Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So , for example , many of the nurseries opened during the Second World War were closed down after the war . |
| 32 | All radio stations were closed down by the mutineers ; several ministers , including the Prime Minister , were reported to have been arrested and others were seeking asylum in foreign embassies . |
| 33 | The city refuse , the corpses of dogs , cats , beggars , lepers and even unwanted babies , were dumped in the Fleet ditch and , when the rains came , were washed down to the Thames . |
| 34 | The nails on the hand clutching the pen were bitten down to the quick — always a sign of savagery . |
| 35 | Bull O'Malley 's heavy eyebrows were drawn down in a confused frown . |
| 36 | As he watched , more and more were pouring down onto the rope , from the round hole in the ceiling that led to the bell itself . |
| 37 | Temperatures were measured down to a depth of 5 kilometres , where seasonal fluctuations have no effect . |
| 38 | ‘ Some of the other kids were going down to the Ash Grove later , ’ she complained . |
| 39 | There they were going down to the car . |
| 40 | Most of the airfields were bomber units , with the exception of Debden in Essex , a Mustang base , where they were talked down by the American Ground Controllers after exercising around in fog for some time . |
| 41 | ‘ Calcraft , and on another occasion Warnham , were invited down to a meeting in some tavern by the riverside where Mistress Rachel was waiting to talk to them . |
| 42 | British troops were bogged down in the Flanders quagmire . |
| 43 | It was a bitterly cold winter with thick snow ; both sides were bogged down in the Apennines from December to April . |
| 44 | These were narrowed down to a short list of 13 from which Jim 's was selected as best-overall . |
| 45 | Amanda had been all enthusiastic even in the rain , saying it was spray in her face and look at the gulls , which were swooping down on the shoal of crisp packets and orange peel trailing in the wake . |
| 46 | He was a young man , probably no more than twenty ; his teeth were worn down to the stumps by rough ground corn , the tops so sliced through they might have been cut with a circular saw and the resulting surface polished with emery paper . |
| 47 | I was terribly embarrassed ; not only was I a convent girl but the skirts were worn down to the ankles and women just did n't show their legs in those days . |
| 48 | The horsemen of Ellyrion were pulled down by the foul beasts of Chaos . |
| 49 | An early regard for the quality of life was shown when the walls of the medieval town were pulled down in the early nineteenth century . |
| 50 | On the far bank white oxen were coming down to the water . |
| 51 | and it went up into those they were coming down in the minibus and er we stopped so the I ca n't remember where we stopped . |
| 52 | They were coming down from the Quarry , bigger engines . |
| 53 | Rules were laid down for the management of schools , and the provision of finance by local authorities . |
| 54 | Most of them are sandstones or limestones that were laid down at the bottom of the shallow seas that once covered this part of North America . |
| 55 | The bike was sealed to make it waterproof and tracks were laid down under the water for it . |
| 56 | The spending plans were laid down on the assumption of no recession . |
| 57 | Detailed regulations for the construction of new buildings were laid down in a great variety of Acts and bye-laws . |
| 58 | Thomist theology and philosophy were laid down in a rather ossified form as the normative Catholic intellectual system , drawn from the Middle Ages and therefore free of any taint of modern influence . |
| 59 | Guidelines in this area were laid down in the case of Marshall v Harland & Wolff Ltd ( 1972 ) . |
| 60 | Its weakness was its technical conservatism ; although in 1880 the Admiralty agreed to reintroduce breechloading guns on heavy ships , the armoured cruisers Impérieuse and Warspite , which were laid down in the same year , were still designed to carry a full spread of sail . |