Example sentences of "was [verb] down for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside , Baker Street was closed down for the weekend except for the Barracuda Club , which had taken over from the original School Dinners restaurant after it moved across the road to usurp the No. 34 Wine Bar . |
| 2 | At dusk , passing through the countryside , everything was slowing down for the night . |
| 3 | Around me the camp was settling down for the night , bricks securing groundsheets , tent flaps tied tight , kerosene lamps hissing away their shadows . |
| 4 | Lower bruised his left leg and was stood down for the rest of the afternoon by the course doctors . |
| 5 | On this occasion , everything was shut down for the night but in the morning when the armourers were about to start work , something went wrong . |