Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , instead of the war being over in a short time — as was thought by many — it became literally bogged down in trench warfare never previously experienced . |
| 2 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 3 | Habsburg dynasty Dr Otto von Habsburg , son of the last King-Emperor of Hungary , has politely turned down an offer to stand in next month 's Hungarian presidential election as the candidate of the Smallholders party . |
| 4 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 5 | The share price has only gone down because the market is generally down . |
| 6 | Earlier lava flows , before the coming of man , date back a million years , but since that time the Colorado River has only cut down about 50 feet . |
| 7 | The re-establishment of the Irish language as the first official language of the state became the national policy of the Irish government under de Valera and has only toned down in recent years . |
| 8 | Because as soon as the national agreement come into being our our of the meetings dropped down dropped down dropped down until there were very few attending . |
| 9 | Because as soon as the national agreement come into being our our of the meetings dropped down dropped down dropped down until there were very few attending . |
| 10 | Whether Rainbow remembers or not , history will never know , because she is too busy choking on a gulp of tea that has suddenly slipped down the wrong way . |
| 11 | Well there seems to be a slight mismatch there , and perhaps some of this mismatch is also a part of , with the confusion I have of the various shifting policy of York , in term in terms of their requirement , there has been in the in the not too recent recent past York were saying they had an additional requirement beyond need which they termed their concealed requirement , although it might not be a concealed dwellings , as we might otherwise describe them , of one thousand six hundred , and that has progressively come down to seven hundred as presented at this enquiry . |
| 12 | Yet in spite of this physical transformation , the statistics of unemployment and homelessness , which of course are not cited by the LDDC , show that LDDC-led ‘ regeneration ’ has not trickled down very far into the working class communities of East London . |
| 13 | In Northern Regional Health Authority v Derek Crouch Construction Co Ltd [ 1984 ] 1 QB 644 , the Court of Appeal held that the courts do not have jurisdiction over certain types of building disputes because of the wording of the arbitration clause in the construction industry 's standard form contracts , and that the court should not alter agreed machinery for resolving disputes where that machinery has not broken down . |
| 14 | Stressing the need ‘ to behave in a manner which is neither racist nor sexist , ’ ‘ to uphold individual rights , ’ and ‘ to cooperate and consult with the community and other agencies in pursuing our purpose ’ has not gone down well with conservative officers . |
| 15 | This has not gone down too well with the Torinese , who want a more prestigious side to inaugurate their new stadium . |
| 16 | Avnet Inc 's proposed acquisition of Hall-Mark Electronics Corp has not gone down to well with Standard & Poor 's Corp , which said it may cut the distributors $100m of A-plus-rated subordinated debt . |
| 17 | One could , of course , still say that the total entropy , including the entropy inside the black hole , has not gone down — but since there is no way to look inside the black hole , we can not see how much entropy the matter inside it has . |
| 18 | As a student of these matters , surely the hon. Gentleman recognises that in , for example , the past five years , the peak age for offending for a young male has not gone down but gone up . |
| 19 | According to the Cambridge-based World Conservation Monitoring Centre , almost all of this oil has already been washed ashore or is in the shallows along 200km of Saudi coast ; it has not moved down to the southern Gulf , where most of the turtles and dugongs live . |
| 20 | One consequence of time spent on foreign policy is that there are still subjects on which the president himself has not laid down detailed marching orders to his staff . |
| 21 | I take that view because the point has never been decided by this court or in the House of Lords and , as I have explained above , this court , in considering whether private corporations can sue for libel at common law , has not laid down any principle which is conclusive of the point raised in this case . |
| 22 | My set-up seems to suit these fish — my last Plec lived apparently quite happily for 15 years , and the latest arrival has soon settled down and is growing very quickly . |
| 23 | At the other end of the scale GM 's long-expressed desire to achieve significant sales of its US cars in Europe has finally settled down to more realistic levels . |
| 24 | IBM Corp 's Technology Products unit — IBMspeak for the chip business — has finally nailed down some US distributors for the chips , subsystems and packaging products it wants to offer on the merchant market : the national distributors are Bell Industries Inc , Los Angeles , Bell Microproducts Inc , San Jose and Marshall Industries Inc , El Monte , California ; regional manufacturer 's representatives appointed include Bonser-Philhower Sales of Richardson , Texas , for Texas , Oklahoma , Louisiana and Arkansas ; S J Associates of Rockville Centre , New York for the Mid-Atlantic , Metro and Upstate New York regions , Connecticut and Eastern Pennsylvania ; Nexus of Mountain View , for Northern California ; Centaur Corp of Irvine for Southern California ; and Mill-Bern Associates of Woburn , Massachusetts for the states of Vermont , New Hampshire and Maine . |
| 25 | After months of pursuing its quarry , it looks like IXI Ltd has finally nailed down the OEM agreement with DEC for its X.desktop manager that has been long in the making . |
| 26 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
| 27 | The feelings of contentment run deep ; Monica Dickens has finally put down her roots . |
| 28 | YOUR computer has just broken down . |
| 29 | And erm I 've found out in , in our area in South Bank , the local hardware shop has just shut down . |
| 30 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |