Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As time has gone by , the desirability of an improved diet , less smoking ( etc ) has filtered down throughout the social class structure , after originating with people whose opinions and experience ( for instance in the medical and other professions , the media and senior business management ) is , in any case , likely to be authoritative . |
| 4 | In Brazil there are all sorts of commodities whose price has gone down over the last ten years . |
| 5 | The members of this parliament immediately set about introducing legislation to reform abuses within the English Catholic church , and during the course of the next seven years they passed a series of statutes which would lead that church into schism and formalize its break with the Roman papacy , which has lasted down to the present day . |
| 6 | But you can see if this lot gets converted to carbonate and then that water then gets mixed down to the deep water , it will be replaced at the surface with water which has a low carbonate concentration which will suck more C O two out of the atmosphere . |
| 7 | That was why it was ever brought to light so it 's gone down to the next generation . |
| 8 | 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 |