Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate ( NII ) yet to give the go-ahead , or otherwise , for the station to re-start generation again after being shut down since February , 1991 , Mr Moares said it was not surprising that some people had put in for voluntary redundancy . |
| 2 | After being turned down by university , I moved to London and joined the Territorial Army , attending evening training sessions in preparation for the physical selection tests . |
| 3 | And despite selling striker Teddy Sheringham to Tottenham last week for £2.1m , Forest are still busy searching the market for a replacement after being turned down in a £1.5m move for Arsenal 's Alan Smith . |
| 4 | Both these films are somewhat stagey , but contemporary comment could be combined with visual fantasy , as is revealed by Cecil Hepworth 's The Perils of Modern Motoring ( 1905 ) , in which a policeman is left in a dismembered state after being mowed down by a car . |
| 5 | Bryn Weare was sheltered by the Belgian underground after being shot down over Germany . |
| 6 | After being shot down during the Battle of Britain , Stienhilper became a PoW and after a short period in a British camp was transferred to Canada . |
| 7 | SHELL-SHOCKED West Ham missed the chance to steal second place from Division One promotion rivals Tranmere last night after being shot down by Rovers ' ace marksman John Aldridge . |
| 8 | Harry Moyle himself was rescued after being shot down in the sea ( by Spitfires , in fact ) and was rescued by a fishing boat from North Berwick . |
| 9 | Welcome back:An RAF war hero is about to return to Belgium to commemorate his escape from the Nazis after being shot down in a bomber . |
| 10 | Welcome back:An RAF war hero is about to return to Belgium to commemorate his escape from the Nazis after being shot down in a bomber . |
| 11 | Shop windows were smashed , three police officers were injured , and a fan died after being run down in the street . |
| 12 | LIVERPOOL whizz-kid Rob Jones could miss the early weeks of the new season after being struck down by a mystery virus . |
| 13 | After being talked down by a flying instructor last week , Mr Alan Anderson was said to be under sedation . |
| 14 | A woman died yesterday after being knocked down by a shoplifter fleeing with a £2.58 descaler . |
| 15 | A TOP sportswoman was awarded £230,981 damages in the High Court yesterday after being knocked down by a motorcycle . |
| 16 | He died in Florence 26 December 1924 , after being knocked down by a motor vehicle in London . |
| 17 | He died in Oxford 17 February 1921 after being knocked down by a cyclist . |
| 18 | DAVID Bell , 30 , of Arncliffe Hall , Ingleby Cross , near Stokesley , is fighting for his life with serious head injuries after being knocked down by a pick-up truck . |
| 19 | Kevin Tearney , 36 , of Ellenmere Court , Billingham , Cleveland is critically ill in Middlesbrough General Hospital , after being knocked down by a car in Marsh House Avenue , Billingham . |
| 20 | A six-year-old girl was in hospital last night after being knocked down by a car in Raby Road , Hartlepool . |
| 21 | Thomas Donnelly , 53 , of Central Avenue , Billingham , is in Middlesbrough General Hospital with serious head injuries after being knocked down by a vehicle near his home . |
| 22 | A PEDESTRIAN who died after being knocked down by a car in Aberdeen 's Market Street early yesterday morning was named as John Duncan , 45 , a fisherman , of Glenburn Road , Burra , Shetland . |
| 23 | Thin sections for etching should be left a little thicker than usual , after being taken down to at least the 600F Carborundum stage . |
| 24 | He headed in in the 31st minute after Wright 's centre had taken a deflection , then scored from the penalty spot after being brought down by Bennett . |
| 25 | The company now has 260 employees , up from 170 at its birth and has won Borland International Inc chief Phillipe Kahn over — ‘ Technically , it 's brilliant and Taligent is running much faster than I expected ; instead of being bogged down by the bureaucracies of its two large parents , Taligent seems to have taken the best of each company , ’ Kahn commented to the Journal , which notes that Wordperfect Corp and and Novell Inc are doing applications . |
| 26 | I am sometimes weary , sometimes depressed , sometimes afraid of being struck down by illness , but throughout even these moments , the driving force created by the injustice never deserts me … |
| 27 | Similarly the old Roman cities in Languedoc , Burgundy , and the Loire valley regained a truly urban character , after centuries of being pared down to walls , cathedral church , and market place ; townsmen outnumbered clerics , new streets were built for their houses , roads inside the walls began to be levelled to prevent rubbish from blocking the entrances to new stone churches or entrance gates , trades diversified , immigrants poured in . |
| 28 | The association between reading skill and the use of the GPC route was confirmed by a negative correlation between the time taken to pronounce a list of words and the size of the pseudo-homophone impairment : the more skilled children gave a greater indication of being slowed down by the appearance of nonwords which sounded like words . |
| 29 | Tunnels are so emotive and the mind can conjure up thoughts of terror and the possibility of being run down in a dark tunnel . |
| 30 | More than two negative reasons for accepting a job can take a heavy toll on your resources of enthusiasm , particularly if you had the added disappointment of being turned down for the post you 'd really hoped for at the time . |