Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , we enjoyed that outing , er we had tea on the roof , which was all glass , never seen anything like it before and I sha n't see it again since it got burnt down anyway . |
| 2 | Father to son … cousins , uncles … it got handed down . |
| 3 | It involves cutting down the main trunk to encourage new growth from the edge of the stump . |
| 4 | THE body of a 26-year-old man who was apparently buried alive while trying to rescue one of his terriers when it became trapped down a hole , has been found on a Welsh mountainside . |
| 5 | I do n't think it needs to go down under the barrier act . |
| 6 | Erm that 's good but there 's an awful lot there , it needs breaking down a bit . |
| 7 | But now I think it needs writing down . |
| 8 | Peter Karsten , marketing director of Surfax , which brews the low-alcohol Clausthaler , comments : ‘ The number of products available has dropped from 70 to 50 and it needs to come down to about 20 . ’ |
| 9 | It needs to come down here . |
| 10 | Yeah right it ca n't get out it has to go down the pipe . |
| 11 | It has cut down our industries in comparison with those of our competitors to too great a degree . |
| 12 | " Our arguments are terribly electric , we come out of them sometimes with our heads as exhausted as an electric battery after it has run down . " |
| 13 | Finally , it has slowed down scientific research into complementary practices . |
| 14 | No one has ever given a satisfactory explanation of why Mr Ford said what he said — and it has gone down in the history books as just another Ford pratfall . |
| 15 | If it has gone down they are improving . |
| 16 | It has kept down sales of Melody Maker |
| 17 | ‘ I would n't put forward any conclusions in the first week of the scheme , it has to settle down . ’ |
| 18 | A few weeks ago I said there were 10 teams in contention , now I reckon it has whittled down to six . |
| 19 | STUNG by the jeers and booing which greeted last year 's avant garde production of The Gondoliers , the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company says it has toned down the designs for its new version of The Mikado — despite the presence of a Lord High Executioner in flourescent pink leggings and yellow platform shoes , writes James Delingpole , Arts Correspondent . |
| 20 | For a wood glue-to be effective it has to penetrate down the tubes for some distance so as to get hold of the undamaged wood . |
| 21 | It has outgrown the baby-clothes of Count and Duke and breeched itself in manhood , it has put down the dwarf and set up the man . ’ |
| 22 | It has come down to personalities and Julia is very disturbed by it all . |
| 23 | Moreover , if we explore the course of English Literature , if we consider from what source its stream has sprung , by what tributaries it has been fed , and with how rich and full current it has come down to us , we shall see that it has other advantages not to be found elsewhere . |
| 24 | It has come down and we shall ensure that it stays down . |
| 25 | It has come down from 52 per cent . |
| 26 | The structure of Liberal argument , both at the time and as it has come down to us in modern land law texts , is thus built upon two suppositions . |
| 27 | Whatever Aachen may have been in the past , it has settled down now to being a prosperous commercial town with few pretensions . |
| 28 | Over the years it has settled down to the equivalent of ‘ dinner for two ’ , thus about £60 in 1990 in Greenock . |
| 29 | In other areas Parliament has specifically provided that tax paid which was not lawfully due to be paid may be recovered and it has laid down the machinery and the conditions for repayment , including the payment of interest . |
| 30 | But if the authority 's decision has inflicted irreparable damage on the applicant — for example , if it has pulled down his or her house in pursuance of an invalid demolition order — the remedies of public law are going to be much less satisfactory for the applicant . |