Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former Yorkshire and England fast bowler Arnie Sidebottom has turned down the offer of a coaching post at Surrey . |
| 2 | FORMER Arsenal winger George Armstrong has turned down the chance to become Malcolm Crosby 's assistant at Sunderland . |
| 3 | Moreover in The Tablet ( 16 April 1958 ) Shirley Williams pointed out another advantage that grant-maintained schools might have : Mr Baker has laid down that LEA schools must take in children up to the 1979 limit of numbers , so that as many parents as possible can get their children in , if they choose a particular school . |
| 4 | Mr Gatward said TVS has narrowed down the candidates for the MTM job to two . |
| 5 | Mr Gatward said TVS has narrowed down the candidates for the MTM job to two . |
| 6 | FILM legend Liz Taylor has turned down the chance of a comeback … playing a lesbian rancher . |
| 7 | and like me Auntie Jean has to go down three and four times a day sometimes . |
| 8 | Sheila Newell is pregnant , goalkeeper Anne Hill has stepped down , Cathy Mitchell has gone to Pegasus and Irish international Caroline Craig has decided to play qualifying hockey . |
| 9 | Given such a broad international consensus , shared by the more accommodationist Israeli and Western liberals , it is hardly surprising that since 1974 the PLO has played down the refugee issue , and concentrated on the only acceptable diplomacy concerning a territorial return to the 1949 Armistice Line . |
| 10 | RICHARD Dunwoody has turned down the chance to renew his association with former Champion Kribensis in the Bula Hurdle at Cheltenham on Saturday . |
| 11 | The silent watcher stared through the darkness at the place where Corbett had settled down to sleep . |
| 12 | But she was a cheery old sort , if a shade old-fashioned ( ‘ I am old enough to be your mother , Prime Minister' had gone down rather well ) , and when she finally shuddered to a halt , having gone through at least two red lights , she was rewarded with much applause . |
| 13 | Imagine , then , that Mandela had written down the story of his life , and that the manuscript was for sale . |
| 14 | And , with a thankful sigh , Shiona had sunk down on one of the sofas in the reception area . |
| 15 | She clung to the belief that Friend had sneaked down the wires through Karel 's network and one day he would come to rescue her … . |
| 16 | Old Saul was the culprit , Old Saul had gone down in our history and my personal mythology as the Castraitor , but thanks to the little creatures who flew the creek I had him in my power now . |
| 17 | The prosecution argued that the Newleys had driven down together from London ; after the murder , Mrs Newley had driven back in her husband 's car , and parked it near their home ; no doubt she hoped that the trip to Hampshire would never come to light . |
| 18 | Barrie Nye from Woughton on the Green in Milton Keynes had flagged down a lorry with smoking tyres on the M-One near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire . |
| 19 | It was the second time in successive World Cup ties that Leighton had let down his colleagues . |
| 20 | Alan Jones and Steve Abel have stepped down from committee due to other work commitments ; their involvement in the work of the TCP over recent years has been much appreciated . |
| 21 | In recent years other radio astronomers in Cambridge and New Mexico have pinned down the positions of previously unidentified galaxies with increasing accuracy . |
| 22 | EC-sponsored talks on the Gabcikovo dam dispute between Hungary and Slovakia in Brussels have broken down without agreement . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , there is a feeling that Northern Ireland has slipped down the Government 's agenda , in view of all its other financial worries . |
| 24 | The first of these concentrates on Taligent 's native implementation , now firmly based on a version of the Carnegie Mellon University Mach kernel , which IBM has slimmed down and turned into a true micro-kernel implementation . |
| 25 | The first of these concentrates on Taligent 's native implementation , now firmly based on a version of the Carnegie Mellon University Mach kernel , which IBM has slimmed down and turned into a true micro-kernel implementation . |
| 26 | The first of these concentrates on Taligent 's native implementation , now firmly based on a version of the Carnegie Mellon University Mach kernel , which IBM has slimmed down and turned into a true micro-kernel implementation . |
| 27 | Mr Hall has pared down the bebop style and you are left with the spirit , minus the meaningless displays of technique . |
| 28 | Mr Salmond has put down a Commons motion condemning the Budget changes in the oil taxation regime , which he says will cost the industry £500 million more in revenue to the exchequer in the first year . |
| 29 | RUSSIA has played down hopes that it is to host a superpower summit and sign a major disarmament treaty with the United States . |
| 30 | Mr. Leapor has put down a Grave-Stone in Memory of his Daughter ; and I should be glad if any of the ingenious Gentlemen you mention would be so good as to write a few Lines to be put upon it |