Example sentences of "it be [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or had it been shot down over the Channel ? |
| 2 | But falling pupil numbers at Soudley Primary School could lead to it being shut down within the next few years . |
| 3 | It 's to sit down with the practice manager and say right tell me about these businesses . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's kept down to an absolute bare minimum . |
| 5 | And you can see it 's running down from the bottom , the pressure in n it you see ? |
| 6 | In others , such as the strongyloids , it is large , and opens into a buccal capsule , which may contain teeth ; such parasites , when feeding , draw a plug of mucosa into the buccal capsule ( Fig.3 ) , where it is broken down by the action of enzymes which are secreted into the capsule from adjacent glands . |
| 7 | Some experienced foilers hold onto the spar end of a Flexifoil , shaking it while nearly vertical then when air-filled , it is brought down to the horizontal for the assisted launch . |
| 8 | The pressure exerted on that front foot when it is brought down in the bowling action is something like 10 times the bodyweight . |
| 9 | Suck all the air out from under the plastic so it is forced down over the wooden former . |
| 10 | Bret , more determined than ever to get to Earth to warn the authorities that Chen is a traitor ( he has Marc Cory 's tape ) , has to work with Steven on some rapid repairs to the space vessel when it is forced down onto the prison planet Desperus . |
| 11 | The steady release and peak indicates the best way to use this manure : if it is put down at the end of March , the peak comes towards the end of June . |
| 12 | Not that it was slow down in the sense of Do n't go too fast physically . |
| 13 | Hoomey was splashing away on his third length when Nutty , getting bored , got up to fetch a toffee out of her blazer pocket where it was tossed down under the cupressus hedge . |
| 14 | It was played down by the band and manager Steve Harrison , who is paranoid about being seen to ‘ cash in ’ , ‘ manipulate ’ or any of those other snidey cracks that godhead success usually brings . |
| 15 | It was played down by the band and manager Steve Harrison , who is paranoid about being seen to ‘ cash in ’ , ‘ manipulate ’ or any of those other snidey cracks that godhead success usually brings . |
| 16 | The original tree survived until 1911 , when it was blown down in a storm . |
| 17 | Originally intended to have taken the form of a binding Convention , it was watered down to a " Statement " as a result of concerted lobbying by a number of timber-exporting countries , led by Malaysia , which viewed it as an attack on sovereignty , and accused northern countries of hypocrisy , given the fact that they had already destroyed all but a tiny fraction of their own virgin forests . |
| 18 | Mike and I saw a a very young child being washed at a tube well , those guiding us round the site were very impressed by this , the child was rather perplexed and surprised as normally it was taken down to the river to be washed . |
| 19 | It was laid down by a judgement of the King 's Court in 1205 that ‘ No one ought or is able to divide up or in any way to alienate a serjeanty ’ . |
| 20 | It was laid down by the Court of Appeal in the following case . |
| 21 | It was laid down in the 1991 Duopoly Review that it should not be allowed to offer entertainment until at least 1997 , when the situation will again be reviewed , and possibly for another three years after that . |
| 22 | Could this be your ring ? it was found down by the river with an ear-pick and a stiletto . |
| 23 | It was burned down on the second anniversary of the Falklands War . |
| 24 | in Poultry , City of London : it was burned down in the Great Fire of 1666 , and subsequently rebuilt . |
| 25 | Sceptics will no doubt dismiss Tito 's order ( even though it was issued down through the full chain of command ) and the assurances given pursuant to it by the Yugoslav negotiators at Bleiburg as mere window-dressing , and they may be right . |
| 26 | The Ambrose Orchestra played at the Mayfair Hotel until it was closed down by an unexploded bomb . |
| 27 | The cassock had a thin hood , held in place over the attendant 's head and face by what looked like the brim from an old and worn red hat ; it was squeezed down over the attendant 's head , the top of the hood showing through where the hat 's crown should have been . |
| 28 | Silver of this period is especially rare as much of it was melted down in the Revolution or to fund wars . |