Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were made to lie down on the floor in the back . |
| 2 | It seems that when they were made to lie down in the back of the truck and their hands were tied behind them , Katrine remembers there being rags underneath her . |
| 3 | After a fortnight we were told to go down to the airfield for a possible lift into Assam , but often refugees went in the morning but were back in the evening as the planes were so busy taking out wounded soldiers . |
| 4 | Their enemies drove them out arid they were forced to live down in the marshes of Kelfazin . |
| 5 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 6 | Meat Loaf came on to a volley of missiles and for one , beautiful moment , it seemed he was going to get down from the stage and beat some arsehole to death . |
| 7 | It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
| 8 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |
| 9 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |
| 10 | The morning sky was smudged yellow and grey with smoke and the heat was beginning to beat down on the fighting when Dulé gave a leg-up to one of his fellow fighters to scale the stockade . |
| 11 | The rigid structure of Tokugawa society was beginning to break down by the early nineteenth century . |
| 12 | all that has had to be replaced because that was starting to drip down into the hall , again ! |
| 13 | She very much doubted Madeleine would be prepared to give up the good time she was having to settle down in the country on Harry 's salary . |
| 14 | One cafe and clothesshop owner says he was forced to close down for the weekend . |