Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has also got a good routine going with his putting now that his caddie , Fanny Sunesson , has stopped crouching down behind him before he putts to make sure he is aiming in the right direction . |
| 2 | But unfortunately it has fallen face down and Shelley 's " shattered visage " is now pressed to the " lone and level sands " . |
| 3 | Christian Braun , founder and director of the Overholland Foundation , has decided to close down the privately run museum on Museumsquare in Amsterdam . |
| 4 | You know the Khomeini has decided to step down … on the 11th of February . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Forman has decided to step down for personal reasons . |
| 6 | Hugh Jones has decided to step down from the chairman 's seat and the board has asked me if I 'd be willing to take over from him . ’ |
| 7 | Her constituents are lucky that she has decided to stay down here today . |
| 8 | Master of Ceremonies was Branch Chairman Malcolm Cork , Booth White , who has decided to stand down from the position . |
| 9 | Mrs Grant has decided to stand down from HIE , where she has been on the board since its inception two years ago , because of increasing work commitments . |
| 10 | Craig Brown , the under-21 team manager , has lost three of his current squad — Ferguson , Booth and Wright — to the full squad and has decided to stand down the rest of his Premier Division-based players at a time when league commitments in England have deprived him of Anglos . |
| 11 | During our set Bill has to play sitting down because he has broken two fingers stage-diving during a Lush set . |
| 12 | Today oversupply has helped bring down London rents to bargain basement levels . |
| 13 | The Church Bank has had to close down ! |
| 14 | Christian Lacroix , who gained notoriety as one of Paris 's most flamboyant dress designers in the 1980s , has had to tone down his gaudy garments to get them into department stores . |
| 15 | TOP has got bogged down in some areas . |
| 16 | Perhaps it has got bogged down in meetings and bureaucratic structures . |
| 17 | Er an and the the bloke who did it erm has got to go down as one of the ratbags of the year . |
| 18 | The Social Security Minister has promised to clamp down on benefit payments to New Age travellers . |
| 19 | The Social Security Minister has promised to clamp down on benefit payments to New Age travellers . |
| 20 | " He also buys and sells antiques for a living and he has promised to come down next week and have a proper look and then perhaps take a few things back to London to some man he knows who is an expert on Oriental China and objets d'art . " |
| 21 | By the same token , revisionist work has tended to play down the extent to which the intelligentsia set the goals and moulded the aspirations of peasants and workers . |
| 22 | There is one ray of hope — one member of the rescue team , himself an experienced caver , is a Casualty consultant from Suffolk who has volunteered to go down with the party to provide immediate medical assistance to the injured man . |
| 23 | The Dearing Report has become bogged down by that oldest of problems — money . |
| 24 | Now the Government has proposed to crack down on mileage allowances by taxing drivers who cover large distances . |
| 25 | He has proposed closing down one of the purification plants . |
| 26 | It is using its applications engineering resources by offering " a total engine package " to those of its customers whom recession has forced to run down their own development activities . |
| 27 | We have become busier and more efficient and the productive with each passing decade , and this has meant cutting down on the time spent on more mundane activities . |
| 28 | A man has admitted knocking down and killing a cyclist after drinking more than five pints of lager . |
| 29 | He says the force has started to crack down on rural violence and he blamed much of the trouble on young people drinking too much . |
| 30 | So far , Jansen has declined to stand down as a trustee . |