Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] down [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Aerospace workers ' hopes of a revival were shot down yesterday with the news that 650 jobs are to be axed . |
| 2 | The survey added greatly to our knowledge of the glacial deposits , which were laid down close to the southern limit of ice advance during the Anglian Stage . |
| 3 | The weaving yarn was caught down randomly across the row , but in a different way on adjacent rows , and in such a way that the design was largely floats ( swatch 3 , card 3 ) . |
| 4 | I was let down lightly at the beginning , though . |
| 5 | We read that the meaning of the embellishment on metalwork ‘ can not be recaptured from the archaeological material ’ and it can not be interpreted from the ‘ surviving literature , which was written down long after the inception of the style ’ ( Wilson 1976a , p. 3 ) . |
| 6 | This sparked off two days of rioting , with widespread looting and burning : it was put down only after the declaration of martial law . |
| 7 | Now the suddenly released , accumulated weight of all those pent-up seconds was bearing down heavily on the unbraced stones . |