Example sentences of "who had [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 2 | If all the chambers were as long as this , or if they were only used by people who had gone down deep into them , then his search would take months . |
| 3 | She was no longer the mild , gentle creature who had gone down on her knees to implore him to make her his wife , but a sturdy , tight-lipped puritan of a woman who saw duty before all else and who always took care to drum the same principle into her children . |
| 4 | However , Gen. José Dante Caridi , who had stood down as Army Chief of Staff after the rebellion , immediately denied the existence of any such deal ( as did his successor , Gen. Francisco Gassino , who warned that he would respond firmly to any further mutinies ) and accused Seineldin of excessive nationalism and fundamentalism and of being involved in a group of Army conspirators which had been in existence for 25 years . |
| 5 | The contest was won by Kent Conrad , a Democrat who had stood down as Senator for North Dakota in 1992 in line with a promise not to serve more than one term unless the federal deficit was significantly reduced . |
| 6 | She tried to smile a real smile at her father , who had run down the town to be here for the big moment . |
| 7 | The derelict gardens were rescued by Davyd , who had moved down from the mountains of Wales to the plains of East Anglia , but remained very Welsh , his accent giving authority to everything he said . |
| 8 | Writer Brad Darrach , who had flown down for an interview with Hopper , described the scene that developed : ‘ By mid-afternoon , the games became serious . |
| 9 | Smith 's early demise opened the door for the much-anticipated return of David Gower , who had flown down for the Wimbledon men 's final in something other than a Tiger Moth the day before . |
| 10 | Nick was walking in the garden with his father-in-law , a tall , lean , bald-headed Scot who had flown down to London for a couple of days and come out to see his daughter between one business appointment and another . |
| 11 | In a controversial decision on Feb. 23 , Elisabeth Kopp , who had stepped down as Justice Minister in January 1989 [ see p. 36473 ] , was acquitted by the criminal law division of Federal Supreme Court ( Bundesstrafgericht ) on charges of violating professional secrecy . |
| 12 | But the guy who joined Cyril at that time , Cliff Barton , was a buddy of mine who lived opposite me , and who had turned down the gig with Mayall . |
| 13 | Crawford returned to repertory work to be there for the first three months , appearing alongside stars such as Leo McKern , who had turned down two films and offers from the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company to go to Nottingham , and classical actor John Neville , who had just starred in Alfie on the London stage and was giving up 200-a-week West End rates for the 20 to 50 Playhouse level . |
| 14 | But referee Mike Reed , who had turned down two Manchester penalty appeals in the first half , refused to sanction a retake . |
| 15 | Mitchell , who had turned down a place in Scotland 's team for the world cross-country trial to concentrate on his marathon commitments , clocked 2hr 21min 56 sec . |
| 16 | Rangers got no joy , either , from a referee who had turned down a first-half penalty claim for hand ball and was similarly unmoved when Huistra fell after making contact with Dykstra . |
| 17 | He seldom apologised in a tough league , but felt moved to once after a particularly loud , prolonged and slanderous outburst against a small , bespectacled umpire who had turned down an appeal : ‘ Sorry , umpire . |
| 18 | The man who had hunted down countless villains on the screen crumbled when it came to punishing a little white dimpled ball measuring 1.68 inches in diameter . |
| 19 | In 1855 Alexander had appointed his friend General V. I. Nazimov ( the reactionary who had clamped down on Moscow University in the last years of Nicholas I ) to the Governor-Generalship of the three provinces at issue . |
| 20 | But nor was Aldaniti , who had broken down again at Sandown Park in November 1979 and was to spend most of 1980 recuperating at his owner 's Sussex home . |
| 21 | A mechanic contracted to the RAC arrived within an hour , she claimed , but went to help a man who had broken down after her . |
| 22 | Peter would like it ; poor Peter , who had broken down in bed the night before , and wept that he had failed her , failed her as well as — but he could n't actually articulate that . |
| 23 | The judge said during the raid Munn stood in front of the counter and the man who had broken down the screen handed him out the £6,460 from the teller 's cash drawers . |
| 24 | ‘ You do n't mind , do you ? ’ he said , glancing at Willie who had sat down beside him . |
| 25 | I told her that at last I knew what really had happened to my father , her beloved husband , the man who had laid down his life for his country . |
| 26 | He gasped out his news even as Corbett , who had hurried down from his chamber , helped him out of the saddle . |
| 27 | A DISTRESSED father appealed for help yesterday in finding the ‘ animals ’ who had gunned down his daughter and her husband . |
| 28 | Soeriaatmadja showed me pictures of the devastation caused recently by one elephant in West Sumatra who had knocked down 170 homes . |
| 29 | One of the men who had to walk down this precarious companionway was Malcolm MacDonald , the British dominions secretary in 1938 , still vainly attempting to reconcile the desperate promises of the First World War before the outbreak of the Second , trying to preserve order in the British mandate of Palestine by restricting Jewish immigration . |
| 30 | Surrounding us on the beach were a large number of French civilians who had come down to the beach to look at the British Tommies . |