Example sentences of "close down for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The bands started playing around 11 in the evening and , basically , people did n't go there for the music but to get a sleep if they lived too far out from central London to get home after the tubes had closed down for the night . |
2 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
3 | Outside , Baker Street was closed down for the weekend except for the Barracuda Club , which had taken over from the original School Dinners restaurant after it moved across the road to usurp the No. 34 Wine Bar . |
4 | My maternal grandmother was living with us at the time , it having been decided that her flat in Highgate should be closed down for the duration of the war , and she circulated between the homes of her son and three daughters so that she could be looked after . |
5 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
6 | It 's a strange thing the way hotels in Scotland close down for the winter . |
7 | When these shops close down for the night , the sound of heavy breathing from their stock must rival that of a porn cinema . |
8 | One cafe and clothesshop owner says he was forced to close down for the weekend . |
9 | BBC closed down for the rest of the day , except for news . ’ |
10 | Out of the short-wave receiver comes a scratchy-hum , and for a few bleary seconds I think it 's a radio station closed down for the night . |
11 | Several factories in Northamptonshire , anticipating the drift to the County Ground for the mid-week game , closed down for the day , but in Northampton itself factory workers were allowed the afternoon off only if they made up for it in overtime . |