Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [vb pp] down [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it has got bogged down in meetings and bureaucratic structures . |
| 2 | The talks were reported to have broken down on Jan. 21 over the issue of the withdrawal of JNA forces from areas of Croatia not under UN protection , although both sides affirmed their commitment to the ceasefire . |
| 3 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 4 | ( To avoid getting bogged down with routine reporting at the expense of his DIA mission , he had telexed Ms Starnes from Zurich to say he had been denied entry , a diplomatic untruth that still gives him a twinge when he thinks of it . ) |
| 5 | If it 's a pest , cull it properly , get the authorities in , we 've got more and more specialists sitting in those chambers telling us what to do on farming issues , on B S E , we 've got coming , we 've got a a team of experts , well not one of them has told said gone down in favour of hunting . |
| 6 | I was so obsessive about most things that we 'd quickly have got bogged down in details if I 'd had my way . |
| 7 | Whiting 's or Whitting 's as it is sometimes spelt has a name that seems to have come down through generations , and one authority tempts to suggest that it may be of Saxon period . |
| 8 | The farmers going to market had come down from Barking and Ringshall and those places , and on the rough owd country roads they managed ; but as soon as they got to the tarred road in Needham street they had to stop . |
| 9 | We hereby inform the valiant and heroic nation of Iran that last night 50 invading Iraqi tanks which , by the will of God , had become bogged down in mud were attacked by the fighting Iranian forces ; all of them were destroyed and the invaders fled . |
| 10 | Can you imagine getting dragged down to Lord 's only after you 'd been hung up by every sports page in the country ? |