept the spectators out of earshot , but on the platform were two clerks who took down the King 's last speech in shorthand and , somewhat surprisingly , it was published in the London newspapers . |
| 23 | They say many of the prospective owners who put down a fifty thousand pound deposit are now looking to pull out . |
| 24 | Back at the games table he sat down in his straight-backed chair and stared across at Ajayi , who put down the slate she was studying . |
| 25 | Balza , who put down the December 1990 rebellion by the right-wing carapintadas faction of the army [ see p. 37913 ] , declined to comment on former Col. Mohamed Ali Seineldin whose release from prison the attempted coup had been intended to force . |
| 26 | A man who gunned down a drugs dealer who supplied his sons with cannibis , has been jailed for life . |
| 27 | Normally a solemn and serious part of the Catholic liturgy of the Mass , on this occasion its solemnity and seriousness were somewhat dented by the sudden arrival of a very pretty little girl of about four or five , who ran down the centre aisle towards the priest , her pig-tails flying , calling , ‘ Zio Padee ! |
| 28 | He was discovered by a delivery driver , Scott Christie , 25 , who flagged down the ambulance . |
| 29 | Twenty-five years ago , during a period of full employment , employers may sometimes have been right to assume that those who were unemployed or redundant were less effective than those who held down a job . |