Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] had [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Angela did n't want to get involved — she did n't need the capital , after all — and she said to me she might do it in a year or so when Miss Huntley had calmed down . ’ |
| 2 | He was also working on Cornish subjects based on drawings made the previous March when he , Eric Verrico and Bobby Hunt had gone down to Mevagissey , where Nessie Dunsmuir was living alone whilst Sydney Graham was in America . |
| 3 | Miss Clinton had driven down the dale , but as she was bound for Scotland she would cross the river by the road-bridge four miles down and then turn back again upstream on the opposite side of the river . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By the time he reached his fifties , Ollie Reed had slowed down somewhat . |
| 6 | After his conversation with the Zoo Curator Mr Wolski had gone down to the eagles and stared into Minch 's empty cage . |
| 7 | ‘ [ The eunuch ] waited until the hour Shah Jehan had sat down to dinner , ’ wrote Manucci . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Earlier that season Stewart had turned down the chance of an amateur international cap for England against Wales in order to play for Casuals against Wimbledon . |
| 10 | He told them about Marylebone , the night at the hotel , the terms Zack had laid down for the rendezvous , and how he had just made the deadline . |
| 11 | For several years it looked like Billy Bremner had calmed down , the excessive niggling was more controlled and the bristling temper was kept on a leash , but trouble was always brooding just beneath the surfaces . |
| 12 | Beau Brummel had laid down the requirements for men 's evening wear at Almack 's . |
| 13 | And then back home with Ted and Frieda both asleep and Jo gone , it had all burst up in tears Maggie had squashed down with cigarettes . |
| 14 | Cumberland was for the moment needed in England and after , to everyone 's relief , the discredited Field Marshal Wade had turned down the post of Commander-in-Chief in Scotland it was , on 24 December , accepted by Lieut-General Henry Hawley , known from his record as a disciplinarian as ‘ Hangman Hawley ’ . |
| 15 | Richie Daly had sailed down the Mersey in the same convoy as Gerry and now he was home . |
| 16 | Gregory should have added a second but he headed tamely over after Gary Thompson had stormed down the right . |
| 17 | The only saving grace was that the number Quinn had dictated down the line to Zack was still on the Kensington exchange . |
| 18 | Li Yuan had looked down ; now he looked up again , surprised by his father 's words . |
| 19 | In the midst of these , in 1926 , there arrived in India the man who was to take up the challenge Gandhi had thrown down to the Englishman 's belief in his god-given aptitude for rule — the sixteenth viceroy , Lord Irwin . |
| 20 | Hammond moved from the doorway , picking up the map Kim had set down on the table . |
| 21 | Before the Colonel and his wife had helped themselves from the sideboard to cakes and sandwiches , and Fru Møller had put down a pot of tea on the table in front of them , Elisabeth Danziger had found the strength to rise and walk slowly out of the drawing-room and up the stairs . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They said that James Salperton had turned down the offer of a fifth series and the producers were unwilling to continue without him . |
| 24 | However , by simply being Mr Decent , ie by not declaring a desire to eliminate his opponents , or referring to expressions of social concern as ‘ drooling and drivelling ’ and people who care as ‘ moaning minnies ’ , John Major had put down a slender but steady plank for enough people to cross from a public culture of concern and responsibility to a private preference for Conservative government . |