Example sentences of "was [verb] down [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court ruling was handed down on the 21st anniversary of the first day of the police siege of Red Army commandos at a hotel on Mount Asama , north of Tokyo . |
| 2 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 3 | Many medieval millers paid their rent to the lord of the manor in eels ; and when the water-mill in the centre of Stafford was pulled down after the last war , the laconic miller expressed as his only regret : ‘ I shall miss the eels . ’ |
| 4 | He had one fight in 1984 and was knocked down for the first time in his career . |
| 5 | It was burned down on the second anniversary of the Falklands War . |