Example sentences of "been [vb pp] down [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | Southern Command have been whittled down by the Carter- |
| 3 | Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it . |
| 4 | ONCE again , we had been let down by the refusal of human beings to conform to expected patterns . |
| 5 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 6 | I 'm not saying they 'd have been sucked down with the yacht but they might have had a rather uncomfortable time . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |
| 9 | While the original purchase price was £28.8 million , the property had already been written down in the balance sheet to take account of the general fall in values . |
| 10 | That cooker had gone now , and the table had been moved down into the basement … |
| 11 | I also wonder how the system copes with changes to people 's incomes , er many people particularly in recession we heard that unemployment in Cambridge is now approaching ten percent and if you 've been turned down by the council , your council housing on your means test are you really going to go back to them at a time when you may be under a lot of stress with unemployment to have your circumstances reinvestigated , I very much doubt whether people do go back . |
| 12 | President Chissano had offered an immediate armistice , but this had been turned down by the rebel leader . |
| 13 | Later , it emerged that Caledonian Mining had sought a controlling interest rather than an outright takeover , but had been turned down by the consortium . |
| 14 | Or had it been shot down over the Channel ? |
| 15 | But long ago , in 1946 , the questing and the questioning had become almost unbearable , and I knew that to keep my sanity I must force myself to an arbitrary conclusion : I would believe the least terrible of terrible possibilities — that the plane had been shot down over the Channel by enemy action . |
| 16 | Panalpina have been handed down by the House of Lords . |
| 17 | Even if he had been gulped down by the City , Tunney should be making some difference , feeding in his own amendments . |
| 18 | Waterloo , having been worn down in the trench warfare , were left with little option but to run the ball and were still in the match when , from 30 yards range , Buckton fashioned a fine try for the lively Saverimutto . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've been slowed down by the lack of a new engine but we 've found a good engine in the second pack they sent us — it needs a couple of hours of work on minor jobs , but if everything goes well we should have something ready for out-inspection later this afternoon . |
| 20 | A bath chair had been wheeled down to the shelter with the broken windows , and the man in charge of-it had propped it outside and was walking away . |
| 21 | Once again the officers have taken over the ship by some nifty footwork , and the mutineers have been battened down in the fo'csle . |
| 22 | The higher values have been pulled down towards the centre of the batch , bringing Kuwait and Sweden into the main body of the data , and the bottom of the scale has been stretched out correspondingly . |
| 23 | The geostationary communications satellites placed high above the Pacific to link the banking and trading centres of South-East Asia , Japan and Australasia with those of North America preside over a ‘ window ’ of the planetary territory of geometrically fixed size — rather as if a cone , a dunce 's cap , the height of which is equivalent to the altitude necessary for a satellite 's geostationary orbit , had been set down over the ocean . |
| 24 | In Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Health Authority [ 1984 ] AC 174 the defendants sought to persuade the House of Lords to exercise their freedom under the Practice Statement [ 1966 ] 1 WLR 1234 , to reverse two rules that had been laid down by the majority of the House of Lords in West & Son Ltd v Shephard [ 1964 ] AC 326 , namely : ( 1 ) that the fact of unconsciousness does not eliminate the actuality of the deprivation of the ordinary experiences and amenities of life ( see the formulation used by Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest at p349 ) ; and ( 2 ) that , if damages are awarded upon a correct basis , it is of no concern to the court to consider any question as to the use that will thereafter be made of the money awarded . |
| 25 | The first question on this appeal is whether the use of section 236 is limited in the way which Hoffmann J. considered had been laid down by the Court of Appeal in Cloverbay [ 1991 ] Ch. 90 . |
| 26 | Relationship between trade and between members of state , strictly competition and I said I 'd be the one erm relative case , just to demonstrate the course , Lord , erm I 've usefully used the time this morning to do a , a brief aden am moire of the point , the relevant photographs and the , just in case , if I can just hand that out ena enable me to , to speed through the admission , my Lord if I can just er take the through it and apart , my Lord paragraph five is triggered by an agreement which effects trade between members of states , er in windsurfing the court considered an argument that the causes and the contested agreement which had been struck down by the commission did not forward then article eighty five because they did not have that trade between members of states , the court replied , that argument must be rejected , article eighty five does not require that each and individual cause in the agreement should be capable of affecting into community trade , community law or competition applies to agreements between undertakings which may effect member of states , only if the agreement as a whole is capable of effecting trade is it necessary to exam which other clauses of the agreement which havers there object , let's just say or , or effect the restriction of competition . |
| 27 | The inquiry has been scaled down over the year as leads have fizzled out . |
| 28 | In the Newport hundreds , where the level of lay assessments was low and left substantially unchanged by the subsidy , the proportion of wealth owned by the Church was much higher than in the more advanced Chilterns , not only in 1522 but also after the initial assessments had been scaled down for the subsidy . |
| 29 | An earlier proposal was £8 , but that has been scaled down in the face of protest . |
| 30 | ‘ And first of all , I 'm going to climb through the window , ’ she said and reached for a stack of sacking which had been thrown down near the wall and which , piled carefully , might enable her to reach the sill . |