Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] down [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Eton , the Southern trialists were whittled down to a 16-man squad to face Essex at Forest on 5 November . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 4 | Then we were lifted down through a trap door and laid on a mattress . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We were looking down into a little valley like a green cup in the hills . |
| 8 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
| 9 | Bull O'Malley 's heavy eyebrows were drawn down in a confused frown . |
| 10 | Temperatures were measured down to a depth of 5 kilometres , where seasonal fluctuations have no effect . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | These were narrowed down to a short list of 13 from which Jim 's was selected as best-overall . |
| 13 | Detailed regulations for the construction of new buildings were laid down in a great variety of Acts and bye-laws . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A low table carried some tidily arranged journals and newspapers ; letters on the desk top were pinned down by a silver paper knife . |
| 16 | That August the three Maguire children died when they and their mother , Anne , were run down by a terrorist who had been shot by soldiers during an incident . |
| 17 | The tots were struck down by a superbug in the intensive care unit at the London hospital . |
| 18 | The Halflings were cut down to a man , and only a few Knights Panther escaped to warn the Emperor Sigismund of the impending approach of the Orc horde . |
| 19 | I have even dreamed as Marie Romanov ; a nightmare in which I and all my family were taken down into a cellar and shot . |
| 20 | A further three were put down by a vet . |
| 21 | However , if all the jobs a housewife does were put down in a job description people might think twice before saying this . |
| 22 | It was difficult to see exactly what she looked like , for she and Rupert were bending down over a table examining something together . |
| 23 | If for example the relations between Moslem populations in the United Kingdom , or between those populations and the non-Moslem community , were to break down as a result of the crisis in the Gulf , the implications for social cohesion public order and the peaceful coexistence of communities would be grave . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , while working at Southall in 1936 , both were knocked down by a private car and seriously injured . |
| 25 | Two thousand mourners have attended the funeral of two young sisters from Middlesbrough who were knocked down by a car which went out of control . |
| 26 | If the LEA were to lay down as a condition of grant that we should have nothing to do with the University body , we should refuse the grant , and I do not see why Universities should not show the same loyalty to us . |
| 27 | They were settling down to a family Christmas at home when Belinda suddenly got very tired and her temperature soared . |
| 28 | Last night , two Catholics were gunned down at a shop on the Stewartstown Road , west Belfast and one is believed to have been seriously wounded . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 30 | I was marched down to A block [ punishment ] . |