Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb pp] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one has ever given a satisfactory explanation of why Mr Ford said what he said — and it has gone down in the history books as just another Ford pratfall . |
| 2 | Over the years it has settled down to the equivalent of ‘ dinner for two ’ , thus about £60 in 1990 in Greenock . |
| 3 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 4 | And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there . |
| 5 | Widespread evidence indicated that it had burnt down in the later second century . |
| 6 | Once it was called Murias , and many stories were told of how it had sunk down from the upper world to Undersea . |
| 7 | That was why it was ever brought to light so it 's gone down to the next generation . |
| 8 | It 's come down through the years , this story . |
| 9 | But at least it 's w it 's wound down without the apprentices winding down . |