Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [adv] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Clough has also cracked down on a similar plea from right back Brian Laws . |
| 2 | Slorne had already calmed down by the time Creggan and Minch had finished speaking and the following evening the Sweeper came and she was calm again . |
| 3 | Also tonight , Celtic 's UEFA Cup opponents Sporting Lisbon have just touched down in Glasgow to begin preparations for their UEFA Cup tie at Parkhead . |
| 4 | Wishart had been away but he had heard the stories later , how Alexander had suddenly looked down the hall , dropping his cup and going pale with fright . |
| 5 | But since the cases of Gordon and Paterson have now laid down that in obligatory section 7(4) cases there must be a reference to the possible alternative of giving urine and since this procedural requirement , shorn of the doctrine of driver 's preference , appears to present no difficulty to the police , it would now , I think , be inappropriate to reverse those decisions to the extent of abrogating this procedural requirement . |
| 6 | The feelings of contentment run deep ; Monica Dickens has finally put down her roots . |
| 7 | Some peers , led by Baroness Thatcher , are keen for a referendum , which the Commons has already turned down . |
| 8 | and his younger brother had always hated me because Tom had always ranted down his throat , Why ca n't you sell and organize things like Richard does ? |
| 9 | Piers Paul Read has exhaustively tracked down the actions and thoughts of all those close to the accident . |
| 10 | The idea was that the police would wait until they had incontrovertible evidence before moving in for the arrest , but Branson and Draper had barely sat down with the Clarkes before some forty policemen swarmed through the door , knocking over tables and chairs and arresting the two brothers . |
| 11 | Despite its boulevards in the north , the city was never as monotonous as the centre of Paris after Baron Haussmann had really got down to work on it in the 1860s . |
| 12 | By mid-morning Leon Kennedy had not arrived down so Rosen left a letter for him on the hall table and returned to London . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After a couple of hours , Zeno had simply lain down on the floor and gone to sleep . |
| 15 | The Warbutt had not come down from his tower to wish his son farewell , and Bicker was grim and silent with his cloak held up around his mouth and ice crystals forming on it where his breath froze . |
| 16 | Ron had just put down the telephone . |
| 17 | Even so , prices are not expected to rise and companies such as John Laing , Barratt and Wimpey have already written down their housing land bank values by up to 20 per cent . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Although Mr Cossiga has now backed down , it was his most serious mishap to date . |
| 20 | The Bank of Japan has already nudged down overnight rates ; if the spring pay round shows wage rises to be moderating , it could then cut the discount rate . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Anne had already trimmed down to a reasonable weight with the help of Weight Watchers , and she pleaded for new ideas to strengthen her resolve . |
| 23 | Coffin turned his back to the pier , Peter and Nona had already disappeared down a flight of steps , and walked towards the road , where a line of police vehicles was drawn up . |
| 24 | Aug. 2 , the anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , was marked by a broadcast by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in which he described the Iraqis as the true victors in the subsequent war , on the grounds that Iraq had not backed down in the face of the enormous odds against it . |
| 25 | Yeutter was selected to head the Republican Party after William Bennett had unexpectedly turned down the job [ see p. 37911 ] . |
| 26 | We then noticed Allingham had not come down although he was generally an early riser . |
| 27 | Rushdie has anyway turned down the offer , since , as he says ‘ it 's my job to produce the stuff , not to review it ’ . |
| 28 | While still chairman of both Gardiner and ASH , Tom Buffett has now stepped down as head of Scantronic . |
| 29 | While still chairman of both Gardiner and ASH , Tom Buffett has now stepped down as head of Scantronic . |
| 30 | Despite indiscretions induced by excess alcohol , relations between Stewart and Glenure had not broken down irretrievably . |