Example sentences of "had [vb pp] down in " 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 | But the child protection system had broken down in this instance , not because of the excessive timidity or woolliness of social workers who missed the warning signs and failed to act , but because of their over confidence in medical diagnoses and their ready reliance on compulsory measures to remove the children . |
| 3 | Cripps denied that the books had been improperly kept , saying that an accounts clerk had been appointed to look after them after his own health had broken down in 1917 . |
| 4 | Something had broken down in them . |
| 5 | Peter would like it ; poor Peter , who had broken down in bed the night before , and wept that he had failed her , failed her as well as — but he could n't actually articulate that . |
| 6 | There had been reports on April 2 that a meeting to discuss the formation of a more representative government had broken down in disagreement between Crown Prince Saad and representatives of a coalition of merchant groups , Islamic parties and former members of parliament . |
| 7 | In an immediate response to the latest left-wing guerrilla offensive , the government on Sept. 5 ruled out the renewal of peace talks which had broken down in March [ see p. 38809 ] and were suspended indefinitely in May . |
| 8 | The prosecution claimed in its opening address that one of the men accused of the killing had broken down in front of his wife and confessed to the murder . |
| 9 | The decision had come down in favour of illusion : the President 's dream of triumphant new diplomacy and the hostages home . |
| 10 | Nevertheless Fraser McLuskey 's account of air crashes does suggest that the Maquis or the local French population in general would soon have known of planes which had come down in their territory , and that the Germans , when told of wrecks , did in fact bury the crews in identifiable graves . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 15 | By January , Soviet troops had cracked down in Lithuania , Soviet troop withdrawals from central Europe had ominously stopped . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Danny the youngest had settled down in his job as a lighterman and seemed to be popular with the local girls . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But the old pub had burnt down in the 1960s and been replaced by a more profitable and thrusting enterprise . |
| 20 | Widespread evidence indicated that it had burnt down in the later second century . |
| 21 | It was he whom Matthew had brought down in a flying tackle . |
| 22 | By the time he had rushed down in an elevator and emerged on the track , the other two medallists had received their medals — and the national anthem was being played without anybody on the gold medal podium . |
| 23 | Of his 8 previous Ulster supporters , 4 had gone down in defeat , I did not re-stand and 3 were marching under new orders which forbade them to give support as in the past . |
| 24 | Old Saul was the culprit , Old Saul had gone down in our history and my personal mythology as the Castraitor , but thanks to the little creatures who flew the creek I had him in my power now . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It had run down in rivulets here and there like tears . |
| 27 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 28 | I thought the TV aerial had blown down in the strong winds . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Drawing directly on his own recent experiences as a Parliamentary reporter for the Chronicle , CD humorously describes scenes and personalities in the House of Commons ( in 1835 sitting in temporary accommodation on the site of the old Palace of Westminster which had burned down in 1834 ) , and in Bellamy 's , the MPs ' coffee and chop house adjoining the Palace , including Nicholas , the imperturbable maitre d'hôtel at Bellamy 's . |