Example sentences of "have [verb] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that the Commission has turned down the unanimous decision of the Catering Sub-Committee to invite the London food commission to give advice on how healthy and nutritious the food in the Members ' and Strangers ' Cafeterias is , what will the Leader of the House do to improve the situation ? |
| 2 | She was blue when they carried her in , but it looks as though the stone has gone down the right way . ’ |
| 3 | She 'd turned down the only chance she had had . |
| 4 | Of course , you 'd have to track down the right person . ’ |
| 5 | They may have gone down the medium wave dial from 10.17 to 8.55 , but their new premises in Ludlow is more than a few steps up from the barn . |
| 6 | And Joanna had sped down the outer stairway , crying and joyous at once . |
| 7 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 8 | The youngster had fallen down the steep embankment on the Colchester side of the station , injuring her back and legs , and was unable to move . |
| 9 | Within days of the settlement Mass Observation reported widespread shame ‘ that we had let down the whole tradition of England 's pledges for honesty , fair play and resistance to threats . ’ |
| 10 | , you had a built in , and on the left , they 've torn down the whole building . |
| 11 | Yeah , I mean , they 've torn down the whole building inside the big . |
| 12 | Manager Trevor Francis confirmed yesterday that he had turned down the huge offer from Toulon . |
| 13 | Material things they had in plenty , and though they had moved to cheaper housing she could not actually remember feeling that they had moved down the social ladder at all . |
| 14 | It was reported on Aug. 1 that the Albanian government had closed down the Albanian State Bank 's foreign exchange department after losses totalling $170,000,000 were disclosed in the department 's foreign exchange trading since 1988 . |
| 15 | Long before that — at least as early as 1775 — the courts had laid down the general principle of law that a person can not bring an action based on his own wrong ( ex turpi causa non oritur actio ) . |
| 16 | Although the Treaty of Rome had laid down the fundamental freedom of movement of workers ( Arts 48 – 51 ) and the right of establishment in any economic activity across all member states , a succession of secondary legislation has been required to give concrete form to these principles . |
| 17 | Fluttering rags revealed where Ace 's and Johannsen 's blaster fire had cut down the black-robed enemy personnel . |
| 18 | Even if the black hole did emit the right kinds of particles , one could not tell if they were actually the same particles that had gone down the other hole . |
| 19 | By 10.30 he had gone down the full length of the corridor that ran past his office and he had then spent two and a half hours in H3 's laboratory . |
| 20 | Remember that he says he then , in his fright at what he had done , went to peer at his victim , and found that he had struck down the wrong man . |
| 21 | ‘ So you are saying plainly , ’ said Earl Robert , attentive and still , ‘ that there were two murderers , at least in intent , and this wretched brother , once he knew he had struck down the wrong man , had no reason in the world to wish him further harm . ’ |
| 22 | They were allowed in by his father but then had to break down the locked bedroom door . |
| 23 | Months of raw sewage had passed down the scarred pavement outside and a thin layer of grass — a bright , sickly , unreal green — had crept over the doorstep and into the building . |
| 24 | Members in Ireland have tracked down the original carriage ; it was acting as a holiday home , and was virtually intact ! |
| 25 | The German environmental authorities have closed down the Central Institute for Isotope and Radiation Research , a nuclear research centre based in East Berlin after officials discovered massive contamination of the soil on the premises during routine tests . |
| 26 | The Lithuanian authorities have closed down the nuclear reactor at Ignalina because of a unspecified fault . |
| 27 | I have set down the following experience as one that has haunted me for many years . |
| 28 | Or bits that have gone down the wrong way ? |
| 29 | Before you can have a revolution you have to break down the existing system . ’ |
| 30 | Before you can have a revolution you have to break down the existing system . |