Before the 1996 – 97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £ 12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford but the offer was turned down and Shearer opted for Newcastle instead.

`` We've been looking for work, but all the ranchers have turned us down ''.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

Then she turned the station wagon around and headed it back down the hill, with the village as her ostensible destination.

Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;

hollyhock blossoms that, turned upside down, make pink-petticoated ladies ; ;

At last her lawyer, Arthur D. Cloud, gave up the case because she turned down three successive settlements he arranged.

But every time I suggested this to her, Mrs. Wright turned it down and demanded that I go out and punish Mr. Wright.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

Well, the Theatre Guild kept that play, and kept it, and finally in December they turned it down.

Smiling at his quixotic thoughts, Warren turned back from the opening and lit a cigarette before sitting down.

Afraid at one and the same time that his work might be turned down -- which would be a blow to his pride even though no one knew he was the author -- and that the work would be accepted, and then that his violent feelings in the matter would certainly betray how deeply concerned he was in spite of himself.

Plunking themselves down on the front bench, they turned to smirk at those around them.

The covers slid down his skinny neck so I saw his head, fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed, but his face was turned to the wall -- there was the pale shadow of his nose on the plaster -- and I thought, Well you don't look much like a pig-drunk bully now.

The doctor shot down to the lavatory and turned the doorknob, but to no effect: the lavatory was occupied.

In the military field, incoming orders turned down early in the year, and remained rather slow until late fall when the upturn in procurement of equipment began to make itself felt in rising orders for components.

Whenever artists, indeed, turned to actual representations or molded three-dimensional figures, which were rare down to 800 B.C., they tended to reflect reality ( see Plate 6a, 9b ) ; ;

And Jarrodsville was more than three miles away, down an old dirt road that the rain had turned into a quagmire.

Muller, nakedly exposed at the bright window like a deer pinned in a car's headlights, threw down the rifle and turned to jump from the table ; ;

Only an occasional tip turned out to be a phony, and, like the police, Casey had made a point of running down all such suggestions and he did not hesitate this time.

Pittsburgh turned him down, just as Pittsburgh society had been snubbing him for years.

He threw a smart salute at the gangway, went up the dock, and turned down the wide street in front of the Petty Officers' Club.

I turned and watched him stride down the center of the road.

I had turned at the corner of the field and I had to look back to raise the plow and then to drop it again into the earth, and I was thinking of the boy and the water anyway, and when I looked again down the furrow, the snake was there.

They had all turned down his son.

Charles Burke got turned down by Dartmouth and he is a straight-A student ''.

When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.

152-153 .</ ref > The moon and sun are likewise considered to be flat and floating on streams of air, and when the sun sets it does not pass under the earth but is merely obscured by higher parts of the earth as it circles around and becomes more distant ; the motion of the sun and the other celestial bodies around the earth is likened by Anaximenes to the way that a cap may be turned around the head .< ref > Fairbanks, Arthur.

Schanze and a friend discovered a " stamp " on the flat metal sheet, which upon further inspection turned out to be a faded copy of the Apollo 16 mission insignia.

The sole plate is then either rested flat on the workpiece overhanging the edge so that the cutting bit is not contacting the work ( and then entering the work from the side once the motor is turned on ), or the sole plate is placed at an angle with the bit above the work and the bit is " rocked " over into the work once the motor is turned on.

Early cakes in England were also essentially bread: the most obvious differences between a " cake " and " bread " were the round, flat shape of the cakes, and the cooking method, which turned cakes over once while cooking, while bread was left upright throughout the baking process.

He turned round, seized the sword of Odysseus, tied his hands, and drove him along in front, beating his back with the flat of his sword.

Suspended gongs are played with hammers and are of two main types: flat faced discs either with or without a turned edge, and gongs with a raised centre boss.

It is almost flat except for the rim, which is turned up to make a shallow cylinder.

Additionally, using a screensaver with a flat panel or LCD screen instead of powering down the screen can actually reduce the lifetime of the display, since the fluorescent backlight remains lit and ages faster than it would if the screen were turned off completely.

It features a wider than normal bit, whose outside edges are sharply turned up, so that when gazing directly down the adze, from bit to eye, the cutting edge resembles an extremely wide and often very flat U. This adze was mainly used for shaping cross grain, such as for joining planks.

Then the hammer is turned over to use the flat face and the tops of the ridges are hammered down level with the bottoms of the indentations.

In interviews, Dietrich stated that she had been approached by representatives of the Nazi Party to return to Germany, but had turned them down flat.

Segmentation cannot be turned off on x86-32 processors ( this is true for 64-bit mode as well, but beyond the scope of discussion ), so many 32-bit operating systems simulate a flat memory model by setting all segments ' bases to 0 in order to make segmentation neutral to programs.

Bumper car is the generic name for a type of flat ride consisting of several small electric cars which draw power from the floor and / or ceiling, and which are turned on and off remotely by an operator.

In the extreme it is even possible to produce a cymbal that appears to have been turned then hammered, by a single operation of a press starting with a flat metal sheet.

They turned him down, and the American Alpine Club agreed to print a few thousand copies for a flat fee.

Orwell and O ' Shaughnessy met at a party that Eric ( Orwell ) and Rosalind Obermeyer, gave in the spring of 1935 in Obermeyer's flat in Parliament Hill Road-" when the last guests had departed, he turned to Mrs Obermeyer and said: " Eileen O ' Shaughnessy is the girl I want to marry.

Early in May 1997, at Hugh's flat, they all come together to have an election party ( with the TV turned off ), clinging to what has been left of their left-wing ideals and reminiscing about the old days.

The world knows I was asked in on the deal and my friends know how I turned it down flat.

The moulds are turned every six to twelve hours to allow the whey to drain evenly from the cut curds ; after 48 hours, each mould contains a flat, cylindrical, solid cheese mass weighing approximately 350 grams ( about 12 oz ).

The Westie's paws are slightly turned out in order to give it better grip than flat footed breeds when it climbs on rocky surfaces.

The ankles are turned outward as the tops of the feet are lowered so that, in a slight " V " shape, the tops of the feet are flat on the floor and big toes are overlapped, and the buttocks are finally lowered all the way down.

In one incident, he promised his players a bonus for winning the 1919 pennant — the " bonus " turned out to be a case of flat champagne.