Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | The posts were eventually taken down and themselves burnt before the mound was built over the top and the ring ditch dug around the outside . |
| 2 | As they emerged through the smoke and chaos , with uniforms shredded and faces blackened , they were taken by their countrymen defending the fort outside to be that most feared of enemies — French African troops — and were relentlessly mown down . |
| 3 | At any rate , try not to be in the lee of other aircraft — many owners do n't give heavy weather a second thought and a considerable proportion of aircraft were damaged last winter because other planes which were badly tied down cartwheeled into them . |
| 4 | In other matches skippers Kim Barnett and Mark Benson scored centuries but were badly let down by their team-mates . |
| 5 | Reports of the Allied advance in southern Italy were much played down . |
| 6 | But not so much I think er with a lot of henhouses and that they were better battened down I think after the first year . |
| 7 | Those who did were swiftly cut down , peppered with birdshot , as they raised their guns to fire . |
| 8 | These were swiftly put down and the Glasgow Volunteers , as fine a body of men as ever struggled from one ditch to another , were always ready to spring into action at the drop of a rifle . |
| 9 | These were swiftly put down by a detachment of the newly established Armed Police firing tear gas into the crowds . |
| 10 | Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time . |
| 11 | ‘ One year ’ — Māilo 's eyes lit up at the memory — ‘ I sold so many musk pods at the Indian border that I could hardly walk back , my pockets were so weighted down with silver coins . ’ |
| 12 | They were so run down that passenger trains were rarely entrusted to them if anything else could be found , and they were to be seen hauling coal trains as on this occasion when No. 46156 ‘ The South Wales Borderers ’ passed Holmewood heading south in 1964 . |
| 13 | Apart from the investment in systems , 1984 saw the start of a steady refurbishment programme to update and revive the 116 chain stores , which were so run down , they looked in Pitcher 's words like ‘ a missing tooth on the high street . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ All the people who worked with Laura in those years experienced the rough edge of her humour at some time or other , usually when you were so run down and exhausted , after four or five days travelling with no proper sleep , that you could not fight back . ’ |
| 15 | In both Britain and France , aspirations were greatly watered down by events . |
| 16 | The capital asset value of the land was high and farms were normally passed down within the family . |
| 17 | But this common-carrier principle has produced little such trade because negotiations were soon bogged down in technical committees full of engineers from the very monopolies that stood most to lose from cross-border competition . |
| 18 | While the police were thus tied down , in the Garngad district there was ‘ an organised attempt at looting ’ . |
| 19 | In January 1990 Roh said that the opposition might have a limited say in discussions on reunification , but invitations delivered to Panmunjom on Jan. 15 were nevertheless turned down . |
| 20 | Courts are however reluctant to take any action which will close premises down , as evidenced by the Shoreham and Cheltenham cases , in which it was between four and five years after the issue of the original writ that the businesses were finally closed down . |
| 21 | At the time when there were doubts about whether or not the tour would go ahead , after the first invitations were largely turned down , numerous stories started to circulate that there would be money available and that sponsors were in the country looking for players . |
| 22 | These losses were largely put down to aggressive lending to domestic property and corporate sectors , both of which were now in recession . |
| 23 | The majority of Linfield 's moves were easily broken down , with the Blues contributing to their own problems through sloppy passing and half-hearted tackles . |
| 24 | Cathbad clicked his tongue , because this was not the sort of thing you should say to soldiers , who were easily cast down and sent into gloom and doom , something you should certainly avoid before going into battle . |
| 25 | D Company had spent the previous day digging a line of trenches to cover a series of vehicle checkpoints on all the main roads , and were just settling down for their first day 's occupation of the trenches . |
| 26 | But in an interview with police one of the defendants claimed the men were just crouching down by the boards because they were trying to shelter from a strong wind . |
| 27 | I made my way through all the guard checkpoints and got to the Hotel Intourist in the middle of town at about 11 o'clock when David and Geoffrey were just siting down to lunch . |
| 28 | It then erm , they would , they went out in one complete entity you see and the trolley wires were just taken down . |
| 29 | We were just sitting down to our dinner when the chief Druid came in sight with his begging bowl and Tony got under the bed . |
| 30 | We were just sitting down when Nutty burst in with his smelly Brits and they stuck their fingers in the cooking pot . |