Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [pers pn] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the day , for bringing them down . |
| 2 | I was just worried that you 'd be furious with me for bringing them down here when you were out of the country . |
| 3 | HOW arrogant of David Mellor to blame the tabloids for bringing him down when it was his own folly . |
| 4 | You can keep your reason for hunting me down to yourself . ’ |
| 5 | She looks a little hot and flustered at the moment , which I 'm afraid is my fault for rushing her down here at very little notice . |
| 6 | She realised , with hindsight , that he had n't forgiven her either for turning him down soon after she 'd joined the team . |
| 7 | A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down . |
| 8 | He offers them another unsettling peacemaking idea ; they invent another excuse for turning it down . |
| 9 | She apologized for slowing him down and twice advised him to leave her . |
| 10 | She seems to have a gift for calming them down . ’ |
| 11 | For some reason I had a talent for calming him down . |
| 12 | Her sister would blame Claudia for tracking her down ; she would n't believe she 'd had little choice in the matter . |
| 13 | It is n't giving away much of the story to say that Miranda at first sees her mother 's behaviour — alternately doing everything she can to please her husband and then screaming rage at him for letting her down — as a clear example of women 's oppression . |
| 14 | I will never forgive him for letting her down . |
| 15 | Girls can be praised for paying boys back in their own currency , for cutting them down to size , or for challenging the male domination of the music business . |
| 16 | Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover . |
| 17 | Thanks for taking me down anyway . |
| 18 | It came from a very smart left-hand catch by Hick , his sixth of the match , a reprimand by gesture to WCM for putting him down as having missed a catch ( Aqib ) in the Lord 's Test which actually fell an inch or two short of Hick 's fingers . |
| 19 | Whereas now I mean it 's a case of if you lose anything it 's your own fault for putting it down . |
| 20 | Penal reformers , especially those concerned with children , have consequently argued for playing it down , and penal legislation ( again , mostly in relation to children ) has sometimes responded . |
| 21 | Quiss apologized for setting it down on a hotplate , put it on a draining board instead , and splashed some water over its mask-face . |