Sentence examples for tenant down from inspiring English sources

There's no principled difference between plopping a mobile home on the landlord's pad and plopping a tenant down forever in his landlord's apartment.

While not always the case, the lawyer could use various tactics to delay the case or to wear the tenant down in hopes of forcing him or her to give up.

There are now about 200 tenants, down from 950 in 2002, though today's tenants occupy far larger spaces.

Five hundred years ago, the English village of Doddershall was destroyed when Thomas Pigott, the rags to riches Lord of the Manor, evicted the tenants, pulled down their houses and turned the land over to sheep farming.

All the complaining has worn the tenants down.

"Vertex shows our retail and multifamily investors that there will be tenants down there," Mr. Buza said.

The building still has about 70 tenants, down considerably from 170 tenants several years ago, but because they are on short-term leases, almost all of them will have vacated the premises by the time renovation is completed this fall.

Tozzoli, who was in one of those pitch-black stairwells, guided groups of terrified tenants down to safety, counting out loud from 1 to 10 for the number of steps between each landing.

This has lifted the mood of the nation as well as the tenants of Downing Street.

"The only properties that haven't succeeded in this market," Mr. Tomasulo said, "are ones where the owners haven't made a commitment and are waiting for the big tenant to swoop down and take a large block of space".

Despite the subservience of most of the characters — the tenant farmers bowed down before the baron, children before the pastor, the village midwife before the doctor — assailants both known and unidentified viciously disrupt the social order in this austere and ambiguous whodunit.