Example sentences of "[verb] have [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At several sites , protesting miners were reported to have gone down the pits and stayed there following the announcement . |
| 2 | In July FIS militants were reported to have burned down a divorced woman 's house " to purge her sins ' , resulting in the death of her three-year-old son . |
| 3 | In the first attack of its type in the 11-year civil war , the FMLN were said to have shot down an A-37 jet aircraft on Nov. 23 with a Sam-7 or Sam-14 ground-to-air missile . |
| 4 | Boulders up to 3 km long are said to have fallen down a scarp along an outcrop more than 300 km long . |
| 5 | Polisario also claimed to have shot down a Moroccan Mirage F-1 fighter and to have succeeded in occupying a 25-km section of the Moroccan wall . |
| 6 | The LTTE claimed to have shot down a Marchetti combat aircraft with a SAM 7 missile . |
| 7 | On Aug. 4 and 5 , in the week before UN staff were due to arrive in the territory to start preparing the January 1992 UN-supervised referendum [ see p. 38169 ] , Moroccan aircraft strafed the oasis of Tfariti in the north-east , near the Mauritanian border , while Polisario Front guerrillas claimed to have shot down a Moroccan aircraft . |
| 8 | Pulled in by the cops , having to rescue a naked vicar and now it looked as if I was going to have to talk down a paranoid lesbian . |
| 9 | Bristol City winger Junior Bent has turned down a loan move to Plymouth . |
| 10 | However , there is 5000 tonnes a year of , presumably , both mildly and highly toxic wastes that appears to have gone down a hole somewhere — perhaps literally . |
| 11 | But now he 's in his forties he seems to have slowed down a bit . ’ |
| 12 | The largest landslide of all in the Alps , that of Flims in Switzerland , is calculated to have brought down a mass of three cubic miles of material . |
| 13 | Carried away by his success young Thomas Borrow had knocked down the officer , then aggravated his offence by twice striking to the ground his master , Mr. Hambly . |
| 14 | By the time I had been an intern for a few more months , doing my rounds in my white coat with stethoscope dangling round my neck ( and feeling very important ) , Father had had to close down the second branch , leaving — for the time being — only the original shop which he had opened near the Market Place where the annual Goose Fair was held . |
| 15 | they 've had to close down the spi , and that . |
| 16 | Yesterday , Marchant boss Philip Marchant said : ‘ We have had to batten down the hatches . |
| 17 | The crew of the Type 21 frigate HMS Avenger also claims to have shot down an Exocet with one . |