Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] down [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 2 | Party officials full of earnest endeavour were passing down all-Russian directives from Moscow in rather a wooden manner . |
| 3 | Champion Leeds would agree with that — they were shot down 4-1 . |
| 4 | The bones released from the scats as they decayed were washed down this gully , and this resulted in the separation of two distinct bone assemblages : the one remaining at the top of the hill consisted of about 60 per cent dental and jaw fragments while the one washing down the hill consisted of more than 70 per cent vertebrae . |
| 5 | Then we realised the mistake was ours : we were heading down one of Madeira 's ordinary roads , with cars hooting to overtake on both sides . |
| 6 | The Chair is obviously referring to the fact recently in the courts , there was consideration of the closure of old persons ' homes , and you know that you are under a legal requirement to consult in respect of those otherwise any decision , to close without consultation can held to be invalid , and that has impinged on some authorities who were going down that route , so there is a duty there . |
| 7 | It is hard to be sure about the year the photograph was taken , since the monuments of both Pahlavis were pulled down several times , whenever the occasion presented itself to the people . ’ |
| 8 | Most of the ancient city walls were pulled down twenty years ago and the gate now stands alone on a traffic island like a great beached whale washed up on the edge of the city . |
| 9 | They were coming down one of the streets that led to the square . |
| 10 | They are still worrying about the foundations of quantum mechanics that were laid down sixty-five years ago . |
| 11 | It was only as these were run down that recourse was made to mining . |
| 12 | During those final weeks , cameraman Gunnar Fischer and Patrick McGoohan were struck down ill . |
| 13 | They were escorted down long corridors — cooled by fans , for the weather was still very warm-by a senior aide , who was French , and by his aide , who was Algerian . |
| 14 | We were led down black-and-white-tiled corridors , through a series of presence chambers , all huge and hung with tapestries which Wolsey had brought from abroad . |
| 15 | Tears were rolling down many faces . |
| 16 | If this layer of new material were put down each summer free from mechanical stresses the beam or branch would droop until the new material took up the strain and we should have a tree like a weeping willow . |
| 17 | Senior sources at the Palace were playing down any talk of it being a disaster , pointing to more sympathetic coverage in South Korean newspapers . |
| 18 | And what would you do if someone were to break down those pillars , Shae — scream and protest and say it had all been done against your will ? ’ |
| 19 | It is not just the six weeks we were shut down this summer and the loss of trade since , we are worried about the future . |
| 20 | By the end of the week , Emma was whizzing down green runs , turning superbly and tackling the lifts with ease . |
| 21 | It was 11.00 p.m. at night when the victim , in her early 30s , was walking down this alleyway off Barton Street in Tewkesbury . |
| 22 | Now she was winding down another dead shift at the Decatur House bar , four customers on the dregs , drinking a little herself to get through the night . |
| 23 | He was climbing down one of the young dunes , slowly , feeling with the butt of his spear like a blind man — a thing as substance less as a swirl of rain . |
| 24 | ‘ My method was to write down these observations as soon as possible after hearing or observing them . |
| 25 | The future is a plate of steel floor covering that creaks and whistles as it is dragged clear of the supports to which it was bolted down thirty years before . |
| 26 | That site was turned down four years ago on environmental grounds . |
| 27 | Mr Clarke said his office tried ‘ several times ’ to arrange a meeting , four months before the bombshell announcement that 31 pits were to close with the loss of 30,000 jobs , but was turned down each time . |
| 28 | It happened with the help of a loose monetary policy , under which the central bank 's discount rate was pushed down four times in 1985–87 , to a historic low of 2.5% . |
| 29 | Allowing for the hour 's difference between French time and GMT , this meant that Thomas 's aircraft was shot down 30 minutes after the main attack . |
| 30 | For at the very time he was sitting alone in the house , in the early hours of the morning of the funeral day , reading again his father 's will , the most modern ship in the world , the SS Titanic , was going down stern first , with all its lights blazing into the icy waters of the North Atlantic . |