Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] down in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It began to break down in the post-war years and during that period , too , the concentration of control functions in London also began to increase . |
| 2 | Disconnected , their instrument of memory fails to record anything of those common night-time moments that preceded lying down in the marital bed . |
| 3 | That the original Phillips curve did break down in the late 1960s is clearly illustrated in Fig. 6.3 where the curve estimated by Phillips is shown together with the observed combination of the unemployment percentage and the rate of wage inflation from 1966 to 1985 . |
| 4 | If not I suggest it should be and , er , therefore if unfortunately the profits of the company did go down in the foreseeable future the salaries of yourself and your directors would be reduced . |
| 5 | My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps , where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen , leaving him miles to walk back to any road . |
| 6 | But she was gone , she had run down in the thick tree shadows to a side street , was down that and in the busy main street within sixty seconds after she had thrown the stone . |
| 7 | He had to kneel down in the muddy track , damaging his trousers , reminding him of playground agonies ; he gripped , tugged , balanced . |
| 8 | I thought the TV aerial had blown down in the strong winds . |