Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOUR computer has just broken down . |
| 2 | And erm I 've found out in , in our area in South Bank , the local hardware shop has just shut down . |
| 3 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 4 | The sun has just gone down . |
| 5 | Our business has just gone down and down , and now demand has run out . |
| 6 | I know my sister 's mortgage has just gone down . |
| 7 | He jumps up from the day-bed on which he has just sat down . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | The Indians had taken the radio telephones ( they 'd have gone off with the genny if they 'd had a crane ) and Caracas thought they 'd just broken down again so came as per normal . |
| 10 | She 'd just gone down there to look for any good-natured sucker . |
| 11 | He 'd just gone down there because er . |
| 12 | Cursin " he was " cos he 'd just settled down to his kipper . |
| 13 | There was a certain cynicism in the agency girl 's eyes , but Diane was n't somebody who 'd just climbed down off the backwoods bus . |
| 14 | Apparently he was a bit worried , so I said — oh , it sounds silly — that we 'd only just got back , that I 'd just sat down … . ’ |
| 15 | Nor with the grumbling of people who did n't want to stand up when they 'd just sat down . |
| 16 | Crawford jumped at the chance to star alongside Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau in a Hollywood musical , having just turned down 10,000 to appear in a British film . |
| 17 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 18 | It 's about this research proposal you 've just turned down — what do you mean , ‘ It 's not proper health services research ? ’ |
| 19 | Hello , , ah , I bet it 's something I 've just written down , is n't it ? |
| 20 | When do you do a newspaper — I 've just written down here — you provide a dress and provide a grammar . |
| 21 | Now , based on the information that you 've just taken down you need to give thought to the way in which you compile those . |
| 22 | Well I was I 've looked , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire , I 've just glanced down the table at certainly at the er my Greater York district colleagues , and er certainly we er are rather surprised that er you have the impression that you have the impression that er erm we could do without the erm the new settlement , quite clearly erm erm certainly Harrogate , Selby , er and Ryedale , and the County Council , believe the the new settlement is absolutely essential , erm and I think that 's erm erm certainly a matter of agreement between er us and those three districts , it 's absolutely essential . |
| 23 | I 've just sat down on a hairbrush ! ’ |
| 24 | I 've just driven down from Manchester and I 'm slightly knackered . |
| 25 | ‘ You mean , you 've just come down ? ’ said Bob , trying out of politeness not to sound incredulous . |
| 26 | I 've only just started so he said er I 've just come down to you know . |
| 27 | I 've just put down erm whatever I know that is |
| 28 | So we were back before the firebox , exhausted and happy , and Laura had just shut down the kiln , when Edward came round into the yard again . |
| 29 | Reports said a SAM 727 had just touched down at El Dorado international airport when an Air France Boeing 747 came roaring over it and landed ahead on the same runway . |
| 30 | Lambert , limping badly , wore a French police helmet , and Dangerfield was wiping mud from his eyes : he had just fallen down . |