Example sentences of "have [verb] down [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Oxford have dropped down into the bottom half of the table , after losing by 1-0 for the third match running . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mr Farmer said : ‘ You have got down to the core of the problem . |
| 16 | To lose height pilots have to spiral down to the runway . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I like the way the lambs have settled down in the field have n't they ? |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | Sadly the opposition have gone down with the flu . |
| 24 | staff salaries have gone down over the last eighteen months |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I like this , its been proved that waiting list have gone down in the last six months |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Already , and it is hardly May , I have wandered down to the County Ground at Taunton to see old chums , and some not so old , and to see if I any longer belong . |
| 29 | Most businesses , including much of Hollywood , have shut down for the day . |
| 30 | Nicholson , who is being paid a handsome £5 million , is reported to have immersed himself so completely in the part that he wanders around the set mumbling the notorious Hoffa 's favourite phrases — even after the cameras have shut down for the night . |