Example sentences of "down and [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it should have been better for , needing only to hit the 18th green with a sand wedge he went into a bunker , failed to get up and down and ended with a bogey five . |
| 2 | The widow of a security guard who was knocked down and killed during a robbery has appealed for help to track down his killers . |
| 3 | A boy knocked down and killed by a car near Denton Burn , Newcastle , was named yesterday as Jonathon Kelly , 12 , of Southview , West Denton . |
| 4 | He was a politician and a financier , well-known in his time ; but we remember him today because on the 15th of September 1830 , at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , he became the first person to be run down and killed by a train ( that 's what he became , was turned into ) . |
| 5 | I put the phone down and slumped in a chair . |
| 6 | The pivotal notion of Spandau prison being pulled down and replaced by a supermarket was one which greatly excited Brenton , signifying at a stroke both Western Europe 's descent into cynical consumerism and the wiping out of history . |
| 7 | Dot kept still and quiet , head down and hunched like a bird sleeping , hoping Gloria would n't know she was in there . |
| 8 | Jason looked down and fiddled with a pencil on his desk . |
| 9 | The fine tree was soon noticed by the king of Byblos , who ordered it to be cut down and made into a column to support the hall roof of his palace . |
| 10 | He was knocked down and injured by a horse when the rider lost control while riding too fast . |
| 11 | Lissa 's mouth shaped her distaste , and she put her cup down and realised with a start that Adam was saying something . |
| 12 | Not a lot really , he 's come down and hacked through a couple of tunes with us . |
| 13 | Be sure to provide a comfortable bed , which can be a cardboard box with its sides cut down and lined with a blanket . |
| 14 | On 19 June 1841 the spire of St Michael 's was struck by lightning so severely that it had to be taken down and rebuilt at a cost of £84 , paid for by the Buxtons . |
| 15 | After that he 'd come down and hopped through a hole in the fence where the canal ran alongside some waste ground , and now he was staying off the streets as he made his way across town and toward home ground . |