Example sentences of "who have [vb pp] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norwich were trailing Grant , who has turned down a new contract , last season and have maintained their interest . |
| 2 | The multiple rapist , who has turned down the chance to serve his sentence in the safety of a solitary cell , was attacked at Highdown Prison , near Sutton , Surrey , according to a report on Thames Television . |
| 3 | Robinson , who has turned down the offer of a two-year contract by Yorkshire , had been classified by the TCCB as a List I cricketer . |
| 4 | Anyone who has driven down the Dover Road to catch a ferry might agree . |
| 5 | This means people with As at A-level , first class or good 2.1 honours degree , first time passes in chartered accountancy , or graduates who 've held down a managerial post in industry and done an MBA . |
| 6 | She tried to smile a real smile at her father , who had run down the town to be here for the big moment . |
| 7 | Mitchell , who had turned down a place in Scotland 's team for the world cross-country trial to concentrate on his marathon commitments , clocked 2hr 21min 56 sec . |
| 8 | Rangers got no joy , either , from a referee who had turned down a first-half penalty claim for hand ball and was similarly unmoved when Huistra fell after making contact with Dykstra . |
| 9 | But the guy who joined Cyril at that time , Cliff Barton , was a buddy of mine who lived opposite me , and who had turned down the gig with Mayall . |
| 10 | He seldom apologised in a tough league , but felt moved to once after a particularly loud , prolonged and slanderous outburst against a small , bespectacled umpire who had turned down an appeal : ‘ Sorry , umpire . |
| 11 | The judge said during the raid Munn stood in front of the counter and the man who had broken down the screen handed him out the £6,460 from the teller 's cash drawers . |
| 12 | Sarah herself knew many women who had moonlighted down the Bayswater Road to supplement meagre war pensions or National Assistance . |
| 13 | But to me as I struggled with his detoxifying diet , he was a disembodied , stern sounding voice , a god who had handed down the law . |
| 14 | There is also the adjective so-called , which in a comparably explicit way calls into question the relation between an entity and the description or properties which might be supposed to belong to it : ( 42 ) it is the so-called liberals who have closed down the press The author of this sentence is not casting doubt on the existence of the people he is writing about , nor on the existence of such properties as may be characterized by the word liberals ( nor for that matter the existence of people who might be so described ) but only on the validity of the relationship between the description " liberals " and the people who are acting as censors in the situation portrayed by this particular sentence . |