Example sentences of "down [noun] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councillors voted to turn down plans for any cuts but still face the prospect of having to make reductions if the government chargecaps the council . |
| 2 | when the members of the newly founded french academies laid down rules for all artists at the court of Louis XIV , they had to conform whether they were painters , sculptors or designers of scenery , props and tapestries . |
| 3 | No they said they were going down town for some Krona . |
| 4 | She then pointed to the recipe — Turkish Stuffing for a whole Roast Sheep — delighted by the disparity between the thought of this sheep and the few ounces of meat a week which begun jotting down recipes for this book after she had been sent back to England in 1945 , owing to her health , from New Delhi , where she had been living with her husband . |
| 5 | The first stage of creating the definition is to write down headings for each of the six CATWOE categories and try to fill them in . |
| 6 | Suspicious of the ‘ two-tier ’ contracts used by some American carriers to drive down pay for all , strikes are threatened over the holiday weekend of May 28th . |