Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] down in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bites generally occur when someone has sat down in woodland , bracken or heather , unaware that they are close to or on an adder . |
| 2 | These days PCs are to be had for half that price , which has dragged down in turn the prices obtainable for software . |
| 3 | The talks appeared to end unsatisfactorily , after becoming bogged down in disagreement over power-sharing proposals . |
| 4 | The child 's grandmother was screaming for help after becoming bogged down in mud when she plunged into the water after the youngster . |
| 5 | Vernon Russell , the head/wine waiter , is a Londoner who married a local woman and has settled down in Knutsford . |
| 6 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 7 | But Bob Champion 's immediate duties after his victory included the obligatory press conference , and his words there sum up why the 1981 Grand National has gone down in history not only as one of the most emotional races ever run , but as perhaps the most inspirational : |
| 8 | Neville Chamberlain has gone down in history , either as the politician who was duped by Hitler , or as a shrewd statesman who was playing for time , so Britain could re-arm . |
| 9 | She has gone down in history with this quote when she spotted a likely-looking toy boy at a celebrity bash . |
| 10 | ‘ But I ca n't be held responsible for — ’ she tried to argue — and got shot down in flames for her trouble . |
| 11 | Perhaps it has got bogged down in meetings and bureaucratic structures . |
| 12 | You could find it useful to comment on past reactions and to ask for a fresh angle : ‘ When we 've talked about having some staff working from home , we 've always got bogged down in cost factors regarding the technology needed . |
| 13 | I was so obsessive about most things that we 'd quickly have got bogged down in details if I 'd had my way . |
| 14 | How great ideas like the Church got bogged down in bureaucracy . |
| 15 | Many of these cars had to be towed off by a tractor which , like our forward line , itself became bogged down in midfield . |
| 16 | The affair then became bogged down in argument and procedural wrangles before the European Court of Justice . |
| 17 | What should have been a routine exercise in extending the Government 's borrowing power to $3.1 thousand billion became bogged down in wrangling over legislative initiatives lawmakers wanted to attach to the bill . |
| 18 | We hereby inform the valiant and heroic nation of Iran that last night 50 invading Iraqi tanks which , by the will of God , had become bogged down in mud were attacked by the fighting Iranian forces ; all of them were destroyed and the invaders fled . |
| 19 | The ministries become bogged down in detail when their energies and resources should be concentrated more on overall policy , and the ad hoc commissions grow disillusioned and frustrated because they are not allowed to get on with the job . |
| 20 | So you must not get bogged down in detail . |
| 21 | Collins only wants a wife because he feels that in the eyes of society it is about time for him to be married and to have settled down in life . |
| 22 | There had been reports on April 2 that a meeting to discuss the formation of a more representative government had broken down in disagreement between Crown Prince Saad and representatives of a coalition of merchant groups , Islamic parties and former members of parliament . |
| 23 | Peter would like it ; poor Peter , who had broken down in bed the night before , and wept that he had failed her , failed her as well as — but he could n't actually articulate that . |
| 24 | In an immediate response to the latest left-wing guerrilla offensive , the government on Sept. 5 ruled out the renewal of peace talks which had broken down in March [ see p. 38809 ] and were suspended indefinitely in May . |
| 25 | The prosecution claimed in its opening address that one of the men accused of the killing had broken down in front of his wife and confessed to the murder . |
| 26 | Oh they 've come down in price from when I 'm talking about , when they first come first out , they were quite a lot , a lot more |
| 27 | The decision had come down in favour of illusion : the President 's dream of triumphant new diplomacy and the hostages home . |
| 28 | By January , Soviet troops had cracked down in Lithuania , Soviet troop withdrawals from central Europe had ominously stopped . |
| 29 | Of his 8 previous Ulster supporters , 4 had gone down in defeat , I did not re-stand and 3 were marching under new orders which forbade them to give support as in the past . |
| 30 | It had run down in rivulets here and there like tears . |