Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] down on the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The government 's response to mounting criticism was to crack down on the principal advocates of reform . |
2 | The court ruling was handed down on the 21st anniversary of the first day of the police siege of Red Army commandos at a hotel on Mount Asama , north of Tokyo . |
3 | The judge 's decision was handed down on the same day that Exxon announced that first-quarter profits for 1991 had leapt 75% over the same period last year , to $2.24 billion . |
4 | Then we fitted each tyre back on to the wheel which was clamped down on the tyring platform . |
5 | She put the tray she was carrying down on the wrought iron table . |
6 | It was burned down on the second anniversary of the Falklands War . |