Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blenning Bombers , er were these Bostons and Harvards they er quite a twin engine quite a wide wingspan and quite heavy for what they were , but as they were stripped down in , in the top hanger , and like I say a lot of stuff was salvaged from them , which was still good as they went out reconditioned at the other end . |
| 2 | At Eton , the Southern trialists were whittled down to a 16-man squad to face Essex at Forest on 5 November . |
| 3 | Though his proposals were whittled down in Congress , the Revenue Act of 1921 and later measures provided for big tax cuts on high personal incomes and the removal of the excess profit tax . |
| 4 | The way she spoke , all words were broken down into distinct syllables . |
| 5 | As well as procedures , structural grammar developed the technique of immediate constituent analysis , a technique for cutting a sentence into its immediate constituents , which in turn were broken down into their immediate constituents and so on to the ultimate constituent . |
| 6 | In order to study the growth rates in more detail , the data were broken down into annual figures , ( See Table 4 ) . |
| 7 | Under the pressure of population growth the fenland holdings were broken down into smaller and smaller fragments . |
| 8 | All utterances that were more than 10 words in length were broken down into clauses of less than 10 words thereby producing a total of 115 utterances with an average of 7.07 words and 26.56 phonemes per utterance . |
| 9 | Ray Angel put the final touches , adding echo and reverberation when the voices were relayed down to the studio floor . |
| 10 | Then they were sat down in neat rows , boys on one side and girls on the other . |
| 11 | ‘ I was always pissed off that , intellectually , we were looked down upon . |
| 12 | In the ‘ rotunda ’ of Chicago Central of 1892–3 the main ribs of the vault were carried down to the floor . |
| 13 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |
| 14 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 15 | Then we were lifted down through a trap door and laid on a mattress . |
| 16 | English observers felt England had improved and that they dominated periods of the game but were let down by defensive errors . |
| 17 | Crusaders , who hammered Wakefield 30-0 in the first round , were never in front and were let down by bad handling in atrocious conditions . |
| 18 | The judges noted that some enticing covers were let down by their contents , and vice versa , but that ‘ accountability and imagination do not demand a high budget ’ . |
| 19 | Then a series of colours that took my fancy were thinned down with water and sprayed , or rather spattered using a mouth diffuser , over the colours I have previously applied . |
| 20 | So it is that even events from the distant past " were written down for our instruction " in order that in the present and for the future " by encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope " . |
| 21 | But linguistic and other factors indicate that the oracles were written down by the 12th century BC . |
| 22 | The results were written down by Thoth . |
| 23 | Her words were written down by recorders , whom she sometimes exhorted to write faster to keep pace with her . |
| 24 | As unemployment began to escalate it may also have been true that those who were the first to be made redundant or were turned down for work were those who were least efficient . |
| 25 | Battling Dave Cannon sprayed a whole trailer-load of the cow muck over a council building after plans for his retirement bungalow were turned down for the fourth time . |
| 26 | They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish . |
| 27 | So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ . |
| 28 | Invitations were turned down on the grounds that ‘ we would only have to ask them back ’ . |
| 29 | Brixton itself was one of only two colleges which had nationally recognized diplomas in the field ( it was one of only four specialist institutions in the field ) , and as a member of the School he experienced the ‘ shock of rejection ’ , when its degree proposals were turned down in 1967–68 . |
| 30 | They were turned down by the Minister of Traffic and Waterways , Mrs Maij-Weggen , and it seemed that the idea , which was abandoned . |