Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] down [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we were lifted down through a trap door and laid on a mattress . |
| 2 | If you were to write down on a sheet of paper half a dozen simple statements of fact which were either true or false and then turn the questions face down , the pendulum will come up with which are which . ’ |
| 3 | Temperatures were measured down to a depth of 5 kilometres , where seasonal fluctuations have no effect . |
| 4 | ‘ Calcraft , and on another occasion Warnham , were invited down to a meeting in some tavern by the riverside where Mistress Rachel was waiting to talk to them . |
| 5 | A low table carried some tidily arranged journals and newspapers ; letters on the desk top were pinned down by a silver paper knife . |
| 6 | That August the three Maguire children died when they and their mother , Anne , were run down by a terrorist who had been shot by soldiers during an incident . |
| 7 | The tots were struck down by a superbug in the intensive care unit at the London hospital . |
| 8 | The Halflings were cut down to a man , and only a few Knights Panther escaped to warn the Emperor Sigismund of the impending approach of the Orc horde . |
| 9 | I have even dreamed as Marie Romanov ; a nightmare in which I and all my family were taken down into a cellar and shot . |
| 10 | A further three were put down by a vet . |
| 11 | However , if all the jobs a housewife does were put down in a job description people might think twice before saying this . |
| 12 | It was difficult to see exactly what she looked like , for she and Rupert were bending down over a table examining something together . |
| 13 | If for example the relations between Moslem populations in the United Kingdom , or between those populations and the non-Moslem community , were to break down as a result of the crisis in the Gulf , the implications for social cohesion public order and the peaceful coexistence of communities would be grave . |
| 14 | Two thousand mourners have attended the funeral of two young sisters from Middlesbrough who were knocked down by a car which went out of control . |
| 15 | If the LEA were to lay down as a condition of grant that we should have nothing to do with the University body , we should refuse the grant , and I do not see why Universities should not show the same loyalty to us . |
| 16 | They were settling down to a family Christmas at home when Belinda suddenly got very tired and her temperature soared . |
| 17 | Last night , two Catholics were gunned down at a shop on the Stewartstown Road , west Belfast and one is believed to have been seriously wounded . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 19 | I was marched down to A block [ punishment ] . |
| 20 | ONE WAR WAS WINDing down for a while , not ending , because they never end . |
| 21 | She was sinking down into a dream , aware only of the warmth of his body wrapped intimately against her own . |
| 22 | ‘ To say I am delighted is an understatement , ’ said Wallace , who was tracked down on a business trip to Moscow by a Garryowen club colleague . |
| 23 | TRUE Brit Wayne Batterbee was turned down for a job — because he has the Union Jack tattooed on his hand . |
| 24 | In 1944 our Lancaster of 57 Sqn , piloted by Flt Lt Bulcraig was shot down on a raid on Revigny , Northern France , killing the pilot , Bomb Aimer Fg Off Robson , Flt Eng Sgt Gale and W/Op Sgt Loughlin . |
| 25 | Bryn was shot down on a bombing raid in 1944 and the Belgian resistance smuggled him to safety in a coffin . |
| 26 | Shown here is the Queen Mother looking at the display relating to Frank Griffiths , the sole survivor of a Halifax that was shot down on a supply mission , and who was successfully hidden by the local Resistance . |
| 27 | The government attributed the crash to a technical fault , but foreign diplomats speculate that the helicopter was shot down by a Blowpipe . |
| 28 | After dropping out of RADA he joined the RAF in the war , was shot down in a bombing mission over Denmark and spent three years in a Polish PoW camp . |
| 29 | Stephen Wylie , a twenty-four year old businessman from Swindon was travelling on a minor road towards the village of Clanfield when he was flagged down by a man at the side of the road . |
| 30 | Five pirates were on their feet , and another man was lying down with a head wound . |