Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was taken down to the block [ punishment wing ] and they left me there for two days . |
| 2 | Well I tried and then I was let down by the group . |
| 3 | I was carried down to the ambulance and taken to a Kendal hospital . |
| 4 | I was shoved down on the bed , the soldier left and the slattern bustled in with a small manchet loaf and a goblet of wine . |
| 5 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 6 | She supposed that she must face the fact that she was run down after the years of nursing and the final shock of Donald 's death . |
| 7 | Then , before she realised it , they had stopped and she was pushed down to the ground next to Sung , her back to him . |
| 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 | She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience with sick children . |
| 10 | Baroness Thatcher too is an Oxford graduate , but when moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her in the nineteen eighties , she was turned down by the same people , amid stormy controversy . |
| 11 | She was held down on the bed whilst a variety of sexual acts were performed on her . |
| 12 | She told teachers she was weighed down by the responsibilities of looking after her three younger sisters , including a nine-month-old baby . |
| 13 | So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ . |
| 14 | The next day we were taken down to the Brahmaputra river and loaded on to large river steamers . |
| 15 | and they got chaff from the farms you see , they were sent down before the fishing and they filled that and they lay on that . |
| 16 | They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish . |
| 17 | They were turned down by the Minister of Traffic and Waterways , Mrs Maij-Weggen , and it seemed that the idea , which was abandoned . |
| 18 | During the Second World War they were taken down to the dark stone vaults beneath the Half Moon Battery and buried to prevent them falling into enemy hands . |
| 19 | Most of the airfields were bomber units , with the exception of Debden in Essex , a Mustang base , where they were talked down by the American Ground Controllers after exercising around in fog for some time . |
| 20 | In 1602 they were thrown down from the walls of Geneva which they had assaulted by surprise . |
| 21 | Hoomey was splashing away on his third length when Nutty , getting bored , got up to fetch a toffee out of her blazer pocket where it was tossed down under the cupressus hedge . |
| 22 | It was played down by the band and manager Steve Harrison , who is paranoid about being seen to ‘ cash in ’ , ‘ manipulate ’ or any of those other snidey cracks that godhead success usually brings . |
| 23 | It was played down by the band and manager Steve Harrison , who is paranoid about being seen to ‘ cash in ’ , ‘ manipulate ’ or any of those other snidey cracks that godhead success usually brings . |
| 24 | Mike and I saw a a very young child being washed at a tube well , those guiding us round the site were very impressed by this , the child was rather perplexed and surprised as normally it was taken down to the river to be washed . |
| 25 | It was laid down by the Court of Appeal in the following case . |
| 26 | It was laid down in the 1991 Duopoly Review that it should not be allowed to offer entertainment until at least 1997 , when the situation will again be reviewed , and possibly for another three years after that . |
| 27 | Could this be your ring ? it was found down by the river with an ear-pick and a stiletto . |
| 28 | It was burned down on the second anniversary of the Falklands War . |
| 29 | in Poultry , City of London : it was burned down in the Great Fire of 1666 , and subsequently rebuilt . |
| 30 | Sceptics will no doubt dismiss Tito 's order ( even though it was issued down through the full chain of command ) and the assurances given pursuant to it by the Yugoslav negotiators at Bleiburg as mere window-dressing , and they may be right . |