Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 6 | Colour Sergeant Skuse has already driven down to the Soviet Checkpoint , one kilometre away in East Germany , to warn the Russians that a British military convoy is expected to enter the city . |
| 7 | And Clough has also cracked down on a similar plea from right back Brian Laws . |
| 8 | While still chairman of both Gardiner and ASH , Tom Buffett has now stepped down as head of Scantronic . |
| 9 | While still chairman of both Gardiner and ASH , Tom Buffett has now stepped down as head of Scantronic . |
| 10 | Friends of Dr Owen say that his farewell advice to the nation — he has now stood down as an MP — is intended to avoid damaging the chances for his two remaining SDP colleagues , Rosie Barnes and John Cartwright , who are fighting to hold on to their south-east London seats . |
| 11 | After the frantic design years of the early 1980s board design has now settled down to a fairly stable format and it is only construction techniques that are still changing slightly . |
| 12 | In the World Cup quarter-final Skinner hit Cecillon with such force that the echo has barely died down around the Parc des Princes six months later . |
| 13 | An innocent who 'd somehow wandered down into the rat run , just asking to get bitten . |
| 14 | Cursin " he was " cos he 'd just settled down to his kipper . |
| 15 | There was a certain cynicism in the agency girl 's eyes , but Diane was n't somebody who 'd just climbed down off the backwoods bus . |
| 16 | Perhaps he 'd already settled down under his blanket when Berowne arrived . |
| 17 | He 'd never looked down on a human before . |
| 18 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 19 | She had made a complete fool of herself and had successfully lived down to every low opinion that Piers harboured about her . |
| 20 | " I 've only popped down for a cup of tea . " |
| 21 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 22 | He said the buy-out had been a possibility for some time , but the two sides had only got down to serious discussions in the past few months . |
| 23 | It was very quiet and the noises from the wood became distinguishable , as if the wood itself had suddenly moved down nearer the track . |
| 24 | We do not know precisely on what grounds , but it had already broken down by August 1093 , the date which had been fixed for the final settlement of differences between the kings of England and Scotland . |
| 25 | The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I 've just sat down on a hairbrush ! ’ |
| 29 | I 've just driven down from Manchester and I 'm slightly knackered . |
| 30 | I 've only just started so he said er I 've just come down to you know . |