Example sentences of "had [vb pp] down [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She had detoured through the town 's central square on the way home and had sat down on a bench , raising her head to the trees .
2 John Simpson had also been appalled by the competition entries for Paternoster Square and , at a very late stage , had managed to get hold of a copy of the brief — — to provide office space and car parking — and had sat down with a number of colleagues to draw up a scheme of their own .
3 One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels .
4 In the garden around the museum , designed by Renzo Piano , stands Barnett Newman 's ‘ Broken Obelisk ’ of 1968 , which the city fathers of Houston had turned down as a gift : it was dedicated to the memory of Martin Luther King , murdered that year .
5 See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ?
6 On 14 December 1991 , the south-southeast-trending fracture widened ( maximum extension by April 1992 , 1.5m ) , lava was erupted close to the summit , and by 15 December activity had moved down to a site 2,400m a.s.l. where the fracture intersects the western cliff wall of the Valle del Bove .
7 He had not realized that the boundaries of the black hole according to the two definitions would be the same , and hence so would their areas , provided the black hole had settled down to a state in which it was not changing with time .
8 This in an ordinary way would not have mattered , but it mattered in this particular case and mattered quite fatally , because at various stages of the discussion , when we seemed to be reaching an agreement , I pressed Mr Smith about whether there was any likelihood , whatever the agreement was , that it would be acceptable to the entire population of Rhodesia , which the British government had laid down as a precondition .
9 The Special Advisory Board for the Army Medical Service had laid down as a basis for treatment ‘ a more or less continuous course of mercury by mouth for 1½ to 2 years ’ combined with mercurial ointment rubbed into the skin for 20 to 30 minutes daily over a six-week period .
10 Earlier , scrum half Davy Emerson had touched down after a bout of pressure on the Queen 's line , and full-back Trevor McKeown kicked a simple penalty .
11 he had gone down without a sound — and by the time he had woken up , his ship had been two days out into the Channel .
12 White as any linen , she had sunk down on a rock .
13 One of the most important concerns the ending , which was to have been based on an Old Believer melody Mussorgsky had taken down from a friend .
14 Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , the minister responsible for home affairs in Scotland , confirmed that the Government had backed down on a proposal to abolish a contributory band for those applicants seeking advice and assistance .
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