Example sentences of "have [verb] down the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While parental choice embodied in the Educational Reform Act has broken down the traditional secondary-feeder primary school catchment areas , for the vast number of secondary schools their associated primaries are unchanged . |
| 2 | So far he has tracked down the chemical 3-methyl-2-hexenoic acid . |
| 3 | Now that the Commission has turned down the unanimous decision of the Catering Sub-Committee to invite the London food commission to give advice on how healthy and nutritious the food in the Members ' and Strangers ' Cafeterias is , what will the Leader of the House do to improve the situation ? |
| 4 | She was blue when they carried her in , but it looks as though the stone has gone down the right way . ’ |
| 5 | North sat down beside him and whispered , ‘ Max has shut down the resupply of the pilots . ’ |
| 6 | There are clinics attached to all the university and large municipal hospitals , but the government has shut down the local clinics because they deny that there is any problem . |
| 7 | She 'd turned down the only chance she had had . |
| 8 | My mother could n't believe I 'd turned down the highest single accolade known to show business aside from This Is Your Life ( which I 've also managed to avoid by dint of a pact with the reclusive man with whom I share my digs ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Of course , you 'd have to track down the right person . ’ |
| 11 | But once you 've got there , you do n't have to play down the big moments , or play up the character scenes , because it 's all so perfectly balanced . ’ |
| 12 | They may have gone down the medium wave dial from 10.17 to 8.55 , but their new premises in Ludlow is more than a few steps up from the barn . |
| 13 | ‘ It is much to be regretted , that the owner of the Purse Crag should have cut down the beautiful trees , which served so wonderfully to enrich the prospects on this side of the water . |
| 14 | Parrish has acted before in the theatre though , landing a couple of solid psycho parts essentially not a lot different from the Fritz character — who changes his name to Eli and then Bud as he escapes across the country having gunned down the demonic rich bitch Twinkle ( one of Sean Young 's better performances ) . |
| 15 | And Joanna had sped down the outer stairway , crying and joyous at once . |
| 16 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 17 | Methodism had broken down the old geographical barriers so that now nearly all areas had their Nonconformists . |
| 18 | The youngster had fallen down the steep embankment on the Colchester side of the station , injuring her back and legs , and was unable to move . |
| 19 | Within days of the settlement Mass Observation reported widespread shame ‘ that we had let down the whole tradition of England 's pledges for honesty , fair play and resistance to threats . ’ |
| 20 | There were still old parts of Bucharest surviving despite the bulldozers of Ceausescu which had torn down the old to build huge concrete cubes . |
| 21 | , you had a built in , and on the left , they 've torn down the whole building . |
| 22 | Yeah , I mean , they 've torn down the whole building inside the big . |
| 23 | ‘ Boy ’ Mould had served in France with 1 Squadron in 1939/40 , where he had shot down the first German aircraft to be claimed by R.A.F. fighters over the Western Front ; he had over eight victories to his credit at this time . |
| 24 | Stephen had turned down the first set of plans out of hand . |
| 25 | Manager Trevor Francis confirmed yesterday that he had turned down the huge offer from Toulon . |
| 26 | Material things they had in plenty , and though they had moved to cheaper housing she could not actually remember feeling that they had moved down the social ladder at all . |
| 27 | It was reported on Aug. 1 that the Albanian government had closed down the Albanian State Bank 's foreign exchange department after losses totalling $170,000,000 were disclosed in the department 's foreign exchange trading since 1988 . |
| 28 | And anything , then national testing I 've got down the twenty four er , week thirty two to week thirty seven . |
| 29 | Edward had dropped the whole cargo of gifts by the time he had got down the twenty iron rungs of the ladder . |
| 30 | Five minutes later he had slithered down the sandy cliffs , a mug of tea slopping in each hand . |