Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] down [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 3 | Earlier , I had put down a keyboard part to a click track and so Gregg , Matt ( the Bissonette brothers , Dave Lee Roth 's erstwhile rhythm section — Ed ) and myself went and did Cryin ' . |
| 4 | As usual , once I had put down the wheelbarrow , I had stiffened up and been able to think only of aches and pains . |
| 5 | There was a brass stand holding walking-sticks , and a dark oak settle where someone had thrown down a Barbour coat and an old anorak . |
| 6 | This year of 1944 saw the supreme Japanese effort to break the deadlock which had bogged down the Burma front . |
| 7 | The blast which had flung down the doors at the front had strangely left the windows intact , but when Pat arrived home it was decided that it would be better to leave Julia in the bed in the cellar . |
| 8 | Returning to the Maison Caressa at Nice , he persuaded the factory which had turned down the project fifteen years earlier to manufacture " a certain quantity " of 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato according to his own specification . |
| 9 | Was Miss Fergusson comparing the earthquake which had thrown down the village of Arghuri to the great Flood itself ? |
| 10 | The windscreen was splattered with spittle which had dribbled down the glass and dried . |
| 11 | Although she felt she had settled down a lot since her last release from prison , she was still having difficulties coping with the day-to-day strain and isolation of being a single parent . |
| 12 | It would be awful to get up next morning and find she had drifted down the canal . |
| 13 | She had set down the candle . |
| 14 | After she had put down the phone , Kelly sat deep in thought . |
| 15 | That was a pretty daft offer , she thought as soon as she had put down the phone . |
| 16 | When she had put down the phone , Sandra leapt out of her seat . |
| 17 | It was n't perfect , she reflected after she had put down the telephone , but it was n't bad . |
| 18 | Before he could respond , she had put down the telephone . |
| 19 | She tried to smile a real smile at her father , who had run down the town to be here for the big moment . |
| 20 | Mitchell , who had turned down a place in Scotland 's team for the world cross-country trial to concentrate on his marathon commitments , clocked 2hr 21min 56 sec . |
| 21 | Rangers got no joy , either , from a referee who had turned down a first-half penalty claim for hand ball and was similarly unmoved when Huistra fell after making contact with Dykstra . |
| 22 | But the guy who joined Cyril at that time , Cliff Barton , was a buddy of mine who lived opposite me , and who had turned down the gig with Mayall . |
| 23 | He seldom apologised in a tough league , but felt moved to once after a particularly loud , prolonged and slanderous outburst against a small , bespectacled umpire who had turned down an appeal : ‘ Sorry , umpire . |
| 24 | The judge said during the raid Munn stood in front of the counter and the man who had broken down the screen handed him out the £6,460 from the teller 's cash drawers . |
| 25 | Sarah herself knew many women who had moonlighted down the Bayswater Road to supplement meagre war pensions or National Assistance . |
| 26 | But to me as I struggled with his detoxifying diet , he was a disembodied , stern sounding voice , a god who had handed down the law . |
| 27 | ‘ I do not think if we had put down a motion which said we believe in motherhood and sliced bread the Labour Party would have backed us , ’ he said . |
| 28 | We had brought down the President of France . |
| 29 | The outlet into the Meloch was obvious once we had slashed down a bit of undergrowth , and so was the confluence with the Dee , but where , under the sizeable area euphemistically called the drive , was the tunnel ? |
| 30 | They had trampled down the rye ahead of their line to make a killing ground some sixty yards deep and , judging by the sound of their musketry , the Dutch-Belgian skirmishers were fighting with a brisk energy . |