Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The French prime minister has just thrown down a gauntlet to America on agricultural trade : he wants to rewrite the deal recently struck by America and the EC on farm exports ( see page 92 ) . |
| 5 | Lobbying by pharmaceutical companies has already watered down a proposed directive which at first suggested forcing them to include detailed information on dosage and usage on advertisements . |
| 6 | The New Zealanders continue to strive for new Everests in rugby achievement and their coach , Alex Wyllie , has already thrown down the gauntlet by stating : ‘ If we lose a single game we will consider the tour a failure . ’ |
| 7 | He has already laid down a marker by setting the fastest time in history during pre-season testing at the oval track in Phoenix , Arizona , where the next round of the Indycar series will be held on 4 April . |
| 8 | Rushdie has anyway turned down the offer , since , as he says ‘ it 's my job to produce the stuff , not to review it ’ . |
| 9 | The motel-supermarket-hamburger civilization has now been superimposed on what was left of nineteenth-century towns , and has further worn down the differences between one region and the next , but it is doubtful whether the mass mind or the mass man has yet come to pass , except to the extent that people always conform to a prevailing style while it lasts . |
| 10 | Double-digit inflation has also pushed down the average soldier 's standard of living . |
| 11 | Again , he has accurately written down the sound of the word . |
| 12 | he has n't broken down the mileage into how it 's assigned . |
| 13 | Piers Paul Read has exhaustively tracked down the actions and thoughts of all those close to the accident . |
| 14 | She added that to herself while , aloud , she elaborated , ‘ I was fishing for a coin that I 'd accidentally dropped down the back of the chair … and there was my passport and the rest of my stuff . ’ |
| 15 | For a time it was popular to suggest that reversals in the earth 's magnetic field , which we know to have been sudden , may have temporarily broken down the protective shield provided by the van Allen Belt against cosmic rays and so stimulated evolution by way of genetic mutation . |
| 16 | So maybe , it would have been better if you could have even got down a bit lower and to , to , to get more of it from the horizon . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 19 | She had already started down the scree of debris in pursuit . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Well I was I 've looked , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire , I 've just glanced down the table at certainly at the er my Greater York district colleagues , and er certainly we er are rather surprised that er you have the impression that you have the impression that er erm we could do without the erm the new settlement , quite clearly erm erm certainly Harrogate , Selby , er and Ryedale , and the County Council , believe the the new settlement is absolutely essential , erm and I think that 's erm erm certainly a matter of agreement between er us and those three districts , it 's absolutely essential . |
| 22 | So we were back before the firebox , exhausted and happy , and Laura had just shut down the kiln , when Edward came round into the yard again . |
| 23 | Ron had just put down the telephone . |
| 24 | And a man to whom she had just thrown down a deliberate challenge . |
| 25 | Mrs Stych had just set down the last of her bags of groceries on the kitchen counter and begun to unpack them , when there was the sound of a heavy truck drawing up outside her house . |
| 26 | Although judging by the telex you 've already tracked down the plutonium . ’ |
| 27 | The Jordanian Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources , Thabit al-Thair , announced on Oct. 24 that Jordan had offered to repay the interest on the US$40,000,000 , but that the Saudis had still turned down a request to re-open supplies . |
| 28 | For Courtney this was a return to Africa , for he had been a big-game hunter and had once canoed down the Nile from Lake Victoria . |
| 29 | He claimed at a press conference that the plant 's management and government officials had deliberately played down the scale of the fire . |
| 30 | I 've also written down the serial numbers of the two wagons if that will be any help to you . ’ |