Example sentences of "be [vb pp] down by a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SECOND appeal against East Hampshire District Council 's refusal to allow permission for a house on land at Old School House , Crabtree Lane , Headley has been turned down by a government inspector . |
| 2 | It is the propeller salvaged from a Royal Navy Coastal Airship which is believed to have been shot down by a U-Boat in July 1918 whilst operating from Longside Airship Station . |
| 3 | So if you 're knocked down by a bus , that does n't count . |
| 4 | Miyazawa had taken over from Toshiki Kaifu only on Nov. 5 , 1991 , after the Kaifu administration had been brought down by a string of financial corruption cases [ see pp. 38558-59 ] . |
| 5 | Lindsey used Bravo Golf from the time of its purchase in 1967 until 1973 as the family transport , that was until he had a visit from the Airshow Coordinator at RAF Finningley in 1973 who asked him if he would like to be shot down by a Spitfire and Hurricane at the Battle of Britain airshow that year ! |
| 6 | She ought to have been struck down by a thunderbolt , Ronni thought later . |
| 7 | A good woman , someone had explained to him on the road from Brighouse , the widow of Radical Jack Thackray , something of a local hero , who had been cut down by a sabre at St Peter 's Fields in Manchester , asking for rather less in the way of electoral reform than Daniel himself was demanding now . |
| 8 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |
| 9 | I think I must have been knocked down by a car . ’ |
| 10 | Someone came to tell her that her twelve-year-old son Paul had been knocked down by a car on the way home from a friend 's house and taken to the local hospital . |
| 11 | Two traffic wardens have been knocked down by a car after questioning the driver about a photocopied tax disc . |
| 12 | ‘ Are you all right ? ’ they asked , like people do when somebody 's been knocked down by a bus and lying stretched out in the road . |
| 13 | Both these films are somewhat stagey , but contemporary comment could be combined with visual fantasy , as is revealed by Cecil Hepworth 's The Perils of Modern Motoring ( 1905 ) , in which a policeman is left in a dismembered state after being mowed down by a car . |
| 14 | There was a load of hay being stacked in the barn behind the office and where the BMWs had been on Saturday , a Range Rover and an old Daimler were parked , their windows in the process of being sponged down by a boy who looked vaguely familiar . |
| 15 | A low table carried some tidily arranged journals and newspapers ; letters on the desk top were pinned down by a silver paper knife . |
| 16 | LIVERPOOL whizz-kid Rob Jones could miss the early weeks of the new season after being struck down by a mystery virus . |
| 17 | That August the three Maguire children died when they and their mother , Anne , were run down by a terrorist who had been shot by soldiers during an incident . |
| 18 | The tots were struck down by a superbug in the intensive care unit at the London hospital . |
| 19 | He died in Oxford 17 February 1921 after being knocked down by a cyclist . |
| 20 | A woman died yesterday after being knocked down by a shoplifter fleeing with a £2.58 descaler . |
| 21 | DAVID Bell , 30 , of Arncliffe Hall , Ingleby Cross , near Stokesley , is fighting for his life with serious head injuries after being knocked down by a pick-up truck . |
| 22 | Thomas Donnelly , 53 , of Central Avenue , Billingham , is in Middlesbrough General Hospital with serious head injuries after being knocked down by a vehicle near his home . |
| 23 | A TOP sportswoman was awarded £230,981 damages in the High Court yesterday after being knocked down by a motorcycle . |
| 24 | Kevin Tearney , 36 , of Ellenmere Court , Billingham , Cleveland is critically ill in Middlesbrough General Hospital , after being knocked down by a car in Marsh House Avenue , Billingham . |
| 25 | A six-year-old girl was in hospital last night after being knocked down by a car in Raby Road , Hartlepool . |
| 26 | A PEDESTRIAN who died after being knocked down by a car in Aberdeen 's Market Street early yesterday morning was named as John Duncan , 45 , a fisherman , of Glenburn Road , Burra , Shetland . |
| 27 | Brenda Sisterson , 45 , of Ingleside Road , North Shields , died in hospital at the weekend after being knocked down by a bus as she crossed John Dobson Street in Newcastle city centre . |
| 28 | He died in Florence 26 December 1924 , after being knocked down by a motor vehicle in London . |
| 29 | A further three were put down by a vet . |
| 30 | Two thousand mourners have attended the funeral of two young sisters from Middlesbrough who were knocked down by a car which went out of control . |