Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It began to break down by the 1790s when the pressure of a growing population and insufficient work meant that over a fifth of the labour force was virtually permanently unemployed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Er because the pit bottom was lit up and it meant going down into the dark , an exciting thought for a young fella , er and so off I went and I was put down on one of the faces , as a lad , and said , Right lad , you want to be collier ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there . |
| 6 | Widespread evidence indicated that it had burnt down in the later second century . |
| 7 | Once it was called Murias , and many stories were told of how it had sunk down from the upper world to Undersea . |