Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] down for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was tired , Thérèse said : so I was lying down for a bit . |
| 2 | Clearly suffering from the after-effects of a hip injury , she was knocked down for a koka — just three points — by the Soviet Elena Petrova , but it was enough to wipe out her hopes of a third consecutive world title . |
| 3 | On this occasion , everything was shut down for the night but in the morning when the armourers were about to start work , something went wrong . |
| 4 | At dusk , passing through the countryside , everything was slowing down for the night . |
| 5 | He was turned down for an insurance policy on the grounds that he was too old . |
| 6 | I recall my own final visit to the farm where he was allowed down for an hour and where the flame was rekindled for that period sufficiently for us to forget his illness and think only that the old Nye had been restored . |