Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the first grey slivers of dawn were filtering down through the trees , Roger Forester climbed stiffly from his hire car and stood on the track beside it , stretching his sore limbs and trying to beat some warmth into himself . |
| 2 | At Eton , the Southern trialists were whittled down to a 16-man squad to face Essex at Forest on 5 November . |
| 3 | Sleek towers that were telescoping down into the undercity , leaving great smooth plazas where they had previously reared , chequerboard-patterned spaces with a hint of roof outlines . |
| 4 | Ray Angel put the final touches , adding echo and reverberation when the voices were relayed down to the studio floor . |
| 5 | I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor . |
| 6 | When we were driving down from the border towards Beni Abbes , we quaked every time we saw police or soldiers . |
| 7 | In the ‘ rotunda ’ of Chicago Central of 1892–3 the main ribs of the vault were carried down to the floor . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 10 | Then we were lifted down through a trap door and laid on a mattress . |
| 11 | At twenty past ten Sandison put his book away and sat back to watch the people who were walking down to the square . |
| 12 | Did n't look very well , we were walking down by the side of the road ! |
| 13 | If you were to write down on a sheet of paper half a dozen simple statements of fact which were either true or false and then turn the questions face down , the pendulum will come up with which are which . ’ |
| 14 | People were climbing down from the truck and seemed to be forming another queue . |
| 15 | But linguistic and other factors indicate that the oracles were written down by the 12th century BC . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | Invitations were turned down on the grounds that ‘ we would only have to ask them back ’ . |
| 20 | They were turned down by the Minister of Traffic and Waterways , Mrs Maij-Weggen , and it seemed that the idea , which was abandoned . |
| 21 | Similar proposals from the company for Hillington were turned down by the Scottish Secretary last March , after a public inquiry , on the grounds that the site is zoned for strategic industrial use . |
| 22 | For a moment she was too surprised to speak and simply stared as if she were looking down on an apparition . |
| 23 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 24 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 25 | We were looking down into a little valley like a green cup in the hills . |
| 26 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
| 27 | The servants of Chaos were hunted down in the forests , and many wild and long-abandoned lands were re-settled . |
| 28 | When my right hon. Friend visits the United Nations , will he raise the issue of the RAF aircrew who were shot down over the Gulf , some of whom came from west Norfolk ? |
| 29 | It is said — and I have never been able to verify this figure — 70% , and not all were shot down by the fighters , although the majority of aircraft were . |
| 30 | The London theatres , which had for so long been a particular thorn in the side of Puritan moralists such as William Prynne , were closed down at the outbreak of the civil war and remained shut until the Restoration . |