Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] [adv prt] in " in BNC.

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1 CalMac 's managing director , Colin Paterson , points out that his is possibly the only nationalised industry whose grant has gone down in real terms .
2 A POLO sponsorship deal won by Major Ron Ferguson has gone up in smoke — only weeks after Fergie 's topless snaps were revealed .
3 Although the princess has returned to Britain the prince has stayed on in Hong Kong .
4 The fashion for spas has died out in Britain , but in Germany and Italy there are still spas where people gather to drink the waters and undergo hydrotherapies .
5 As C. S. Coon has pointed out in regard to the world 's hunting peoples in general compared with urbanized people :
6 The squadron has turned out in force .
7 The case studies of school self-evaluation which the Open University has carried out in Oxfordshire and elsewhere suggest that teachers are for the most part ignorant of this literature and of the various research strategies , mainly derived from social science , by which valid and reliable evidence about their professional activities might be gathered and judged .
8 A man who went missing on Tuesday has turned up in Cornwall .
9 Kikuko Toyama , the gallery 's director , said Mr Ikeda has opened up in New York to acquaint American collectors with the work of contemporary Japanese artists .
10 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 .
11 The ceremony has died out in many areas over the past hundred years , so it was a good idea to revive it.There 's cider and singing and it 's good fun .
12 Tension has built up in Libya because of a refusal by their Government to surrender two nationals suspected of the Lockerbie bombing .
13 However , such systems tend to settle down after a time ; as long as the feedback process is not in full swing , we can often assume that the net effect has balanced out in one direction or the other .
14 THE postponed replay of a battle over a five-a-side football complex has kicked off in earnest .
15 Violent rioting has broken out in the camps many times in recent weeks .
16 UK Cambridge-based CADcentre has opened up in Frankfurt , Germany : Richard Longdon takes the reigns there .
17 It is small wonder that the practice has grown up in recent years of referring , however inaccurately , to a mistress as a ‘ common law wife ’ .
18 Johnny has screwed up in the States and is trying to make a fresh start in London .
19 An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time .
20 In 1935 , after the Murrells débâcle and the dawning realization that very little which could be described as administration had gone on in Masai District , the Tanganyika government did in fact begin to give some serious thought to the type of man which should be sent there .
21 Heavy fighting had broken out in late March when guerrillas of the Karen National Union ( KNU ) , supported by student dissidents , attempted to wrest control of the town from government forces .
22 In May 1937 street fighting had broken out in Barcelona and was used as an excuse for outlawing the " Trotskyist " POUM , not in fact Trotskyist but a breakaway from the Spanish Communist Party in close touch with the British ILP.6 By 1938 the Communist Party had so entrenched itself through the use of Soviet aid and advisers that it was able to force the resignation of Prime Minister Prieto and to improve its position in the Cabinet .
23 Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force .
24 The words had tumbled out in anger .
25 The words had come out in a babble and by the time he had gathered his wits and been able to respond she had put the phone down .
26 A light had gone on in one of the downstairs rooms in Puddephat 's wing .
27 Old Saul was the culprit , Old Saul had gone down in our history and my personal mythology as the Castraitor , but thanks to the little creatures who flew the creek I had him in my power now .
28 She had nagged at her mother for insisting on cooking everything herself , although she always did it , however formal the occasion or long the guest list , she had gone on and on until Mrs Roberts had snapped back in her turn , furiously .
29 Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel .
30 Turnip salad with capers is no shock today and raw choucroûte salad , an idea Pomiane had picked up in Moscow — buy very fresh choucroûte from the charcutier and stop at the village pump to wash it thoroughly , he told those of his French readers who went in for picnics on canoeing and automobile excursions — should be the joy of vegetarians .
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