Example sentences of "have drop [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CAR crime on Merseyside has dropped for the first time in three years but the rate is still one offence every 20 minutes . |
| 2 | CAR crime on Merseyside has dropped for the first time in three years but there is still one offence every 20 minutes . |
| 3 | However , if Courier wins , it 'll be decided on how many sets each has dropped during the competition . |
| 4 | It is argued that the breadth and depth of the market in small company shares is suffering , particularly as the volume of trading in smaller company shares has dropped since the crash of October 1987 as investors have fled to blue chip shares , and the number of brokers cutting back on their small firms business has increased . |
| 5 | ‘ Every man must have somewhere to go , ’ Marmeladov tells Raskolnikov who has dropped into the pub after his ‘ rehearsal ’ of the murder . |
| 6 | If cement has dropped into the water during construction work , the pool must be emptied and re-filled before planting and stocking with fish . |
| 7 | Unlike many clubs , the RCP judo players are always on show , as anyone who has dropped into the new Cafe Aqua on a club night will see . |
| 8 | With increased availability , pricing has dropped to a street price of $999 apiece for the 36MHz and $1,399 apiece for the 40MHz in quantities of 1,000 — quite different from the $1,900 price it gave The Microprocessor Report for the 40MHz back in December ( UX No 419 ) . |
| 9 | Here the attacker 's foot has dropped to the outside of the opponent 's leading leg |
| 10 | A rough estimate of the amount of water that could have been entrained by this fireball is , where R is the radius of the fireball when its pressure has dropped to the ambient value ( several kilometres for a 10-Mton nuclear blast ) , and the density of atmospheric water vapour ( several times ) . |
| 11 | In Sweden the native ( albeit primitive ) Swedish Polled has dropped from a quarter of a million milking cows in the 1950s to perhaps 2,500 today , pushed out by imported Friesians and by the amalgamated Swedish Red-and-White , while the national dairy herd as a whole has dropped from 1.6 million cows in 1950 to about 576,000 in the 1980s , though the average milk yield per cow has doubled . |
| 12 | Its vote has dropped from a high of 62% in 1972 to 55% in 1990 . |
| 13 | Illicit coca cultivation has dropped in the Chapare but has taken off in Bolivia 's Beni valley and across the border in Brazil and Peru . |
| 14 | The balance of this reduced population has changed dramatically : the proportion of under-fives has dropped by a quarter , and the numbers of those at school leaving age by just under a quarter , giving an overall decline of 15 per cent in the population aged under fifteen . |
| 15 | She remembered only two things about New York with affection : the man at Pennsylvania Station , perched high in a little glass box , who announced the trains in the rhythm of a square dance , and the man who returned her purse which she 'd dropped on the platform — a black man . |
| 16 | The man who 'd caught Jude when she 'd dropped from the high-wire . |
| 17 | If Guy had n't been holding her , she was sure she would have dropped to the floor . |
| 18 | The gaunt edifice appeared to have dropped from the heavens , a lump of the bleak sky fallen to earth inside the prison grounds . |
| 19 | He had dropped into a thick Geordie twang and , after laughing , he looked up and down the platform now , saying , ‘ We must be the only ones expecting a passenger . ’ |
| 20 | He found himself smiling widely as he went to obey her and for a moment he felt he had dropped into a home which was familiar to him . |
| 21 | Jed had dropped into the store late one Saturday afternoon . |
| 22 | During a raid in March she heard that a bomb had dropped on a burning building , killing six firemen and injuring others . |
| 23 | After that he turned away from the bed , picked up his jacket which Irina had dropped on the floor , began to put it on , then realising he had no shirt on , dropped the jacket , found the shirt and put that on . |
| 24 | Once in the park , Joyce 's mother had stopped to talk to another young woman while Joyce herself sat watching some birds pecking at the remains of a sandwich that someone had dropped on the path . |
| 25 | So Waqar , with this old , old ball , under cloud cover , had taken 5 for 13 in 38 balls , and with Munton pad-batting Mushtaq , England 's last six batsmen had made two runs between them , and the last eight wickets had dropped for a mere 28 runs . |
| 26 | The temperature had dropped during the night , and the dead leaves underfoot were bearded with ice ; they broke and crackled as he limped around the car and opened the trunk to get his kit . |
| 27 | Oppression lay on me like a dead beast , not gaunt and stiff-legged like the animals which lay where they had dropped along the desert road , but soft and smothering like something from which the breath had only just gone . |
| 28 | The velvet curtains had dropped over the stage , and someone had thrown open the doors that separated this room from the next . |
| 29 | It was extended for three days after officials reported violence had dropped below the average 30 killings a day . |
| 30 | Die Gruenen had dropped below the 5 per cent needed to enter the Bundestag in the last polls . |