Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the rate of management buyouts has slowed down with the recession those that were launched in Scotland had a good record of being completed . |
| 2 | The name of Lads has survived down through the years from the 15th century . |
| 3 | Armed and unarmed Iranians streamed in-along with gusts of tear gas that the US marines had laid down around the door . |
| 4 | I like the way the lambs have settled down in the field have n't they ? |
| 5 | And the effects have rippled down through the years into just about every local music scene in America , from the blues players to the hillbillies up in the mountains . ’ |
| 6 | To lose height pilots have to spiral down to the runway . |
| 7 | The clothing and electronics factories have closed down in the Northeast , and the shifts specially designed for mothers , the part-time and twilight , were the first to go . |
| 8 | On numerous occasions massive Orc armies have swept down from the north , destroying the towns and cities of Kislev and invading the northern provinces of the Empire . |
| 9 | Two divers had gone down into the river during the morning , but had found no item of relevance ; and perhaps would not have recognised its relevance had they found it . |
| 10 | One or two of the demonstrating ladies had sat down on the pavement ( they should never have shown Gandhi on TV ) and were singing ‘ the one with the waggerly tail … ’ with gusto . |
| 11 | Can i do you want figures on commodities I think quite a lot of us are aware that coffee prices have gone down in the last ten years . |
| 12 | The bands started playing around 11 in the evening and , basically , people did n't go there for the music but to get a sleep if they lived too far out from central London to get home after the tubes had closed down for the night . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | staff salaries have gone down over the last eighteen months |
| 15 | But we had to choose , early on , which side we belonged to , and children have to come down on the side that brings the food home and gets it on the table . |
| 16 | If you notice several exit holes in the galls but have found no adults , it is possible that the larvae have crawled down into the compost or soil before becoming pupae . |
| 17 | The whole line of docks seemed to be ablaze and ships in the river , shops , offices , streets of terraced houses and mansions , as well as beautiful and historic buildings like the Walker Art Gallery , the Museum and Central Library , had all suffered as high explosive bombs , land mines and incendiary bombs had rained down upon the city from hundreds of aircraft . |
| 18 | Some of the journalists had already left ; others had settled down to the serious business of getting drunk . |
| 19 | Nicholson , who is being paid a handsome £5 million , is reported to have immersed himself so completely in the part that he wanders around the set mumbling the notorious Hoffa 's favourite phrases — even after the cameras have shut down for the night . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Her spirits had come down from the heights to the abyss . |