Example sentences of "have [vb pp] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these puzzles , Jim , must 've fallen down behind the erm fermenting bin . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Somali nation has broken down into its tribes and there is little trust between them . |
| 4 | Coates ( 1985 , pp. 27 , 77 ) , for example , argues that in recent decades narrative has broken down to be replaced by a cinema of ‘ isolated heterogeneous events held together by the ramshackle constructions of Victorian melodrama ’ , and that from the mid-1960s we have seen the dissolution of the distinction between realist and non-realist film . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A few weeks ago I said there were 10 teams in contention , now I reckon it has whittled down to six . |
| 7 | SOONER than anyone expected , the mayoral contest in New York has shaken down into a re-run of the 1989 race between David Dinkins , now the incumbent , and Rudolph Giuliani , his Republican rival . |
| 8 | Bites generally occur when someone has sat down in woodland , bracken or heather , unaware that they are close to or on an adder . |
| 9 | The moral vocabulary of these accusations against sentimentality , leniency and crinolined philanthropy that unfolded in the wake of the great legislative transformations of this era is one which we would find entirely familiar in our own historical time , and which has rolled down to us virtually unchanged across more than a century of resistance to penal reform . |
| 10 | It has come down to personalities and Julia is very disturbed by it all . |
| 11 | Much medieval painting has come down to us in a fragmentary condition , and often in a very poor state of conservation . |
| 12 | It was he who wrote the famous book which has come down to us by its Arab translation , and is known as the Almagest . |
| 13 | In fact the definition has come down to us unchanged from the Agriculture Act 1947 , and includes all land used for , among other things , dairy farming , livestock breeding and keeping , grazing or meadows . |
| 14 | Moreover , if we explore the course of English Literature , if we consider from what source its stream has sprung , by what tributaries it has been fed , and with how rich and full current it has come down to us , we shall see that it has other advantages not to be found elsewhere . |
| 15 | Thus from this moment , the beginning of the classical period , when bronze becomes the favourite material for freestanding statues , the number of originals which has come down to us is sadly small . |
| 16 | In tracing the antiquity of Langridge we find that this manor has come down to Robin Wood via Henry Golding , Barber , Leveson , Whornes , Watson , Melford and Roger Bavent who held it with John de Langereche and finally back to Adam de Bavent during the reign of Edward I. Robin Wood died 14th July 1738 and is buried in Hailing Church . |
| 17 | The mutilated text of the passage of Polybius has come down to us in the Excerpta de sententiis and the keyword " he wept " , has to be supplied from Diodorus ( 32.24 ) with the support of Appian , Punica 132 : they are known to have used Polybius directly or indirectly . |
| 18 | Biblioth. , P.L. 28.556 ) , and Origen still knew its Hebrew title , which has come down to us in a corrupt and unintelligible form , Sarbethsabanaiel ( ap . |
| 19 | That is what the splendour of the sea has come down to , |
| 20 | The structure of Liberal argument , both at the time and as it has come down to us in modern land law texts , is thus built upon two suppositions . |
| 21 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 25 | It may well be the same story that has come down in two different strands of tradition . |
| 26 | One balade , addressed to ‘ Maister Carpenter ’ , has come down in his own hand , with a marginal list showing that the poem , which is a begging letter , could be recycled , and addressed to a new recipient on each occasion . |
| 27 | Emulating its action against Hirac Inc in the US , Sparc International , the evangelising supporters group for Sun Microsystems Inc 's RISC has come down like a ton of bricks on a small UK start-up trying to carve a living out of the Sparc-compatible space . |
| 28 | Since March 1990 , the number of patients waiting more than two years has come down by 47 per cent . |
| 29 | The number of hours a week worked by juniors has come down by about 10 hours since the Labour party was in power . |
| 30 | The optimum completion time has come down by one minute to 11 minutes and more time is being allowed on the roads and tracks section before the cross country . |