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

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1 ‘ The upshot was , though , that she turned me 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 When the voices of Essex and the Cecils combined in unusual harmony to press the claim of Francis Bacon for the office of Solicitor-General , she turned him down .
5 She said he asked her once or twice but she turned him down and he soon got the message . ’
6 But when she turned him down he married her sister instead .
7 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 .
8 She was offered a job in the government and she turned it down !
9 She turned you down . ’
10 ‘ Then she turned you down ! ’
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