Example sentences of "had [vb pp] down in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 2 | Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel . |
| 3 | My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps , where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen , leaving him miles to walk back to any road . |
| 4 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 5 | Inflation had slowed down in the United Kingdom to 5 per cent per year which produced a greater sense of economic security in terms of planning expenditures ahead . |
| 6 | 52 and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King , 47 T.L.R. 110 ) , the law had settled down in the form which I have indicated . |
| 7 | But the old pub had burnt down in the 1960s and been replaced by a more profitable and thrusting enterprise . |
| 8 | Widespread evidence indicated that it had burnt down in the later second century . |
| 9 | But she was gone , she had run down in the thick tree shadows to a side street , was down that and in the busy main street within sixty seconds after she had thrown the stone . |
| 10 | I thought the TV aerial had blown down in the strong winds . |
| 11 | And then she had lain down in the dark , naked but for her flimsy shawl , the window open to let in the night , and waited . |