Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] down in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would always be the partner with a wife and kids who got shot down in the line of duty , giving his bachelor buddy the chance poignantly to break the news to his loved ones . |
| 2 | And you could bet that the moment he 'd left they 'd sat down in the shade . |
| 3 | She 'd stayed down in the lane with a sullen look on her face . |
| 4 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |
| 5 | The minute we got settled down in the bottom of our Kalamachka , rocking as if we were inside a boat and ‘ talking about Baghdad ’ , we felt transported to another country . |
| 6 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 7 | Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel . |
| 8 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 9 | Inflation had slowed down in the United Kingdom to 5 per cent per year which produced a greater sense of economic security in terms of planning expenditures ahead . |
| 10 | 52 and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King , 47 T.L.R. 110 ) , the law had settled down in the form which I have indicated . |
| 11 | And then she had lain down in the dark , naked but for her flimsy shawl , the window open to let in the night , and waited . |