Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [vb pp] down a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July FIS militants were reported to have burned down a divorced woman 's house " to purge her sins ' , resulting in the death of her three-year-old son . |
| 2 | The LTTE claimed to have shot down a Marchetti combat aircraft with a SAM 7 missile . |
| 3 | Polisario also claimed to have shot down a Moroccan Mirage F-1 fighter and to have succeeded in occupying a 25-km section of the Moroccan wall . |
| 4 | On Aug. 4 and 5 , in the week before UN staff were due to arrive in the territory to start preparing the January 1992 UN-supervised referendum [ see p. 38169 ] , Moroccan aircraft strafed the oasis of Tfariti in the north-east , near the Mauritanian border , while Polisario Front guerrillas claimed to have shot down a Moroccan aircraft . |
| 5 | I mean the street I lived once and er the police came to the party , it did get switched down a little bit , but er th the falling out after that for the next week , who rang the police and you |