Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [vb pp] down from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | May I remind him that inflation has come down from 10.9 to 3.7 per cent. , that interest rates have been cut by 4.5 percentage points and that we have the lowest level of inflation for 25 years — below that of west Germany . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | Alcohol has edged down from 80 to 78 per mille , but leisure services have risen from 32 per mille to 62 , entirely as a result of the inclusion for the first time of foreign holidays , which are now deemed to account for 30 per mille ( 3 per cent ) of the cost of living . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , does the Minister agree that the number of defence jobs in the north-west has gone down from 23,000 in 1985-86 to only 12,000 in 1989-90 , a cut of almost 50 per cent . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And super model 's pay has gone down from ten thousand pounds to er five hundred pounds a day . |
| 10 | Twice a week a Second Secretary accompanied by a High Commission security officer had driven down from Nairobi with a gutted digest of the Service 's affairs telexed from London . |
| 11 | Her family have travelled down from the city to the Devon hospital where the attack happened . |
| 12 | Meanwhile Georgina 's family have travelled down from their home in Gloucester to be at their daughter 's bedside . |