Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They remained in occupation until 16 October 1979 , immediately after the coup against Romero , when the factory warehouse was burnt down by the company and the women dislodged by armed members of the Treasury Police . |
| 2 | It was as if his mind was digging down through the years and bringing up pictures of past events … |
| 3 | When the last goodbyes and blessings on him had been murmured by the ladies , two dimmed lanterns were provided by Mrs Prynn the housekeeper , and the priest was led down to the kitchens and into the stables , under the floor of which a tunnel led steeply down to the shore . |
| 4 | Fourteen Mafia bosses have been arrested by Sicilian detectives after a woman 's Mafia Godfather lover was gunned down by the organisation . |
| 5 | Luke says that , in her case , the offering was laid down for the poor : |
| 6 | Swinburn was knocked down in a late night incident in Newmarket a month ago — and rates himself lucky to be riding again at all . |
| 7 | She received a fleeting impression of shaggy black hair and massive shoulders , then the tray was dumped down on the bedside table and she herself dumped in turn on the bed . |
| 8 | An enormous tin trunk was brought down from the attic , and systematically packed with everything needed for a month 's holiday . |
| 9 | The long thin mouth was pulled down at the corners like a tragic mask , the eyes were hooded , the shoulders hunched , head bent forward so that the man 's gaze seemed fixed on the surface of the table . |
| 10 | After this the heifer was knocked down to the plaintiff . |
| 11 | The ore was taken down to the lake , boated down to Nibthwaite , carted from thence to Penny Bridge or Greenodd , ( the latter was quite a busy small port ) from where it was shipped to the Macclesfield Co's. smelters at Liverpool . |
| 12 | The one on Parson 's Green was brought down by the ARP boys and packed tidily away , and then we were granted an AA gun , all to ourselves . |
| 13 | The plan was to go down to the south coast and camp . |
| 14 | The police reacted swiftly and a man who broke through their cordon was brought down by a rugby tackle and arrested . |
| 15 | A new federal law prohibiting the destruction of the US flag was struck down by the Supreme Court on June 11 . |
| 16 | She did n't fall heavily , but lightly , as if a piece of muslin was drifting down to the carpet . |
| 17 | At first , the rate of synthesis was slowed down by the poison , but after evolving through about nine test-tube transfer ‘ generations ’ , a new strain of RNA that was resistant to the poison had been selected . |
| 18 | ONE WAR WAS WINDing down for a while , not ending , because they never end . |
| 19 | His favourite relaxation was to toddle down to the quay and join the Royal Navy patrol boat for a day out . |
| 20 | The doctor was pledged to secrecy , and an iron curtain of security was rung down on the headquarters lest news of the new commander 's prostration further demoralise the men with their backs to the Meuse . |
| 21 | And when we went then after Christmas the shop was closed down for the |
| 22 | The rain was beating down on the windows , but Catherine stayed outside , although by now her hair and clothes were completely wet . |
| 23 | But the skies were darkening and the rain was pouring down over the fields . |
| 24 | The rain was coming down in a solid curtain . |
| 25 | It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand |
| 26 | It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand |
| 27 | Monday evening during dinner Bob hit and a huge tree was blown down across the power lines so we had no power and dinner was by candlelight . |
| 28 | The government 's response to mounting criticism was to crack down on the principal advocates of reform . |
| 29 | An initial scheme not to include the College of Art in the Polytechnic was turned down by the DES . |
| 30 | A cottonwool mist was floating down towards the lake from the ridge in the moonlight . |