Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [vb past] down the " in BNC.

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1 The bright light — this was what had struck them first — issued from an old street lamp , leaning at a crazy angle , rather suggesting an amateur production of Tales of Hoffmann , fitted , in place of glass , with sheets of mauve plastic , and trailing a long cable which disappeared down the companion .
2 The financial crisis which brought down the Labour government caused a rapid increase in the cost of unemployment assistance , an increase which pre-Keynesian economic theory held to be highly undesirable .
3 To hear some people talk , you would think such things are all in a jumbled undifferentiated past , much as the Louis XIV 's palace of Versailles with its real hall of mirrors now also houses Jacques-Louis David 's massive celebrations of Napoleon and of the revolution which brought down the Bourbons .
4 The FMS was active in the protest movement which brought down the Lemus regime ( 1956–60 ) but , in common with many other groups , it became progressively disillusioned by the perpetual electoral frauds .
5 I did n't look down the footpath which led to the buttercup fields where Dotty Harmer lived , for they were there no more , and I ignored the traffic which came down the New Yatt Road .
6 It had been known at the time of his appointment that Miyazawa and members of his Cabinet had been implicated , in varying degrees , in the Recruit-Cosmos share scandal which brought down the Takeshita administration in 1989 [ see pp. 36463-64 ; 36589 ] .
7 The first FMLN announcement stated that one of the advisers had died instantly and the others within minutes from their injuries ; however , a further statement on Jan. 9 noted that two members of the unit which brought down the helicopter had been arrested on charges of murdering wounded prisoners of war , and that they would be dealt with according to " war justice " if found guilty .
8 Their arguments were deliberately couched in language which played down the revolutionary implications of the legislation and was designed to convince doubters that no changes of any real significance were taking place .
9 ( His fecklessness was on an appealingly grand scale : when he was made a yeoman of the guard , responsible for fire-fighting equipment , his negligence permitted the fire which burnt down the Houses of Parliament ) .
10 short winter days , with stock outside and bad weather which slowed down the feeding process ;
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