Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] down in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The servants of Chaos were hunted down in the forests , and many wild and long-abandoned lands were re-settled . |
| 2 | British troops were bogged down in the Flanders quagmire . |
| 3 | It was a bitterly cold winter with thick snow ; both sides were bogged down in the Apennines from December to April . |
| 4 | Guidelines in this area were laid down in the case of Marshall v Harland & Wolff Ltd ( 1972 ) . |
| 5 | Nobly , you saved my life , and were struck down in the doing of it . |
| 6 | He had pictures in his office that he would show me of well-equipped armed bands that he said were taken down in the middle of Nicaragua . |
| 7 | The five Annamese , grunting with pain continued stumbling and staggering around the circle in grotesque imitation of bounding hares while the next group of victims were thrown down in the dirt . |
| 8 | Priscilla Savage remembers her mother telling her that she was placed down in the shade between two bundles of corn in an angle of the harvest field , and she was fed during the brief intervals her mother won from the gavelling . |
| 9 | But a gate was broken down in the frustration and many spectators , mostly from Cardiff , got in without paying . |
| 10 | This produced the perfect job , and a metal copy was made down in the tool-room . |
| 11 | Silver of this period is especially rare as much of it was melted down in the Revolution or to fund wars . |
| 12 | The unusual , possibly unique , method of election was laid down in the statutes by John Dakyn . |
| 13 | In such parishes as these the present field and hedge pattern was laid down in the year following the enclosure award , for the allotments would have been many and small . |
| 14 | The form of those prayers was laid down in the teaching of the rabbis , and we can glimpse it in the story of the Pharisee and the Publican . |
| 15 | It seemed that the detailed pattern of the embryo was laid down in the egg and became partitioned during cleavage , thus supporting Weissman 's claim . |
| 16 | This time he had shifted his ground ; not a word about the criticisms of Hailsham and Macmillan which we had agreed to delete , nor about untoward consequences in the Arab world : this time it was ‘ breach of confidential relationships ’ contrary to what was laid down in the Report of the Privy Council on Ministerial Memoirs . |
| 17 | A general election to a newly created 85-member National Assembly , whose creation was laid down in the Constitution promulgated in mid-1991 , was held on Dec. 20 . |
| 18 | Gallacher led the Newcastle protests which increased in their ferocity after he was pulled down in the box and denied the penalty that would level the score . |
| 19 | Williams rounded off with a 63rd-minute penalty after Gabbiadini was brought down in the area . |
| 20 | Steve Warwick scored the second goal and was brought down in the area , enabling Alton to get their third in a 3–1 home win . |
| 21 | Swindon swept forward after the break and were given a 50th-minute penalty when Martin Ling was brought down in the area . |
| 22 | The first bit of ‘ fighting ’ was after Wallace was brought down in the area for what I thought was a definate penalty . |
| 23 | But then Villa skipper Kevin Richardson was brought down in the area by Dean Austin after bursting through , and Staunton converted a 71st minute spot kick . |
| 24 | But then Villa skipper Kevin Richardson was brought down in the area by Dean Austin after bursting through , and Staunton converted a 71st minute spot kick . |
| 25 | Three minutes after the break , City know it was not going to be their day , they themselves were awarded a penalty when Frankie Machavellio was brought down in the area . |
| 26 | A fortnight before Anna and Peter were married , Anna 's father was knocked down in the Fulham Road at two in the morning by a van driving without headlights . |
| 27 | A 72-year-old man who was knocked down in the north of the city yesterday by a stolen car was today stable in the Royal Victoria Hospital . |
| 28 | A 184 year old cedar tree which was blown down in the January storms was the focus of an enterprising initiative in April at Claremont Landscape Garden , Surrey . |
| 29 | By 1657 he owned a large house in rural Wandsworth ; his London house , in Botolph Lane , was burned down in the fire of 1666 , when he moved to Fenchurch Street . |