Example sentences of "that have [vb pp] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may well be the same story that has come down in two different strands of tradition . |
| 2 | On the way to Upper Halling we find that the names have come down to us unaltered , to our right we have Yew Tree Kill , which has disappeared into the chalk quarry , also the Vicarage Close , further on and still on our right is Foxes ' Hole , a name that has continued down to this day . |
| 3 | Betrayal , the theme that had first entered Harry 's head in Burford , recurred to his mind now as the link between all the widely spaced events that had borne down on Heather Mallender . |
| 4 | While fitting the rear offside wheel back on to Miss Clinton 's car , Jenny 's daddy had been called away suddenly to see to a tractor that had broken down on Farmer Pullen 's farm . |
| 5 | In his memoirs the former president writes , ‘ At the beginning of my second term , Congress , the bureaucracy and the media were still working in concert to maintain the ideas and ideology of the traditional Eastern liberal establishment that had come down to 1973 through the New Deal , the New Frontier , and the Great Society . ’ |
| 6 | She moved nearer , heedless of Raynor 's warning hand on her arm , not exactly pushing him from her , but summoning , without realising , the authority and the remoteness that had come down to her ; certainly assuming the unconscious imperiousness that she had never known shone from her , and that was shining from her now in the dim , moonlit cell . |
| 7 | The rocks referred to were boulders that had come down off the moor in the flood . |
| 8 | For Philip said that board , thick papers , " something , should be put under the tank to raise it , because of some tricky protruding pipes , and Jasper , seeing the stacks of newspaper that had come down from the attic , swiftly gathered them up and built them , while he knelt there beside it , into an eighteen-inch-high platform . |
| 9 | But now , fallen from her cabin , she was cut off from all understanding , and had no strength to kick against the darkness that had come down around her . |
| 10 | Among the conventions for the division of time that have come down to us from Imperial Rome is the seven-day week . |
| 11 | They form the largest single category of medieval manuscripts that have come down to us , and all later prayerbooks derive from them . |
| 12 | Past Gèdre , the landscape reverts again to its harsher , more primeval mode , as you drive through what is known as the Chaos de Coumély , a wilderness of massive boulders that have rolled down from the mountain on the left . |
| 13 | So below an area with a very high biological activity , where there 's a very large amount of calcium carbonate raining down , the C C D will be deeper because it will take that much longer for this material that 's rained down to actually dissolve . |
| 14 | The only one that 's gone down to yours is Bill last week for those four and a half hours doing that interceptor . |
| 15 | I wo n't be the only person from East Anglian that 's come down to London over the weekend to shop , to stay with relatives or friends and take advantage of London 's shopping . |
| 16 | But the the erm query that 's put down on that little paper there suggested that there was a problem , and a person who was coming in with you erm followed right the way round . |