Example sentences of "[verb] been shot down " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time an Iraqi plane has been shot down in the southern no-fly zone , set up to prevent Saddam attacking the Shi'ites . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's A Game ’ , ‘ Money Honey ’ , ‘ Shang A Lang ’ and , um , a lot of padding from the Rollers ' post ‘ 77 career after they 'd been shot down in flames , plucked , shucked , gutted , roasted , eaten , shat out and buggered in the back of the neck and then locked in the attic with Mad Auntie Maude from Nottingham for two weeks by the ultimate manufactured band , the Sex Pistols . |
| 3 | The men , all of whom had been captured after having been shot down over enemy territory , gave their names , sent greetings to their families and made statements critical of the war . |
| 4 | Only three of Armenia 's fleet of seven helicopters remained , the rest having been shot down by Azerbaijani forces claiming that they were used for military purposes . |
| 5 | It is the propeller salvaged from a Royal Navy Coastal Airship which is believed to have been shot down by a U-Boat in July 1918 whilst operating from Longside Airship Station . |
| 6 | Lieutenant Stapleton suddenly realized with a shock of fear that he was lucky not to have been shot down by one of these tattered lunatics . |
| 7 | Large numbers of the birds are believed to have been shot down as they crossed Afghanistan and Pakistan en route to their summer breeding grounds along the River Ob , in eastern Russia . |
| 8 | But long ago , in 1946 , the questing and the questioning had become almost unbearable , and I knew that to keep my sanity I must force myself to an arbitrary conclusion : I would believe the least terrible of terrible possibilities — that the plane had been shot down over the Channel by enemy action . |
| 9 | For the first time since I had been shot down I was alone . |
| 10 | But these people had been shot down some months ago and as the Feldwebel had told me that this was only a transit camp I knew that I was not likely to meet them here . |
| 11 | All this had been done and was being done every day all over Europe by the people whom I had found so pleasant and human ever since I had been shot down . |
| 12 | He had been shot down in September , 194O . |
| 13 | Some of the men who came in late in the war had not joined up until after the older prisoners had been shot down . |
| 14 | Later there would be the questions and answers about the war , the old familiar stories of the way in which people had been shot down . |
| 15 | It seems fairly certain that MacLachlan had been shot down by Oblt . |
| 16 | If so , then it was a case of sweet revenge for Whittingham , who had been shot down by this unit over England during 1940 ! |
| 17 | Walter Preis 's aircraft ( J9 +JK ) and that of Lt. Leopold Jarosch ( J9+BH ) had been shot down by fighters , while one Ju87R ( J9+YL ) of 9/St.G 1 flown by Stfw . |
| 18 | Suddenly he heard a clattering noise and his cockpit filled with smoke , the controls going dead — he had been shot down by Oblt . |
| 19 | The pilot survived the crash , but further investigation found that a month later he had been shot down by enemy fighters 12 miles off Etaples , Northern France , again flying a Tomahawk . |
| 20 | Some had been shot down singly , quite near the edge of the plateau , presumably while advancing . |
| 21 | He was wearing the tunic in which he had been shot down . |
| 22 | Police claimed that they were forced to open fire when the crowd attacked them , whereas the ANC said that several of its supporters , grouped to defend themselves from a pro-Inkatha attack , had been shot down by the police . |
| 23 | Relations between Georgia and Russia deteriorated sharply following Russian reports that a Russian Mi-8T helicopter had been shot down on Dec. 14 , on its way back from delivering humanitarian aid to the town of Tkvarcheli in the Abkhazia autonomous region . |
| 24 | Those particular Victorian values had been shot down about 1983 . |