Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] down [prep] the [noun] " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Over the years it has settled down to the equivalent of ‘ dinner for two ’ , thus about £60 in 1990 in Greenock . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mansfield 's attitude has echoed down through the centuries to the present day . |
| 11 | This remedy may come up after a Belladonna sore throat has gone down on the chest . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The name of Lads has survived down through the years from the 15th century . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It would always be the partner with a wife and kids who got shot down in the line of duty , giving his bachelor buddy the chance poignantly to break the news to his loved ones . |
| 17 | I think that it was when he got turned down for the job of a bus conductor . |
| 18 | And you could bet that the moment he 'd left they 'd sat down in the shade . |
| 19 | She 'd stayed down in the lane with a sullen look on her face . |
| 20 | They sat around one end of the work table , which now seemed vast and empty , and Alina Peterson explained how she 'd walked down to the village to look around and , where it seemed appropriate , to introduce herself . |
| 21 | On Nathan 's last morning they 'd driven down to the supermarket together . |
| 22 | The floorboards had n't snapped , as I 'd originally thought : they 'd gone down into the dock with Harry . |
| 23 | ‘ We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened . |
| 24 | She 'd gone down to the seashore with the dogs and there he 'd been , following her . |
| 25 | and he was let out and first , within twenty four hours he 'd gone down to the South Coast and killed his mother and his girl friend |
| 26 | Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose . |
| 27 | They really ought to have got moved down to the bottom . |
| 28 | The guidelines for interviewing laid down in the Market Research Society Code of Conduct should be adopted where relevant . |
| 29 | The family Rover also became bogged down on the beach road and his brother Anwar suffered a heart attack after spending a night on the open beach . |
| 30 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |