Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] down in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought she must be coming down in a moment . |
| 2 | If you try to speak to any body you will be ignored , if you get in the way you 'll be knocked down in the wild scramble to get goods away to Paris , London , Brussels , and all the great centres of northern and eastern France . |
| 3 | No one , for example , supposes that the knowledge that belongs to a good cook is confined to what is or may be written down in the cookery book . |
| 4 | When she spoke to the old maid , she told her that she would be coming down in the morning . |
| 5 | Thus , a whole range of decisions would not be left merely to the instinct of the doctor , good though he or she may be , but would be set down in a form which is at the same time authoritative , yet flexible and able to change if circumstances demand . |
| 6 | Yes , of course most people are quite happy for us to write the cards , in which case the appropriate message will be noted down in the book . |
| 7 | There seems every possibility that Trev Proby will be sent down in the near future . |
| 8 | A dish in any Pacific city east of the longitude of Mexico City — Lima , say , or Quito , or Santiago — will be cranked down in the direction of an equally low point on the eastern horizon — for just as American naval vessels involved in exercises off the Pacific coasts of Peru , Ecuador or Chile are regarded as being part of the US Atlantic Fleet , so communicators , for reasons of pure geometry , think of these countries ' capital cities as part of the Atlantic communications network . |
| 9 | If she will take you , you will be set down in a bare heath , on a great stone , which is made of granite and is the gate to your adventure , though it will seem to have been fixed and unmoving since the making of the world . |
| 10 | The structure of the economy and society can be broken down in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes . |