Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The capital asset value of the land was high and farms were normally passed down within the family . |
| 2 | We were already worn down by the long night and another was almost unthinkable — our sleeping bags would be a frozen mass of down by evening . |
| 3 | The blackouts were already pulled down over the hall windows . |
| 4 | Heavy-eyed , yawning and bewildered men appeared in doorways , and were promptly cut down by the attackers . |
| 5 | Whether or not , as some allege , food supplies were deliberately run down by the authorities , by autumn there was plausible reason enough to deploy troops to urban and rural areas to assist in food distribution and ‘ relieve bottlenecks ’ . |
| 6 | It was dark and well stormy by the time I got to the Aurora Corona Rest Home and the residents were probably battened down for the night . |
| 7 | The results were later played down by the company . |
| 8 | These ghastly memorials were frequently laid down during the lifetime of the persons they were intended to commemorate , in order that they might constantly be reminded that they were but mortal . |
| 9 | Subsequently , the collars were fully turned down to the conventional collar of today , while the cravats were transformed into bow-ties . |
| 10 | For if all the parts were neatly laid down in the egg like a little homunculus , then separating the embryo into two or more separate parts would divide the pattern in two or more and each should form just a fragment of the whole . |