Example sentences of "have [verb] down the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your Mum ca n't afford toilet paper , she has to slide down the banisters . |
| 2 | For a wood glue-to be effective it has to penetrate down the tubes for some distance so as to get hold of the undamaged wood . |
| 3 | Mr Gatward said TVS has narrowed down the candidates for the MTM job to two . |
| 4 | Mr Gatward said TVS has narrowed down the candidates for the MTM job to two . |
| 5 | He has dumped down the notes for a greyhound , has given his heart to the beast , and is derided for this by his friends in the pub . |
| 6 | Has slipped down the weights and could surprise at long odds here . |
| 7 | Los Angeles , California-based Tiger Media , the multimedia authoring start-up , has gone down the tubes : its venture capitalists sold off the assets last month to New Hampshire-based AimTech Inc , a PC company . |
| 8 | Making way for the SunDragons , Sun has knocked down the prices of its existing 600MP multi-processing servers by seven to 17% , it says . |
| 9 | The real reason is that competition between the various issuers has forced down the charges levied on the retailers — once as high as 3 to 5 per cent , down to an average of 2.2 per cent in 1988 and now 1.7 per cent and falling . |
| 10 | Such a conception of women has continued down the centuries . |
| 11 | Climbing grades can often conceal the true character of a route , as Dave Cook has discovered down the years |
| 12 | STUNG by the jeers and booing which greeted last year 's avant garde production of The Gondoliers , the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company says it has toned down the designs for its new version of The Mikado — despite the presence of a Lord High Executioner in flourescent pink leggings and yellow platform shoes , writes James Delingpole , Arts Correspondent . |
| 13 | She 'd turned down the offers of promotion because of Emily . |
| 14 | Yesterday , Marchant boss Philip Marchant said : ‘ We have had to batten down the hatches . |
| 15 | No longer did they have to go down the backstairs during the night , and into the yard and across it to where the three outdoor lavatories stood . |
| 16 | No , oh I know what I never got that ai n't finished I 'll have to go down the shops , I might go down |
| 17 | Stirling may have laid down the principles , but it was Lewes who had trained the men to put them into practice . |
| 18 | This is bloody hard work — if I 'd wanted a holiday like this I could have gone down the mines for a fortnight . ’ |
| 19 | But much of the money spent in Berlin , Sydney , Istanbul , Bejing , and Milan , Manchester 's rivals , will have gone down the tubes . |
| 20 | At several sites , protesting miners were reported to have gone down the pits and stayed there following the announcement . |
| 21 | By the late 1980s , Ceauşescu 's suspicions and caprices had whittled down the numbers of his long-term favourites . |
| 22 | Liz 's gurgle of laughter had floated down the wires . |
| 23 | He had to go down the mines and he stuck it out . |
| 24 | Armoured men with swords had clanked down the stairwells here ; now the steps were used by gunmen in grubby camouflage fatigues whose rifles lay propped against the walls of the round towers . |
| 25 | Lawrence thought his side had let down the fans . |
| 26 | Lawrence thought his side had let down the fans . |
| 27 | That 's why they had torn down the children 's hospital to make room for the miniature golf course . |
| 28 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 29 | ‘ He thought the only explanation was that staff at the club had watered down the drinks . |
| 30 | I 've written down the messages . ’ |