Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each time she does so , the male has to dig down to the buried vegetation and cover it over again . |
| 2 | Obviously a lot of this racism has seeped down from the top ; for example the police are part of a racist legal system so you 've got to expect them to hold those views . |
| 3 | Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night . |
| 4 | Sadly the opposition have gone down with the flu . |
| 5 | Mansfield 's attitude has echoed down through the centuries to the present day . |
| 6 | But the old pub had burnt down in the 1960s and been replaced by a more profitable and thrusting enterprise . |
| 7 | 52 and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King , 47 T.L.R. 110 ) , the law had settled down in the form which I have indicated . |
| 8 | Now what was required then was that although the job was in a rush , the management had to telephone down to the Admiralty in Bath to get the appropriate sanction you know , to , to accept the cylinder with the er bigger gauge bore . |
| 9 | Production day supervisor Bob Hodson illustrated the point : ‘ ICI phoned earlier to say the tanker with the morning delivery of phenol had broken down on the motorway and would n't be here until four o'clock . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This same process has continued down to the present , now with the next generation of Hirmers , Albert and Irmgard , supplying many new plates , especially of the recently restored churches at Wies and Dießen . |
| 12 | Will the criminal have to climb down from the roof ( in which case he ca n't take a lot with him ) , or can he go downstairs and let himself out of the house ? |
| 13 | The fat man over to his right had leaned down to the floor . |
| 14 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 15 | In Brazil there are all sorts of commodities whose price has gone down over the last ten years . |
| 16 | Then , once I am at home , I usually think the whole of it was splendid , and hate having to settle down to the monotonous , lonely life of a writer . |
| 17 | During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet . |
| 18 | A lot of flood water had come down from the upper reaches of the Cherwell , and a body placed in the river , say , at Lonsdale Road … |
| 19 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 20 | Inflation had slowed down in the United Kingdom to 5 per cent per year which produced a greater sense of economic security in terms of planning expenditures ahead . |
| 21 | My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps , where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen , leaving him miles to walk back to any road . |
| 22 | Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held . |
| 23 | All the floorboards had been removed , and the ceilings and plasterwork had crashed down into the basement with the weight of water pouring through the roof . |
| 24 | The barbarian had vaulted down into the heather and had drawn the black sword , Kring . |
| 25 | Either a spark had come down from the old fellow 's hole up there or him with hobnail boots had trod on er black powder and set it off and his hole went out underneath his feet . |
| 26 | Her hand had come down on the spider and it had bitten her . |
| 27 | Eye-witness Maureen Darwin , who was waiting to board one of the US-bound jumbos , said : ‘ It was as if a giant unseen hand had come down from the heavens and just lifted the planes up and across the tarmac . |
| 28 | Now it 's pretty obvious one side the fo A forklift has tried to put a pallet in between two and nudged the pallet next to it and it 's the pallet 's dropped down into the racking . |
| 29 | I like this , its been proved that waiting list have gone down in the last six months |
| 30 | I thought the TV aerial had blown down in the strong winds . |