Example sentences of "[vb pp] down over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outstanding incompatibilities not resolved by the ABI — and there is little doubt that different look and feels will still prevail — are to be addressed by a streamlined porting environment that can be whittled down over time as more features are incorporated into the ABI . |
| 2 | He has one hand over Andy 's face , clamped tight ; his head is turned away from me , red hair fallen down over one ear . |
| 3 | A lock of dark hair had fallen down over his forehead and she was swept by a sudden yearning to put up her hand , feel the silken texture of it with her fingers . |
| 4 | A third round of preliminary talks in Rome between the TPLF and the Ethiopian government on March 20-29 had broken down over the TPLF 's insistence that " substantive talks " should involve a joint delegation of the TPLF and its ally , the Ethiopian People 's Democratic Movement ( EPDM ) . |
| 5 | Cabinet negotiations had broken down over the balance of power in the government , with the " small coalition " demanding greater control over the economy than the PSL was prepared to concede . |
| 6 | Clad in a heavy military-style trench coat , turned up at the collar , he had a waterproof hat rammed down over his forehead . |
| 7 | Mr Howard , or his possible successor as Employment Secretary , could be humiliatingly voted down over plans to impose a 48-hour working week and a workless Sunday . |
| 8 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |
| 9 | What is amazing , therefore , is that the agency that has the responsibility for this programme — Milton Keynes Development Corporation — has been largely wound down over the past few years and the remainder of it will cease to exist in 1992 . |
| 10 | The cassock had a thin hood , held in place over the attendant 's head and face by what looked like the brim from an old and worn red hat ; it was squeezed down over the attendant 's head , the top of the hood showing through where the hat 's crown should have been . |
| 11 | After the glue has been applied to both edges of each segment and they are assembled , the banding clamp is dropped down over the assembly and tightened until the joints close up tightly . |
| 12 | The clouds have dropped down over the mountain so that the evangelicals and charismatics on the first contour above the town have vanished into the mist . |
| 13 | This puts me in the position of having to either cancel the project — which would be a great discouragment to the volunteers , who might be reluctant to come forward again having been let down over this one — or risk going on without funding ( and then perhaps being told that funding can not be granted retrospectively ? ) . |
| 14 | More recently , it was impossible to forget how he personally had been let down over the reserves pledged for the first phase at Verdun . |
| 15 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |
| 16 | However , we know from Yeats 's letters even more than his poems that he thought the last possibility for aristocratic ease in the arts had disappeared when Robert Gregory was shot down over France in 1915 . |
| 17 | Or had it been shot down over the Channel ? |
| 18 | But long ago , in 1946 , the questing and the questioning had become almost unbearable , and I knew that to keep my sanity I must force myself to an arbitrary conclusion : I would believe the least terrible of terrible possibilities — that the plane had been shot down over the Channel by enemy action . |
| 19 | The war was over , I had a steady boyfriend who was n't likely to be shot down over the Ruhr , and I was working with a bunch of very congenial people . |
| 20 | He was to become a leading exponent of night intruding later in the war , bringing his personal score to 162 before being shot down over France by Flak , and dying of his injuries from the crash which followed , in July 1943 . |
| 21 | Both were shot down over Syria by Vichy French Dewoitine 520s of GC III/6 on 5 July 1941 . |
| 22 | These were the remaining items from the collection of Major David Summonsby , who as a bomb disposal specialist acquired an amazing collection of World War Two German aircraft relics , such as werke nummer plates , a Bf 109 control column , a fragment of a tail fin from a ‘ 109 , a rare camera-gun liberated from a Do 17 , and , interestingly , a pennant flown from a JU188 shot down over Combe Hill , Dorset , in 1944 . |
| 23 | An Iranian airliner was shot down over the Gulf by a missile from a US cruiser in 1988 , killing 290 people . |
| 24 | Carlisle Crown Court was told that the fighter ace — who was shot down over Italy — was spotted by police while driving to see a sick friend . |
| 25 | politically , too , despite tensions over Berlin and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 , the furore over the U2 incident when an American reconnaissance plane was shot down over the Soviet Union , and the shock of the Soviet lead in space exploration and technology , tensions between the two superpowers had not returned to the glacial levels of a decade earlier . |
| 26 | An American U2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over Russia and its pilot , Gary Powers , captured . |
| 27 | In May 1960 more talks began at leaders ' levels in Paris , with Eisenhower anxious to play the role of peacemaker in his last year in office , but the conference collapsed when a US spy aircraft was shot down over the USSR . |
| 28 | When my right hon. Friend visits the United Nations , will he raise the issue of the RAF aircrew who were shot down over the Gulf , some of whom came from west Norfolk ? |
| 29 | The men , all of whom had been captured after having been shot down over enemy territory , gave their names , sent greetings to their families and made statements critical of the war . |
| 30 | As a Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain , he was shot down over Ashford , Kent , on 4 September 1940 and died two days later , sixteen months before the birth of his wife Doris 's son , Michael . |