Example sentences of "have been [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a deep , thick blood from the old oaks , still trickling slowly out here and there , as if the Trees might not have been cut down so very long since , or — and this was much worse — as if there were still vestiges of life in them . |
| 2 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 3 | Well there would be , yes , I would imagine or if they certainly would , they would of been in the past , they may have been cut down , but that would indicate to me that there were probably trees |
| 4 | That , that could have been , that could have been cut down . |
| 5 | I 'll give you one story that you may not think could have been cut down , but , the headline read , ‘ War Declared ’ . |
| 6 | FIL files referenced are available to LIFESPAN RDBI. e.g. It may be that the LIFESPAN process may not have been shut down . |
| 7 | The cameraman 's attention seems to wander at times , the water noise and sound of the wind blowing on the microphone could have been toned down before the commentary was added and the conversion to the PAL system has not enhanced the colour and focus . |
| 8 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 9 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 10 | The universe as a whole would have continued expanding and cooling , but in regions that were slightly denser than average , the expansion would have been slowed down by the extra gravitational attraction . |
| 11 | Although the ball might have been slipping down the leg side , Taylor was adjudged lbw by umpire Tony Crafter , who was officiated in his 33rd Test , breaking Bob Crockett 's previous Australian record . |
| 12 | If this had not happened nothing could have stopped him and the whole party would have been dragged down after him . |
| 13 | This still lovely riverine landscape must have been settling down from its major reshaping when William Morris bought Kelmscott Manor in 1871 . |
| 14 | I was turning to people I did n't know that well and confiding in them , and I could have been led down any garden path . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He reckoned he should have been legless after his booze-up at a nightclub and insisted that the ale must have been watered down . |
| 17 | Among their justifications for the present move , Sotheby 's have stated that the average price of a lot sold at Sotheby 's is £1,000 which will result in an extra £50 on the bill ; that this is the first rise in the buyer 's premium since 1975 ; and that the alternative would have been to close down a number of the company 's European offices . |
| 18 | At first the new mountains must have been worn down with great rapidity to produce the vast quantities of Neogene conglomerates . |
| 19 | By then , firms ' high inventories will have been run down and will need replenishing , the argument goes . |
| 20 | And I was , I du n no , but erm , I must have been run down as well and it 's a bit like going |
| 21 | Thus twenty tons of explosives could have been rained down on the Voie Sacrée each day , not to mention demoralising night attacks . |
| 22 | Matata poled gracefully ; he could have been punting down the Cam as his pole pushed blue and white water lilies aside . |
| 23 | Yeah so , there 's a bit more , more could have been written down on that . |
| 24 | If he had , my furniture would have been out on the street by now and Springsteen and I would have been queuing down the night shelter . |
| 25 | The page numbers of relevant sections should have been noted down together with the names of other potentially useful books and articles which the author has written . |
| 26 | As the tank 's filtration should have been turned down ( or removed in the case of strong power filters ) the base of the tank can be occasionally cleaned using airline to syphon out any mulm or other residue . |
| 27 | After all , at this end of the market where incomes are low and where applicants for credit may well have been turned down by other types of lender , lenders may feel that they have to discriminate particularly carefully to be sure of recovering their money . |
| 28 | That in fact we were looking at almost two months ' work erm for project engineering , when in fact that scheme would have been condensed down into project engineering . |
| 29 | The plane might have been forced down by fighters or other enemy action , or had to land for some other reason , and we do n't know whether the men were able to get away all right or not . |
| 30 | Under the new Dangerous Dogs Act , Cleo could have been put down , but the court accepted her owner 's plea that she had been deliberately and maliciously let out of a shed , and set a new precedent by allowing the dog to go back to her family . |