Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [vb pp] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | The name of Lads has survived down through the years from the 15th century . |
5 | Mansfield 's attitude has echoed down through the centuries to the present day . |
6 | Pete 's gone down to the shop and got yourself a bottle whisky . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
9 | In Brazil there are all sorts of commodities whose price has gone down over the last ten years . |
10 | There is only , well there are sixteen hours that er that Norman 's put down for the total technical work supervision on the job , I would have thought that perhaps that might be quite tight , er you know bearing in mind that it 's maybe a job that requires a |
11 | Bob 's put down for the Wednesday and the Thursday off , so it 's the Tuesday and the Friday I 'm stuck on the second week |
12 | I think Shel 's got down to the beginning again ! |
13 | Now it 's pretty obvious one side the fo A forklift has tried to put a pallet in between two and nudged the pallet next to it and it 's the pallet 's dropped down into the racking . |
14 | There is some evidence that the rate of increase has slowed down in the 1980s , but there still were more than 160,000 divorces in 1985 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | This remedy may come up after a Belladonna sore throat has gone down on the chest . |
17 | 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 . |