Example sentences of "[been] [verb] down over the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 More recently , it was impossible to forget how he personally had been let down over the reserves pledged for the first phase at Verdun .
2 Or had it been shot down over the Channel ?
3 But long ago , in 1946 , the questing and the questioning had become almost unbearable , and I knew that to keep my sanity I must force myself to an arbitrary conclusion : I would believe the least terrible of terrible possibilities — that the plane had been shot down over the Channel by enemy action .
4 It is this tradition which I suspect has been handed down over the generations in particular families , but which is dying out .
5 A long , narrow band of cloud has been moving down over the country and will continue to do so throughout the night before it moves away eastwards tomorrow , being replaced by clear skies to the west .
6 The geostationary communications satellites placed high above the Pacific to link the banking and trading centres of South-East Asia , Japan and Australasia with those of North America preside over a ‘ window ’ of the planetary territory of geometrically fixed size — rather as if a cone , a dunce 's cap , the height of which is equivalent to the altitude necessary for a satellite 's geostationary orbit , had been set down over the ocean .
7 The inquiry has been scaled down over the year as leads have fizzled out .
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