Example sentences of "been [vb pp] down in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Some of the branch lines had been closed down in the Beeching fifties . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Once again the officers have taken over the ship by some nifty footwork , and the mutineers have been battened down in the fo'csle . |
| 6 | An earlier proposal was £8 , but that has been scaled down in the face of protest . |
| 7 | The gentle mercies of the lash were used even more extravagantly for civilising the ‘ primitive ’ peoples of the Empire in the nineteenth century , and in one of its anti-garotting tirades Punch ( 6 December 1862 ) had good cause to remember the lesson of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 which had been put down in a sea of blood . |
| 8 | True , Gilels does half-smudge the odd chord but , then , his recording gives the impression of having been put down in a handful of massive musically organic takes , where the new Philips occasionally betrays signs of cutting-room technology . |
| 9 | An early day motion has also been put down in the House of Commons supporting their case . |
| 10 | But according to Chris Cowdrey , who made his England debut in Bombay in November 1984 just 48 hours after British High Commissioner Percy Norris had been gunned down in the streets nearby , tight security could suffocate the England players . |