Example sentences of "been [verb] down from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist . |
| 2 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 3 | Ian had been travelling down from the States and through Mexico . |
| 4 | It was n't likely that anyone would come that way , for the hen crees were situated in the field just beyond the hedge , and the sheep were there too , having been brought down from the hills after ten of their already small stock had been taken . |
| 5 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |