Example sentences of "has [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In hospitals the system has broken down under the pressure of numbers and new teaching methods are only slowly being found , but teaching in general practice has remained close to the tradition in which older generations of doctors learnt their skills . |
| 2 | Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night . |
| 3 | Danny has to go down on the floor , put his hands on hips and go , evening all ! |
| 4 | This was used by Bourgeois and Certon for Ps. 36 and Goudimel for Ps. 68 , ‘ Que Dieu se montre seulement ’ , but has come down through the centuries as a hymn to Sebaldus Heyden 's words ‘ O Mensch bewein dein Sunde gross ’ . |
| 5 | This group is remarkable not only for the quality of its work , but also for the fact that no individual has ever been known by name ; only the corporate identity has come down across the years . |
| 6 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 7 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 8 | While the rate of management buyouts has slowed down with the recession those that were launched in Scotland had a good record of being completed . |
| 9 | There is some evidence that the rate of increase has slowed down in the 1980s , but there still were more than 160,000 divorces in 1985 . |
| 10 | After a few hours ' driving , we stop by a small lake brimming with clear water which has tumbled down from the escarpment through dense forest . |
| 11 | As time has gone by , the desirability of an improved diet , less smoking ( etc ) has filtered down throughout the social class structure , after originating with people whose opinions and experience ( for instance in the medical and other professions , the media and senior business management ) is , in any case , likely to be authoritative . |
| 12 | Over the years it has settled down to the equivalent of ‘ dinner for two ’ , thus about £60 in 1990 in Greenock . |
| 13 | But when he comes to the foot of the mountain and sees the worship of the calf for himself , we hear the sound of his anger too , and see him smashing the tablets of stone that he has brought down from the summit inscribed with God 's torah . |
| 14 | Mansfield 's attitude has echoed down through the centuries to the present day . |
| 15 | In Brazil there are all sorts of commodities whose price has gone down over the last ten years . |
| 16 | This remedy may come up after a Belladonna sore throat has gone down on the chest . |
| 17 | No one has ever given a satisfactory explanation of why Mr Ford said what he said — and it has gone down in the history books as just another Ford pratfall . |
| 18 | This same process has continued down to the present , now with the next generation of Hirmers , Albert and Irmgard , supplying many new plates , especially of the recently restored churches at Wies and Dießen . |
| 19 | The name of Lads has survived down through the years from the 15th century . |
| 20 | Obviously a lot of this racism has seeped down from the top ; for example the police are part of a racist legal system so you 've got to expect them to hold those views . |
| 21 | Each time she does so , the male has to dig down to the buried vegetation and cover it over again . |
| 22 | The members of this parliament immediately set about introducing legislation to reform abuses within the English Catholic church , and during the course of the next seven years they passed a series of statutes which would lead that church into schism and formalize its break with the Roman papacy , which has lasted down to the present day . |