Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three weeks ago I was invited down to a meeting of water workers . |
| 2 | It 's obvious from the record that I was weighted down by an incredible burden I did n't know was mine or not. , |
| 3 | Suddenly I was struck down by an illness . |
| 4 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 5 | I was marched down to A block [ punishment ] . |
| 6 | I was taken down to the block [ punishment wing ] and they left me there for two days . |
| 7 | I was knocked down by a car and very nearly died . |
| 8 | Well I tried and then I was let down by the group . |
| 9 | Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue . |
| 10 | It was just as I was sitting down in the living room with my cup of coffee that I realised I 'd left my bag on the train . |
| 11 | I felt like a portly 60 year old man with a beard , and that I was shuffling down to the shops in my espadrilles like he does , with his horrible , ratty little dog . ’ |
| 12 | I was carried down to the ambulance and taken to a Kendal hospital . |
| 13 | I was tired , Thérèse said : so I was lying down for a bit . |
| 14 | I was frogmarched down to a single cell . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She was sinking down into a dream , aware only of the warmth of his body wrapped intimately against her own . |
| 17 | She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him . |
| 18 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
| 19 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
| 20 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Then , before she realised it , they had stopped and she was pushed down to the ground next to Sung , her back to him . |
| 23 | The woman suffered head injuries after she was mowed down by a car which mounted the pavement . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 26 | She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience with sick children . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And , as she walked innocently along a street to collect holiday snaps before returning to Lancashire , she was cut down by a bullet meant for a soldier . |
| 29 | Occasionally with him she had the sense she was going down through a hole in the floor . |
| 30 | She was held down on the bed whilst a variety of sexual acts were performed on her . |