Sentence examples for down for a part from inspiring English sources

D. W. Griffith once turned Valentino down for a part with the comment: "He's too foreign-looking.

When asked how he managed to cry in a particularly emotional scene, he said he recalled how Mr. Payne had turned him down for a part in "Sideways" "and the tears just flowed".

A tight sweater and pegged jeans gave the appearance of a film actress dressed slightly down for a part as the girlfriend of a jazz musician or Beat poet.

Huffman's performance is brilliant and courageous - particularly the moment Bree whips out her penis to pee by an Arizona roadside; if Charlize Theron wants lessons in dressing down for a part, she should watch this.

Did you have to learn how to handle being turned down for a part?

The hardest part was not being turned down for a part, it was not getting a part after I'd waited around for a full day.

(I had just been turned down for a part-time job supervising naptime at a day-care center. Apparently other applicants were more qualified).

Parts of the website, including the results and sign in page, were down for a large part of Wednesday night with an error message explaining they were "extremely busy".

However, there was a police inspector, Javert, who never forgot or forgave him and continued to hunt him down for a large part of both their lives.

The results confirmed that pigs of all weight categories lie down for a great part of the day: the average numbers of pigs that were lying were 83.8, 85, 86.3 and 87.5% at 30, 50, 80 and 100 kg live weight.

This is how things are looking on stock markets, where there has been support from the UK's upward GDP growth revision, traders say: FTSE 100 +0.5% at 6482 CAC40 -0.3% at 4047 Dax Unchanged at 8401 In the US, futures point to a flat start on Wall Street after yesterday's upheaval when the Nasdaq was down for a large part of the trading session.