Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] down by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She became bogged down by the very size of the country , the lengthy supply lines , her inability to have her army spread thickly on the ground , the increasingly effective guerilla warfare waged by the Chinese communists , as well as by debilitating rivalries within the Japanese army itself . |
| 2 | From now on we shall not hang around our side of the Front , waiting for the foe and getting shot down by the French artillery . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the articulate voices of anger get shouted down by the bad boys in the back of the room : NWA outsells Fishbone and the Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy by about 50 to one over here . |
| 4 | OK , so you 'd probably end up getting gunned down by the SAS or something , but that 's got to be a better end for a bunch of real rock terrorists than ending up as a Levi 's advert . |
| 5 | ‘ They will have gone down by the other side , ’ said Allan Stewart , ‘ it is their quickest way . ’ |
| 6 | In the past the industry has frequently appeared bogged down by the use of a range of technical terms that mean little to potential customers . |
| 7 | In the past the industry has frequently appeared bogged down by the use of a range of technical terms that mean little to potential customers |
| 8 | But the evidence suggests that the fragile though real co-operation between liberals and workers of 1905 had broken down by the pre-war years . |
| 9 | He had half turned to walk to his car , which he had left down by the jetty , when we heard the sound of a horn , pressed just once — not to warn us against danger but to attract our attention . |
| 10 | pointed out that there was a movement in France for legal standards in embalming laid down by the state , defining courses , tests , times and standards . |