Example sentences of "was [verb] down [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 2 | I was marched down to A block [ punishment ] . |
| 3 | ONE WAR WAS WINDing down for a while , not ending , because they never end . |
| 4 | She was sinking down into a dream , aware only of the warmth of his body wrapped intimately against her own . |
| 5 | ‘ To say I am delighted is an understatement , ’ said Wallace , who was tracked down on a business trip to Moscow by a Garryowen club colleague . |
| 6 | TRUE Brit Wayne Batterbee was turned down for a job — because he has the Union Jack tattooed on his hand . |
| 7 | In 1944 our Lancaster of 57 Sqn , piloted by Flt Lt Bulcraig was shot down on a raid on Revigny , Northern France , killing the pilot , Bomb Aimer Fg Off Robson , Flt Eng Sgt Gale and W/Op Sgt Loughlin . |
| 8 | Bryn was shot down on a bombing raid in 1944 and the Belgian resistance smuggled him to safety in a coffin . |
| 9 | Shown here is the Queen Mother looking at the display relating to Frank Griffiths , the sole survivor of a Halifax that was shot down on a supply mission , and who was successfully hidden by the local Resistance . |
| 10 | The government attributed the crash to a technical fault , but foreign diplomats speculate that the helicopter was shot down by a Blowpipe . |
| 11 | After dropping out of RADA he joined the RAF in the war , was shot down in a bombing mission over Denmark and spent three years in a Polish PoW camp . |
| 12 | Stephen Wylie , a twenty-four year old businessman from Swindon was travelling on a minor road towards the village of Clanfield when he was flagged down by a man at the side of the road . |
| 13 | Five pirates were on their feet , and another man was lying down with a head wound . |
| 14 | I was tired , Thérèse said : so I was lying down for a bit . |
| 15 | As a result of the decision , which was handed down by a judge in Newcastle , the holders of all Ministry Licences could successfully contest the termination date of existing agreements . |
| 16 | Occasionally with him she had the sense she was going down through a hole in the floor . |
| 17 | Madeleine said she did n't mind , but you could see his lordship was going down like a dose of castor oil . |
| 18 | Press restrictions were imposed ( but quickly lifted ) and the weekly current affairs magazine Caretas was closed down for a time , commentators thereby inferring that the chief target of the coup was APRA . |
| 19 | Their own staff had become acutely discontented — they were understaffed and overworked , and after the hype was all over Oxford DHSS was closed down by a strike lasting two months against understaffing . |
| 20 | Three weeks ago I was invited down to a meeting of water workers . |
| 21 | The woman suffered head injuries after she was mowed down by a car which mounted the pavement . |
| 22 | There was not a lot to tour in the inclement weather , though the Bohemia concert party was marked down for a visit , and the bandstand too held promise , though with all these people about , she doubted she would hear the music . |
| 23 | Well there was you would er buy your errands and they was marked down in a book at the shop . |
| 24 | The sedan chair was set down in a space of its own , and the curtains drawn aside . |
| 25 | To prove his divinity he had the praetorians of his planetary guard butcher all the Preachers of the Imperial Cult and all Administratum officials whom he could catch — while the Pontifex of the Imperial Cult was winched down into a volcano . |
| 26 | Ranger Jeffrey Judd was winched down in a basket to where the Hollywood cameraman lay exhausted , 60 ft below the rim of the Kilauea volcano . |
| 27 | On Nov. 27 part of Vienna 's Hofburg palace , where the Ausrian Hapsburg monarchs had lived , was burnt down in a fire which destroyed the 18th century Redoutensaal where the 1979 SALT treaty was signed . |
| 28 | It was laid down by a judgement of the King 's Court in 1205 that ‘ No one ought or is able to divide up or in any way to alienate a serjeanty ’ . |
| 29 | Aviemore Cottage , built around 1886 , was demolished five years ago to make way for a block of flats — some of which have never been sold — while Aviemore House , a posting station on the old stagecoach route from Inverness , was pulled down by a property consortium in the 1960s . |
| 30 | Official UN reports supported Italian government findings that the plane was brought down by a missile , but responsibility could not be attributed . |