Example sentences of "he have [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it is , he has gone down as a highly skilled bowler who , because he lacked the flamboyance of some of his colleagues , attracted less attention than many of them ; but who consistently , almost stealthily , got on with the job of collecting three or four wickets in innings after innings after innings . |
| 2 | ‘ He has gone down a treat with the members , who have a lot of affection for him , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Most important of all he has run down a number of performances previously unknown . |
| 4 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |
| 5 | So far he has tracked down the chemical 3-methyl-2-hexenoic acid . |
| 6 | Talking about his future , Keith says that he has turned down an approach from Rugby and it 's up to Gloucester now whether they keep him on . |
| 7 | The child is probably trying to write down a suitable looking word , and has n't said to himself the actual word he has written down . |
| 8 | Often , when the writer is attempting to represent a particular word , he assumes that the word he has written down genuinely approximates to what he wants . |
| 9 | This suggests that the child does n't ask himself how the letters he has written down might be pronounced . |
| 10 | He has to settle down and marry one day , just as I do , has n't he ? ’ |
| 11 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 12 | But when he comes to the foot of the mountain and sees the worship of the calf for himself , we hear the sound of his anger too , and see him smashing the tablets of stone that he has brought down from the summit inscribed with God 's torah . |
| 13 | Jim is a hard hitting sort of individual who knows where he is going in racing and he has brought Down Royal , I feel , out of the 17th century into the 20th — not quite the 21st — in a matter of a couple of years . |
| 14 | He has pulled down princes from their thrones and exalted the lowly The hungry he has filled with good things , the rich sent empty away . |
| 15 | Striker Don Goodman is rated as doubtful with a recurring groin injury , and if he has to stand down again Hawke is likely to come in for his first game of the season probably as a partner for ex-England and Boro man Peter Davenport . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As England 's leading batsman of the 1980s he has borne a heavy responsibility and perhaps because of this has never completely fulfilled his potential ; few batsmen can have been blessed with so much natural ability , yet he often looks vulnerable until he has settled down and even then has succumbed countless times to an infuriating nibble or waft outside the off stump . |
| 18 | He has settled down , has a family and is aware of his responsibilities . |
| 19 | If a horse stops pulling once he has settled down and works sensibly and correctly after say , 20 minutes of ‘ whoopee ’ then it is a matter of working through the exuberance stage with as many exercises in the form of transitions and ‘ things to do ’ as possible to occupy the horse 's mind and so try to make him concentrate on his work rather than other exciting stimuli . |
| 20 | They are fed on drugs and despatched by their master with golden daggers to kill whomever he has marked down for destruction . ’ |
| 21 | He has put down a Commons motion condemning the Defence Secretary for ‘ the arbitrary action which he is taking to extinguish the ancient rights of common [ … ] for political reasons to prevent the women 's peace camp from continuing their peaceful demonstrations ’ . |
| 22 | In Peter 's case he has put down a marker for next year , when he will still be young enough to try . |
| 23 | Happily for everyone he has put down anchor |
| 24 | He a attended courses , and on a couple of occasions he 'd travelled down with another officer to collect prisoners . |
| 25 | I half got up , then I looked at the hole he 'd gone down and at the paper in my hand . |
| 26 | He 'd gone down to Atlanta to watch the Democratic Party select its presidential candidate , and at night he went dancing . |
| 27 | His legs had buckled and knocked , a comic effect , and he 'd gone down too soon for his partner to see the ugly roundel that had begun to form on the white tennis shirt . |
| 28 | Perhaps he 'd gone down to Somerset to see his mother . |
| 29 | and he was let out and first , within twenty four hours he 'd gone down to the South Coast and killed his mother and his girl friend |
| 30 | He refused to be roused by her anger , suspecting she was furious he 'd turned down her invitation to stay . |