Example sentences of "been [vb pp] down the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 2 | ‘ I have always felt that it is a crying shame that the works of possibly the greatest writer of all time , William Shakespeare , have — purely for examination purposes — been pushed down the throats of school children . |
| 3 | He has started just two matches so far , having been pushed down the pecking order by the arrival of £2 million David Rocastle from Arsenal . |
| 4 | A KPMG spokesman said : " The environment has been pushed down the agenda of many private companies by other factors such as the recession and exchange rates . |
| 5 | The Pakistan skipper had been drawn down the pitch by Tufnell 's flight . |
| 6 | Technological developments have been used down the ages to fragment jobs and de-skill workers , they claim . |
| 7 | Close inspection reveals that a strip of reverse grain timber has been laid down the centre in order to add strength — another old-fashioned idea and a good one , too . |
| 8 | The railway station has been re-sited down the line to make room for the town 's bypass . |
| 9 | The ragazza should never have been put down the well , that was the fault of her husband who did n't fully understand the house and was ignorant of its ways . |
| 10 | He did not explain why the CIA had waited until December 1990 , to draw this conclusion when the ‘ proof had been available for at least a year , nor did he explain why no advance warning based on this report , reliable or not , had been passed down the line to those responsible for airline security . |
| 11 | Finally , long after her ‘ spot ’ had been and gone , Deborah arrived , hot and flustered having been shunted down the Thames from London Weekend on a boat with a troupe of belly dancers all making last minute adjustments to their costumes , or lack of them . |
| 12 | As this representation is difficult for the draughtsman to interpret , mesh lines have been inserted down the front and side view axis ( to give Figure 6.23 ) . |
| 13 | When our mam died — our dad had been killed down the pit long before — he took me in and brought me up . |
| 14 | She scraped them carefully and put them in a steel pan , covering them with the bottled still water in which they would be boiled , thereby retaining the vitamin C which would otherwise have been poured down the sink . |
| 15 | Decision taking has been delegated down the management structure : sales and support staff have more responsibility and freedom to respond to customer needs . |
| 16 | Parole was not a new idea , having existed in parts of the United States since early in the twentieth century , and had been canvassed down the years . |