Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | The foresters of fee usually had the right to take ‘ cablish ’ — that is , dead and dry wood , and trees or branches blown down by the wind within their bailiwicks : in Bernwood Forest , if the wind felled ten trees ‘ in one night and one day ’ , the king took them all , but if there were less than ten , the forester of fee took them . |
| 2 | The ones who do object , and with reason , are those whose land has been trampled over without care , whose stock have got loose because gates have been left open or walls broken down , or whose sheep have cut themselves or choked to death on the bottles and plastic bags thrown away by the Wandering Wallies of this world that have as much common sense and appreciation of the countryside as a toad has feathers . |
| 3 | Erm in terms of Community budget so this Environment Committee and Conservatives gone down to below sort of seventy two million so we are not actually getting any sort of . |
| 4 | But on the other hand , we were only working to rule , we were working by rules and regulations laid down from various Acts and negotiated er agreements . |
| 5 | There were four calls , and flowers thrown down from the boxes ; , then the cast had gone . |
| 6 | Having played little part in the August riots ( epitomised by the derisory slogan , ‘ IRA — I Ran Away ’ ) , old IRA men came out of retirement ( Rose , 1972 ) and ‘ there was a steady stream of recruits from young men who had seen houses and streets burnt down by Loyalist mobs and who 'd been unable to prevent them ’ ( Farrell , 1980:267 ) . |