Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no accidents unless you count ‘ Survival ’ wildlife cameraman Dieter Plage being run down by an enraged tusker who passed right over him as he lay on the ground . |
| 2 | The acolyte Rizla is struck down by a handbag . ) |
| 3 | There is a strong thriller element to the novel , particularly in the last part , in which Piero is tracked down by the agents of what is portrayed as something close to a police or military state in the underground corridors of the prison-like block of flats where Charles lives and the fugitive has been hiding . |
| 4 | Well , United started in fine style as early as the twentieth second ; Martin Foyle was brought down on the edge of the penalty area and Paul Simpson 's free kick was headed away for a corner . |
| 5 | It was here in 1911 , for instance , that the ruthless , reforming Russian First Minister Peter Stolypin was gunned down by a Jewish police agent in full view of the Tsar , at a gala opera night . |
| 6 | Many medieval millers paid their rent to the lord of the manor in eels ; and when the water-mill in the centre of Stafford was pulled down after the last war , the laconic miller expressed as his only regret : ‘ I shall miss the eels . ’ |
| 7 | The following morning Richard was taken down to the treatment room and given his first induction of air . |
| 8 | Mrs Wright was sitting down on the bank , the gun across her knees . |
| 9 | John Fillon-Payoux was knocked down by a car . |
| 10 | In 1944 our Lancaster of 57 Sqn , piloted by Flt Lt Bulcraig was shot down on a raid on Revigny , Northern France , killing the pilot , Bomb Aimer Fg Off Robson , Flt Eng Sgt Gale and W/Op Sgt Loughlin . |
| 11 | The horsemen of Ellyrion were pulled down by the foul beasts of Chaos . |
| 12 | Alan was sitting down at the end of the lawn , his back to the house ‘ so you do n't distract me ’ , finishing off some work for Monday . |
| 13 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 14 | Slowly , Aenarion was drawn down into the daemon 's innards . |
| 15 | It was difficult to see exactly what she looked like , for she and Rupert were bending down over a table examining something together . |
| 16 | Three minutes after the break , City know it was not going to be their day , they themselves were awarded a penalty when Frankie Machavellio was brought down in the area . |
| 17 | Outside , Baker Street was closed down for the weekend except for the Barracuda Club , which had taken over from the original School Dinners restaurant after it moved across the road to usurp the No. 34 Wine Bar . |
| 18 | TRUE Brit Wayne Batterbee was turned down for a job — because he has the Union Jack tattooed on his hand . |
| 19 | Their own staff had become acutely discontented — they were understaffed and overworked , and after the hype was all over Oxford DHSS was closed down by a strike lasting two months against understaffing . |
| 20 | Bryn was shot down on a bombing raid in 1944 and the Belgian resistance smuggled him to safety in a coffin . |
| 21 | If the LEA were to lay down as a condition of grant that we should have nothing to do with the University body , we should refuse the grant , and I do not see why Universities should not show the same loyalty to us . |
| 22 | The Triptych of the Descent from the Cross shows Christ being taken down from the cross on the central panel . |
| 23 | Well Craig 's going down to the local . |
| 24 | The horseman was , in fact , one of Miles ' Cheyenne scouts , and Looking Glass was cut down by a sharpshooter 's bullet ; the only warrior to die after the opening battle . |
| 25 | Dawn handed her a syringe filled with heart stimulant and soon Sandy was settled down in a warm recovery cage . |
| 26 | Hendrie was brought down by a clumsy Kevin Jobling challenge just inside the area . |
| 27 | The seven which are relevant to Christ 's manhood are : belief in the Incarnation and Virgin birth ; that in Jesus God and man are united , begotten by God , born of Mary ; belief in " Cristes passion " that after Christ was taken down from the cross dead ( the deposition ) , he liberated those believers subject to death before he was born , a process known as the Harrowing of Hell ; that though he suffered mortality , he rose from the dead through the strength of God , and made this possible for all men ; that he ascended into heaven and was crowned higher than the angels ; that he will come at the end of time to judge the world and this will be the end of the era of redemption : These two sets of seven points about the Godhead and Christ delineate beliefs about the nature of life subject to a process of sickness and death but also filled with the potential for healing realised definitively in the life of Christ . |
| 28 | Anne is sitting down at the piano , unfolding her spectacles , smoothing the music in front of her . |
| 29 | As Roberto was coming down from the top of his back-swing , the spectators leaned forward on to the fencing causing a crack like thunder . |
| 30 | Like John , Alan Wardle was knocked down as a small child . |