Example sentences of "down and [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked in interviews about his parents , Crawford tells the story of his RAF sergeant-pilot father who was shot down and killed during the Second World War , before his birth . |
| 2 | There were brown bears here as recently as the 10th century , and the last wolf was hunted down and killed in the 18th century . |
| 3 | With a smile he put the rifle down and reached for the next in the stack at his side . |
| 4 | It was n't as if I even wanted to sit down and write in the first place . |
| 5 | The Special Needs Unit , attached to the College of Further Education , is actually decking their Special Needs Unit out as a rain forest , both before and after , so there 's the rainforest in all its glory , and then the rainforest after it 's been chopped down and destroyed in the next room , so the Special Needs Unit are really enjoying that . |
| 6 | Jerking the trigger instead of squeezing it with a steady pressure , meant the gun muzzle being pulled slightly down and left for the first shot . |