Example sentences of "which have [vb pp] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year of 1944 saw the supreme Japanese effort to break the deadlock which had bogged down the Burma front . |
| 2 | The blast which had flung down the doors at the front had strangely left the windows intact , but when Pat arrived home it was decided that it would be better to leave Julia in the bed in the cellar . |
| 3 | Returning to the Maison Caressa at Nice , he persuaded the factory which had turned down the project fifteen years earlier to manufacture " a certain quantity " of 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato according to his own specification . |
| 4 | Was Miss Fergusson comparing the earthquake which had thrown down the village of Arghuri to the great Flood itself ? |
| 5 | There were still old parts of Bucharest surviving despite the bulldozers of Ceausescu which had torn down the old to build huge concrete cubes . |
| 6 | The windscreen was splattered with spittle which had dribbled down the glass and dried . |
| 7 | The reform was designed to reduce the linguistic tensions in Belgium , which had brought down the previous Martens coalition in 1987 [ see pp. 34892 ; 35489 ] . |
| 8 | With a team of eminent academics , from Germany , France , Spain , Italy and Britain , an overall editor in the shape of Jean-Baptiste Durosell , former professor of contemporary history at the Sorbonne , and the backing of a powerful group of international publishers , he attempted the task of assembling , in one substantial but accessible volume , a distillation of all the elements , chronological , geographical , ethnographic , cultural , philosophical , spiritual , which have blended down the centuries to create the state of ‘ Europeanness ’ . |
| 9 | The British banks which have written down the value of their loans most aggressively may be attracted by the fund , says Jim Mellon , a director of Tyndall . |