Example sentences of "had been [verb] down the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parole was not a new idea , having existed in parts of the United States since early in the twentieth century , and had been canvassed down the years . |
| 2 | When our mam died — our dad had been killed down the pit long before — he took me in and brought me up . |
| 3 | The Pakistan skipper had been drawn down the pitch by Tufnell 's flight . |
| 4 | He did not explain why the CIA had waited until December 1990 , to draw this conclusion when the ‘ proof had been available for at least a year , nor did he explain why no advance warning based on this report , reliable or not , had been passed down the line to those responsible for airline security . |
| 5 | Parore had been heading down the leg side — too far , ex-Central Districts keeper Jack Vernon assured me later — and had to change direction . |