Example sentences of "[noun pl] who have [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , as they left the shuttle lounge at Heathrow , mixed in with the commuters and shoppers who had come down for the day , Adam saw the tail . |
| 2 | ‘ In the last ten years football has been littered with Wembley teams who have gone down . ’ |
| 3 | In addition , with all the hype over the new stand , many bookmakers who had deserted Down Royal , were now keen to be seen to be taking a renewed interest in betting there — obviously with the view to establishing a cosy pitch when grand opening day on July 13 takes place . |
| 4 | The first heroes in the battle to adapt to the damage are the referees at all levels who have sat down amongst themselves , worked out interpretations , decided what to ignore in the letter of the law ; and because the superior team can no longer launch sustained driving to sap the opposition , you find that inferior teams are still fresh as daisies at the end . |
| 5 | There is also the adjective so-called , which in a comparably explicit way calls into question the relation between an entity and the description or properties which might be supposed to belong to it : ( 42 ) it is the so-called liberals who have closed down the press The author of this sentence is not casting doubt on the existence of the people he is writing about , nor on the existence of such properties as may be characterized by the word liberals ( nor for that matter the existence of people who might be so described ) but only on the validity of the relationship between the description " liberals " and the people who are acting as censors in the situation portrayed by this particular sentence . |
| 6 | Surrounding us on the beach were a large number of French civilians who had come down to the beach to look at the British Tommies . |
| 7 | This means people with As at A-level , first class or good 2.1 honours degree , first time passes in chartered accountancy , or graduates who 've held down a managerial post in industry and done an MBA . |
| 8 | Sarah herself knew many women who had moonlighted down the Bayswater Road to supplement meagre war pensions or National Assistance . |
| 9 | Bernard Mullan , one of the Fascists who had come down from the Chelsea headquarters , was under arrest . |
| 10 | The volatility of the Cusqueños coupled with the increasing pressure among them of poor campesinos who had come down from the Andes to seek a better life stood in ironic contrast to the rigid panoply of the state ; a situation brought home to me on Easter Sunday . |