Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Habsburg dynasty Dr Otto von Habsburg , son of the last King-Emperor of Hungary , has politely turned down an offer to stand in next month 's Hungarian presidential election as the candidate of the Smallholders party . |
| 2 | The share price has only gone down because the market is generally down . |
| 3 | Earlier lava flows , before the coming of man , date back a million years , but since that time the Colorado River has only cut down about 50 feet . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Whether Rainbow remembers or not , history will never know , because she is too busy choking on a gulp of tea that has suddenly slipped down the wrong way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My set-up seems to suit these fish — my last Plec lived apparently quite happily for 15 years , and the latest arrival has soon settled down and is growing very quickly . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | IBM Corp 's Technology Products unit — IBMspeak for the chip business — has finally nailed down some US distributors for the chips , subsystems and packaging products it wants to offer on the merchant market : the national distributors are Bell Industries Inc , Los Angeles , Bell Microproducts Inc , San Jose and Marshall Industries Inc , El Monte , California ; regional manufacturer 's representatives appointed include Bonser-Philhower Sales of Richardson , Texas , for Texas , Oklahoma , Louisiana and Arkansas ; S J Associates of Rockville Centre , New York for the Mid-Atlantic , Metro and Upstate New York regions , Connecticut and Eastern Pennsylvania ; Nexus of Mountain View , for Northern California ; Centaur Corp of Irvine for Southern California ; and Mill-Bern Associates of Woburn , Massachusetts for the states of Vermont , New Hampshire and Maine . |
| 10 | After months of pursuing its quarry , it looks like IXI Ltd has finally nailed down the OEM agreement with DEC for its X.desktop manager that has been long in the making . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The feelings of contentment run deep ; Monica Dickens has finally put down her roots . |
| 13 | YOUR computer has just broken down . |
| 14 | And erm I 've found out in , in our area in South Bank , the local hardware shop has just shut down . |
| 15 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 16 | The sun has just gone down . |
| 17 | Our business has just gone down and down , and now demand has run out . |
| 18 | I know my sister 's mortgage has just gone down . |
| 19 | He jumps up from the day-bed on which he has just sat down . |
| 20 | The French prime minister has just thrown down a gauntlet to America on agricultural trade : he wants to rewrite the deal recently struck by America and the EC on farm exports ( see page 92 ) . |
| 21 | Even if Telecom could get planning permission for its Ballsbridge site ( although it is difficult to see anyone now wanting to get caught up in a possible planning scandal on top of what has already gone down ) the development costs are going to be huge . |
| 22 | Lobbying by pharmaceutical companies has already watered down a proposed directive which at first suggested forcing them to include detailed information on dosage and usage on advertisements . |
| 23 | Some peers , led by Baroness Thatcher , are keen for a referendum , which the Commons has already turned down . |
| 24 | What is clear is that if economic growth — which has already slowed down , particularly during the 1980s , in most of the industrial countries — continues to decline , while the claims of governments to legitimacy remain founded primarily upon their ability to promote such growth , then we can anticipate a period of increasing political instability and turbulence . |
| 25 | The New Zealanders continue to strive for new Everests in rugby achievement and their coach , Alex Wyllie , has already thrown down the gauntlet by stating : ‘ If we lose a single game we will consider the tour a failure . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He has already laid down a marker by setting the fastest time in history during pre-season testing at the oval track in Phoenix , Arizona , where the next round of the Indycar series will be held on 4 April . |
| 28 | The Bank of Japan has already nudged down overnight rates ; if the spring pay round shows wage rises to be moderating , it could then cut the discount rate . |
| 29 | Rushdie has anyway turned down the offer , since , as he says ‘ it 's my job to produce the stuff , not to review it ’ . |
| 30 | The motel-supermarket-hamburger civilization has now been superimposed on what was left of nineteenth-century towns , and has further worn down the differences between one region and the next , but it is doubtful whether the mass mind or the mass man has yet come to pass , except to the extent that people always conform to a prevailing style while it lasts . |