Example sentences of "have [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 On occasion there is n't sufficient water available from the stream or the rainwater tub , and I have to go down to the reservoir , which I call the Mississippi , to rinse the washing .
2 We 'll need another two or three days here , but I have to go down to the mortuary with the body .
3 Welsh Water has dragged many old-age pensioners and under-privileged people through the courts of Wales because they have fallen down on the odd instalment on their water charges .
4 Her family have travelled down from the city to the Devon hospital where the attack happened .
5 As an overall thing we probably take about a hundred and fifty phone calls every day from policy holders , and I suppose out of that you I suppose you people that have n't erm have broken down at the side of the road will ring up or something .
6 Great imperial systems propelled by steam have broken down into a myriad nationalities propelled by the internal-combustion engine and oil .
7 So often the right tool for the job is hanging in the tool shed at home when you are helping a friend in his house , or have broken down in the car away from home .
8 You have to sit down for a minute —
9 The moon threatens to come out from behind the clouds again and I have to jump down to the paving stones of the patio beneath .
10 for me meeting with Jim was to say , yes , that 's fine but if at the end of the day we have to train down to a certain level within our group , there 's no way can we afford five man-days of lost fees and fifteen hundred pounds .
11 The clouds have dropped down over the mountain so that the evangelicals and charismatics on the first contour above the town have vanished into the mist .
12 Oxford have dropped down into the bottom half of the table , after losing by 1-0 for the third match running .
13 the people that have left are sort of in the recession and that now , there 's all the really big business people and that that have come down to the same level as everybody else .
14 But we had to choose , early on , which side we belonged to , and children have to come down on the side that brings the food home and gets it on the table .
15 Past Gèdre , the landscape reverts again to its harsher , more primeval mode , as you drive through what is known as the Chaos de Coumély , a wilderness of massive boulders that have rolled down from the mountain on the left .
16 If you notice several exit holes in the galls but have found no adults , it is possible that the larvae have crawled down into the compost or soil before becoming pupae .
17 The clothing and electronics factories have closed down in the Northeast , and the shifts specially designed for mothers , the part-time and twilight , were the first to go .
18 Mr Farmer said : ‘ You have got down to the core of the problem .
19 To lose height pilots have to spiral down to the runway .
20 For enforcement agents the consequences of reorganization , with its greater degree of bureaucratic control , have reached down to the field and begun to change the character of the job .
21 I like the way the lambs have settled down in the field have n't they ?
22 And the effects have rippled down through the years into just about every local music scene in America , from the blues players to the hillbillies up in the mountains . ’
23 Exports to China have slipped down to the 1987 levels after an artificial high in 1988 caused by the coincidence of a number of major orders .
24 In a move to tighten control of a far-reaching empire and to improve the group 's own image , Maurice and Charles Saatchi , credited with building up the company , have stepped down from the day-to-day running of the group .
25 But look a little more deeply and you will see that something else has happened too ; if a number of people have gone down with the cold , does not it mean that a number of people have not gone down with the cold ?
26 Sadly the opposition have gone down with the flu .
27 staff salaries have gone down over the last eighteen months
28 Can i do you want figures on commodities I think quite a lot of us are aware that coffee prices have gone down in the last ten years .
29 I like this , its been proved that waiting list have gone down in the last six months
30 On numerous occasions massive Orc armies have swept down from the north , destroying the towns and cities of Kislev and invading the northern provinces of the Empire .
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