Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And despite selling striker Teddy Sheringham to Tottenham last week for £2.1m , Forest are still busy searching the market for a replacement after being turned down in a £1.5m move for Arsenal 's Alan Smith . |
| 2 | Both these films are somewhat stagey , but contemporary comment could be combined with visual fantasy , as is revealed by Cecil Hepworth 's The Perils of Modern Motoring ( 1905 ) , in which a policeman is left in a dismembered state after being mowed down by a car . |
| 3 | After being shot down during the Battle of Britain , Stienhilper became a PoW and after a short period in a British camp was transferred to Canada . |
| 4 | Welcome back:An RAF war hero is about to return to Belgium to commemorate his escape from the Nazis after being shot down in a bomber . |
| 5 | Welcome back:An RAF war hero is about to return to Belgium to commemorate his escape from the Nazis after being shot down in a bomber . |
| 6 | Harry Moyle himself was rescued after being shot down in the sea ( by Spitfires , in fact ) and was rescued by a fishing boat from North Berwick . |
| 7 | Shop windows were smashed , three police officers were injured , and a fan died after being run down in the street . |
| 8 | LIVERPOOL whizz-kid Rob Jones could miss the early weeks of the new season after being struck down by a mystery virus . |
| 9 | After being talked down by a flying instructor last week , Mr Alan Anderson was said to be under sedation . |
| 10 | A woman died yesterday after being knocked down by a shoplifter fleeing with a £2.58 descaler . |
| 11 | A TOP sportswoman was awarded £230,981 damages in the High Court yesterday after being knocked down by a motorcycle . |
| 12 | He died in Florence 26 December 1924 , after being knocked down by a motor vehicle in London . |
| 13 | He died in Oxford 17 February 1921 after being knocked down by a cyclist . |
| 14 | DAVID Bell , 30 , of Arncliffe Hall , Ingleby Cross , near Stokesley , is fighting for his life with serious head injuries after being knocked down by a pick-up truck . |
| 15 | Kevin Tearney , 36 , of Ellenmere Court , Billingham , Cleveland is critically ill in Middlesbrough General Hospital , after being knocked down by a car in Marsh House Avenue , Billingham . |
| 16 | A six-year-old girl was in hospital last night after being knocked down by a car in Raby Road , Hartlepool . |
| 17 | Thomas Donnelly , 53 , of Central Avenue , Billingham , is in Middlesbrough General Hospital with serious head injuries after being knocked down by a vehicle near his home . |
| 18 | A PEDESTRIAN who died after being knocked down by a car in Aberdeen 's Market Street early yesterday morning was named as John Duncan , 45 , a fisherman , of Glenburn Road , Burra , Shetland . |
| 19 | The company now has 260 employees , up from 170 at its birth and has won Borland International Inc chief Phillipe Kahn over — ‘ Technically , it 's brilliant and Taligent is running much faster than I expected ; instead of being bogged down by the bureaucracies of its two large parents , Taligent seems to have taken the best of each company , ’ Kahn commented to the Journal , which notes that Wordperfect Corp and and Novell Inc are doing applications . |
| 20 | The association between reading skill and the use of the GPC route was confirmed by a negative correlation between the time taken to pronounce a list of words and the size of the pseudo-homophone impairment : the more skilled children gave a greater indication of being slowed down by the appearance of nonwords which sounded like words . |
| 21 | Tunnels are so emotive and the mind can conjure up thoughts of terror and the possibility of being run down in a dark tunnel . |
| 22 | More than two negative reasons for accepting a job can take a heavy toll on your resources of enthusiasm , particularly if you had the added disappointment of being turned down for the post you 'd really hoped for at the time . |
| 23 | IRAQ threatened yesterday to send fighters to patrol its border with Iran , but British and American officials said that would violate the terms of the Gulf war ceasefire and put the aircraft at risk of being shot down by the allies . |
| 24 | There was a load of hay being stacked in the barn behind the office and where the BMWs had been on Saturday , a Range Rover and an old Daimler were parked , their windows in the process of being sponged down by a boy who looked vaguely familiar . |
| 25 | She had said there was less chance of being burdened down with a large brood and less risk of losing the husband to another woman . |
| 26 | The Basel Convention on the transfer of toxic waste , whose primary purpose was to prevent uncontrolled dumping of toxic waste in third world countries , came into force in early May , against a background of warnings that it lacks sufficient political support , and is in danger of being watered down by a series of exemptions . |
| 27 | Clive expressed his distrust and fear of being let down by a very detached attitude in all his relationships . |
| 28 | I wish I could be doing something , moving , he thought , with an infantryman 's loathing of being pinned down in a known position . |
| 29 | She was hazily aware of being set down in a chair , then her head was pushed none too gently between her knees . |
| 30 | Are not those successful British companies sick and tired of being talked down by the doom-monger Labour party ? |