Example sentences of "which have [vb pp] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Williams could also be on the mark with Capricorn Note in the other 450 metres open , though Dawn Milligan 's latest acquisition , Valentinos Joy , which has moved down from Scotland , trialled in 26.60 secs ( going 30 fast ) . |
| 2 | These days PCs are to be had for half that price , which has dragged down in turn the prices obtainable for software . |
| 3 | After a few hours ' driving , we stop by a small lake brimming with clear water which has tumbled down from the escarpment through dense forest . |
| 4 | If they do so they will find a small lady 's reticule which has slipped down behind one of the seat coverings . |
| 5 | The moral vocabulary of these accusations against sentimentality , leniency and crinolined philanthropy that unfolded in the wake of the great legislative transformations of this era is one which we would find entirely familiar in our own historical time , and which has rolled down to us virtually unchanged across more than a century of resistance to penal reform . |
| 6 | It was he who wrote the famous book which has come down to us by its Arab translation , and is known as the Almagest . |
| 7 | Thus from this moment , the beginning of the classical period , when bronze becomes the favourite material for freestanding statues , the number of originals which has come down to us is sadly small . |
| 8 | Biblioth. , P.L. 28.556 ) , and Origen still knew its Hebrew title , which has come down to us in a corrupt and unintelligible form , Sarbethsabanaiel ( ap . |
| 9 | One day Jesus said to his friends : I am the Bread of Life I am the living Bread which has come down from heaven Anyone who eats this bread Shall live for . |
| 10 | The members of this parliament immediately set about introducing legislation to reform abuses within the English Catholic church , and during the course of the next seven years they passed a series of statutes which would lead that church into schism and formalize its break with the Roman papacy , which has lasted down to the present day . |
| 11 | If the purpose of these ivory carvings remains a matter for discussion , it is evident that Upper Palaeolithic man began the custom of using ivory as a medium for animal and human sculpture which has lasted down to modern times . |
| 12 | In an immediate response to the latest left-wing guerrilla offensive , the government on Sept. 5 ruled out the renewal of peace talks which had broken down in March [ see p. 38809 ] and were suspended indefinitely in May . |
| 13 | A Marie Claire magazine horoscope supplement lay in a puddle of blood , which had trickled down into small pools in the sand . |
| 14 | ‘ She was one of our clients , ’ Luke cut in swiftly , and turned immediately to Heather , but not before Merrill had seen the shutter which had slammed down over his face at the mention of Elise . |
| 15 | Drawing directly on his own recent experiences as a Parliamentary reporter for the Chronicle , CD humorously describes scenes and personalities in the House of Commons ( in 1835 sitting in temporary accommodation on the site of the old Palace of Westminster which had burned down in 1834 ) , and in Bellamy 's , the MPs ' coffee and chop house adjoining the Palace , including Nicholas , the imperturbable maitre d'hôtel at Bellamy 's . |
| 16 | She brushed aside a wisp of hair which had slipped down over her face and smiled placatingly at the florid-faced docker leaning forward over the tea-stained counter . |
| 17 | The fighting , which had died down during the night , flared again as dawn came , and US Cobra gunships began to fly over Panama City . |
| 18 | This time there was no knife , they just got him on the floor and it was just a fist which had come down on the man 's face again and again . |
| 19 | She said she had a James III guinea in her possession , an heirloom which had come down to her from her grandfather . ’ |
| 20 | Nevertheless Fraser McLuskey 's account of air crashes does suggest that the Maquis or the local French population in general would soon have known of planes which had come down in their territory , and that the Germans , when told of wrecks , did in fact bury the crews in identifiable graves . |
| 21 | There are many topographical names which have lasted down to the present in a perfectly straightforward fashion ( the articles or toponymical qualifiers being dropped ) , such as Field , Bridge , Ford , Green , Lake , Lane , Orchard , Townsend , Gate and so on , but others are less obvious in their modern guises — Atwell and Attwood , Byfield and Byway are clear enough as examples in which the definite article has become assimilated , but others like Boveton = above town , and Binetheton — below town , are not so obvious at first sight , neither are Biart — dweller near the enclosure , Stanners = dweller at the stone house , or Leese = dweller by the pasture . |
| 22 | Recently , Susan Keefe has listed no fewer than sixty-one treatises on baptism which have come down to us in manuscripts from the Carolingian age . |
| 23 | By using such evidence the historian can come to terms with some of the everyday reality of the war , and how it touched the lives and outlook of men and women , famous and not so famous , rich and poor , whose experiences are described in the proceedings of civil and criminal cases which have come down to us in some number . |
| 24 | But a key part in the telling should be the small but significant number of actual past tempo measurements which have come down to us . |