Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 So often the right tool for the job is hanging in the tool shed at home when you are helping a friend in his house , or have broken down in the car away from home .
2 The rocks referred to were boulders that had come down off the moor in the flood .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 And do n't get so drunk that you ca n't stand up and have to sit down in the middle or , worse still , can not speak at all .
6 Gabriel was not permitted to show himself , and had to duck down inside the cart , underneath the costumes .
7 The Jew had left Judaea , where the capital has a name difficult to pronounce ( they call it Ierusalem ) and had come down to the sea .
8 This was used by Bourgeois and Certon for Ps. 36 and Goudimel for Ps. 68 , ‘ Que Dieu se montre seulement ’ , but has come down through the centuries as a hymn to Sebaldus Heyden 's words ‘ O Mensch bewein dein Sunde gross ’ .
9 Jilly Jonathan was pale but had calmed down after the bout of hysterical weeping that had overcome her once they had got her to the hotel .
10 János Hunyadi was regent of Hungary during the minority of King Ladislas V , but had to step down at the very moment of the fall of Constantinople when Ladislas came of age .
11 Clearly the pilot had not wasted time calculating an entry angle , but had bored down through the upper atmosphere as directly as he was able .
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