Example sentences of "broke down [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broke down while being photographed by his friends ? |
| 2 | Kendall , aged 43 , was City 's initial choice after Mel Machin had been sacked , but discussions broke down when the former Everton and Athletic Bilbao manager insisted on a release clause in his contract should he be approached by England . |
| 3 | Kendall , aged 43 , was City 's initial choice after Mel Machin had been sacked , but discussions broke down when the former Everton and Athletic Bilbao manager insisted on a release clause in his contract should he be approached by England . |
| 4 | However , these distinctions broke down when some specimens from Antarctica proved to be polymict but devoid of magnesium-rich howarditic pyroxenes . |
| 5 | She broke down when she told me that her little boy ( now six years old ) had asked every year to be taken to see Father Christmas in a nearby store , and every year she had had to disappoint him . |
| 6 | And , to complete his heartbreak , his car broke down when he was looking for his ninth win of the season at the Italian Grand Prix . |
| 7 | If Sartre 's argument depended on a logic of history as totalization but broke down when he could not combine the praxis of the individual with the general logic of ‘ totalization without a totalizer ’ except through the proliferation of his own writing , Althusser , by contrast , exploited the possibility of history as a ‘ process without a subject ’ , a history characterized by radical breaks and discontinuities , distinct from each other and not totalizing . |
| 8 | Attempts at mediation by officials , including Kirghizia 's Prime Minister Apas Dzhumagulov , broke down when a large group of Kirghiz arrived , whereupon the Uzbeks rushed the cordon of around 900 police officers keeping the rival nationalities apart . |
| 9 | Mr Lawson 's mistake was that when formal monetary targeting broke down because of the impossibility of finding any measure of money which bore an accurate relationship with nominal demand , he thought that he could use the exchange rate as an informal target . |
| 10 | Ultimately , they said , it broke down because it simply could not deliver the goods . |
| 11 | The third mechanism , that of the price agreement , upon which management placed much reliance in single-place working , also broke down because of the detailed breakdown of jobs . |
| 12 | Miss Rocco said Prince Philip was incapable of helping his sons when their marriages broke down because of his own austere upbringing . |
| 13 | Under Rufus , the alliance of king and archbishop had been broken because the king was unmanageable ; under Henry , it broke down because of Anselm 's loyalty to the papal decree of 1099 . |
| 14 | Two trial drillings produced results that attracted the interest of several US companies , but negotiations to exploit the well for commercial use broke down because they insisted on full control over the project , which the St Lucia government refused because it considered it to be a matter of national interest . |
| 15 | Mr Piedboeuf said : ‘ The worst damage was that our computers broke down because of the heavy load . |
| 16 | And I think it partly broke down because he was insufficiently ruthless in examining the question that he had asked . |
| 17 | Last night , Johanna 's father broke down as he revealed his daughter had mysteriously taken down her 50 Christmas cards from her bedroom wall only hours before disappearing . |
| 18 | She broke down as she surveyed the scene . |
| 19 | During questioning in court , which had to be shouted because of his deafness , Mr Lane broke down as he was asked to recall his memory of the robbery . |
| 20 | Rather than contend with the pain of being left , he ensured that relationships broke down if they were in danger of becoming important to him . |