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turned and down
`` 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 ''.

turned and offer
However, in 1778 Gluck turned down an offer to compose the inaugural opera for La Scala in Milan ; upon the suggestion of Joseph II and with the approval of Gluck, Salieri was offered the commission, which he gratefully accepted.
At the same meeting, Grishin was asked to chair the commission responsible for Chernenko's funeral ; Grishin turned down the offer, claiming that Gorbachev was closer to Chernenko than he was.
An offer to lease it to nearby Fulham was turned down, so Mears opted to found his own club to use the stadium.
While Day turned down a tribute offer from the American Film Institute, she received and accepted the Golden Globe's Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in 1989.
After much pleading, Wallach finally relented and turned down the other offer and waited for Leone to raise enough Hollywood money for the picture.
Raimi turned down the offer, but De Laurentiis continued to be interested in the young filmmaker.
In 1973, Gygax attempted to publish the game through Avalon Hill, who turned down his offer.
Gertrude Whitney decided to put the time and money into the museum after the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art turned down her offer to contribute her twenty-five-year collection of modern art works.
However, World War I broke out in August 1914, and Moseley turned down this job offer to enlist in the Royal Engineers of the British Army instead.
They offered to exchange him for Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, who had surrendered after Stalingrad, but Stalin turned the offer down, stating " You have in your hands not only my son Yakov but millions of my sons.
He was touted as a possible Conservative candidate for the Mayor of London elections in 2008, but turned down an offer from Conservative leader David Cameron.
Monroe decided on political grounds not to offer Henry Clay the State Department, and Clay turned down the War Department and remained Speaker of the House, so Monroe lacked an outstanding westerner in his cabinet.
After he had turned down an offer to play Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady, he found it easier to rebuff others, including a part in The Godfather Part II.
Davis turned down the offer, stating that it was inconsistent with his duty as a senator.
Falk was proud to tell people that Marlon Brando turned down an offer of $ 10, 000 per week on Broadway, in favor of working on Falk's play in Boston.
FutureWave approached Adobe Systems with an offer to sell them FutureSplash in 1995, but Adobe turned them down at that time.
New neighbours Derek and Betty McVitie replaced the Trenches for the 1997 special " Endgame ", however this turned out to be their only appearances in the series and they were said to have emigrated by the penultimate episode which caused Nick Swainey to leap straight in with the offer for their old house.
Domenico Tardini and Giovanni Montini would be elevated and Pius XII informed the assembled cardinals that both of them were originally on the top of his list, but they had turned down the offer, and were rewarded instead with other promotions.
To prepare for a crusade, Boniface ordered Venice and Genoa to sign a truce ; they fought each other for three more years, and turned down his offer to mediate peace.
They also made many appearances in major print media and on radio and TV, including multiple appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the Late Show with David Letterman in the U. S. The Presidents turned down an offer to perform on Saturday Night Live in the fall of 1995 because the date conflicted with Ballew's wedding.
The emperor turned down the offer.
When Julia took the offer seriously and pleaded for the opportunity, and Grant earnestly objected, she turned silent, indignant and quite disappointed.
However, Le Guin, who was unfamiliar with his work and anime in general, turned down the offer.
( Fixx, and Greystone ) that were brought to the 20th century ( their teammate Archer, who also came back in time, turned down an offer to join )).
Arafat turned down the offer without making a counter-offer.

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