Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had made a complete fool of herself and had successfully lived down to every low opinion that Piers harboured about her . |
| 2 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 3 | It was very quiet and the noises from the wood became distinguishable , as if the wood itself had suddenly moved down nearer the track . |
| 4 | The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time . |
| 5 | Slorne had already calmed down by the time Creggan and Minch had finished speaking and the following evening the Sweeper came and she was calm again . |
| 6 | Anne had already trimmed down to a reasonable weight with the help of Weight Watchers , and she pleaded for new ideas to strengthen her resolve . |
| 7 | The benefits of sustained economic growth in the developed countries had not filtered down to the developing nations during the 1980s . |
| 8 | Aug. 2 , the anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , was marked by a broadcast by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in which he described the Iraqis as the true victors in the subsequent war , on the grounds that Iraq had not backed down in the face of the enormous odds against it . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's a tough customer , ’ remarked Melissa when they had finally settled down for the night . |
| 10 | And then she saw to her amazement that the man who had just climbed down from the cab was knocking on her door . |
| 11 | Descending the stone steps from the station platform , Durham turned up the gas and had just sat down on the bench and opened his bait tin when he was startled by the apparition of a strange man followed by a large black retriever dog emerging from the coal cellar . |
| 12 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 13 | Brown Owl called out anxiously to Mr. Gordon , who had just come down to the gate leading into the Brownies ' meadow . |
| 14 | Such a system , based on social class and the old school tie , had never become quite so entrenched across the Atlantic in the first place , and had largely broken down by the end of the 1950s . |
| 15 | Nemesis had still come down like the wolf on the fold . |
| 16 | The tape measure had now to go down into the hollow as well as across the circle , and it was not long enough to do this . |
| 17 | The initial alarm that had swept over her in the apartment had now settled down into a tight knot of almost sick apprehension , which lay like heavy lead deep in her stomach . |
| 18 | Well I had n't got down to the R yet I had n't reached |
| 19 | After a couple of hours , Zeno had simply lain down on the floor and gone to sleep . |
| 20 | He began to talk again about Stephen handing him the wedding-dress , how he 'd walked away with it and had then sat down on a seat on the promenade , not wanting to go on with his act any more . |
| 21 | Blood had initially drained down to the back of the neck , thighs and mid-back . ’ |
| 22 | The idea was that the police would wait until they had incontrovertible evidence before moving in for the arrest , but Branson and Draper had barely sat down with the Clarkes before some forty policemen swarmed through the door , knocking over tables and chairs and arresting the two brothers . |
| 23 | He had actually slumped down at the breakfast table before he became aware of Kelly 's presence . |