Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] down [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Biochemistry , I see Mrs Hayman 's cholesterol has gone down a bit — Lizzie 's chest X-ray — haematology , Betty 's haemoglobin 's not too good — oh , the Hazell family 's tissue-typing results — ’ She gazed at them shaking her head sadly . |
| 2 | Lawrence thought his side had let down the fans . |
| 3 | Lawrence thought his side had let down the fans . |
| 4 | ‘ He thought the only explanation was that staff at the club had watered down the drinks . |
| 5 | The winter rain and snow had beaten down the weeds to a mulch of sodden brown stems , through which the bricks and rubbish on the ground protruded . |
| 6 | By contrast with the Geneva and Reykjavik summits between Mr Gorbachev and the former president , Mr Ronald Reagan , which were dominated by SDI , the issue has dropped down the superpower agenda . |
| 7 | Making way for the SunDragons , Sun has knocked down the prices of its existing 600MP multi-processing servers by seven to 17% , it says . |
| 8 | Once the child has calmed down the parent can make a brief comment about it all being over now and then continue as if the tantrum had not occurred . |
| 9 | And she was on his knee , and their arms were round each other , and though the sun had gone down the garden at that moment was glorious , full of a blaze of splendour that surrounded them like a halo . |
| 10 | Liz 's gurgle of laughter had floated down the wires . |
| 11 | Here when the sin in the darkness had been brought to the light its power was broken and in this case confession had battered down the barrier . |
| 12 | The European Community has turned down a request from the British Government for nearly twenty-five million pounds to assist coal-mining regions affected by pit closures . |
| 13 | David Pleat has turned down the chance to control his own destiny at crisis-club Luton . |
| 14 | But practitioners usually encounter elders at just those times when crisis has broken down the security of routine . |
| 15 | Even though X/Open no longer has any formal relationship with the Foundation , following the Cambridge , Massachusetts-based group 's withdrawal from its board at the end of last year , the open systems standards body has nailed down an agreement with OSF which will see all DCE specifications integrated into its Common Applications Environment , CAE , interfaces over the next 12 to 18 months . |
| 16 | Perhaps the pussy had fallen down the well again , they thought . |
| 17 | But the location 's convenience for those Oxbridge dons who formed the nucleus of the original community had weighed down the scales against possible danger of discovery ; and this judgment was vindicated , because we were never bombed . |
| 18 | As they moved towards me , I moved away , but at last I came to a part of the field where rain had knocked down the corn . |
| 19 | But now it 's not increasing as quickly , its gradient has come down a bit . |
| 20 | You will be aware exactly how far the ferret has progressed down the burrow by the marking on the line attached to its collar , so you now look down the hole as the line becomes moderately tight . |
| 21 | A FATHER has tracked down the love child he never saw — after 34 years . |
| 22 | The woman has turned down the offer of a caravan , and an attempt to buy her a seventy thousand pound house has been stopped by a public outcry . |
| 23 | The party had officially received less than 3 per cent of the votes in the April general election ( see p. 36603 ) , and before the poll Mestiri had turned down a proposal by the ruling RCD for a national coalition . |
| 24 | The fat undertaker had closed down the tailgate of the hearse and stood about on the gravel , twirling his keys . |
| 25 | When a man has cut down a bamboo it becomes a straight pole with a cylindrical hole down the middle , but that is not how it appears in the wild . |
| 26 | " The government has thrown down an apple of discord which has burst into flames and flooded the country " . |
| 27 | Until now , at least publicly , the society has played down the level of anxiety ; it has resisted taking any action that could be seen as anti-government . |
| 28 | Another Greek has cut down a Trojan who falls under the handle , leading us to the other side . |
| 29 | According to the head of Berlin 's Radiation Measurement Office , Udo Morfeld , the pollution has not created as big a problem as it could have because the clay soil has slowed down the seepage of radioactive material into the groundwater . |
| 30 | So he r he disappeared from view and the man 'd quietened down a bit . |