Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] down the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The railway station has been re-sited down the line to make room for the town 's bypass . |
2 | Decision taking has been delegated down the management structure : sales and support staff have more responsibility and freedom to respond to customer needs . |
3 | A KPMG spokesman said : " The environment has been pushed down the agenda of many private companies by other factors such as the recession and exchange rates . |
4 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
5 | Close inspection reveals that a strip of reverse grain timber has been laid down the centre in order to add strength — another old-fashioned idea and a good one , too . |
6 | She scraped them carefully and put them in a steel pan , covering them with the bottled still water in which they would be boiled , thereby retaining the vitamin C which would otherwise have been poured down the sink . |
7 | The ragazza should never have been put down the well , that was the fault of her husband who did n't fully understand the house and was ignorant of its ways . |
8 | He has started just two matches so far , having been pushed down the pecking order by the arrival of £2 million David Rocastle from Arsenal . |
9 | Finally , long after her ‘ spot ’ had been and gone , Deborah arrived , hot and flustered having been shunted down the Thames from London Weekend on a boat with a troupe of belly dancers all making last minute adjustments to their costumes , or lack of them . |
10 | Parole was not a new idea , having existed in parts of the United States since early in the twentieth century , and had been canvassed down the years . |
11 | When our mam died — our dad had been killed down the pit long before — he took me in and brought me up . |
12 | The Pakistan skipper had been drawn down the pitch by Tufnell 's flight . |
13 | He did not explain why the CIA had waited until December 1990 , to draw this conclusion when the ‘ proof had been available for at least a year , nor did he explain why no advance warning based on this report , reliable or not , had been passed down the line to those responsible for airline security . |
14 | As this representation is difficult for the draughtsman to interpret , mesh lines have been inserted down the front and side view axis ( to give Figure 6.23 ) . |
15 | Technological developments have been used down the ages to fragment jobs and de-skill workers , they claim . |