Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] down at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish . |
| 2 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Thousands of young volunteers , who had abandoned civilian safety to enlist in Kitchener 's great New Army , were cut down at the Somme , and their comrades disillusioned . |
| 6 | ‘ Coming sir , ’ they both trilled , and soon we were sitting down at the dining table in a corner of the living-room . |
| 7 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 8 | Court Four of the Royal Courts of Justice in London was packed with judges and barristers to hear the support lent to Lord Lane , who announced in February that he was stepping down at the age of 73 , 18 months before the compulsory retirement age for judges . |
| 9 | He glanced from time to time out of the window , as if to see what was happening down at the jetty . |
| 10 | He was looking down at the pavement outside the house . |
| 11 | It must have been an automatic reaction because he was looking down at the motionless figure and shouting , ‘ Harriet ! ’ |
| 12 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
| 13 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 14 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
| 15 | When they had gone , Maria glanced at Luke , but to her relief he was looking down at the photos Florian had left behind , his expression inscrutable . |
| 16 | The music was turned down at the request of a fat man who was actually trying to sleep through all the noise . |
| 17 | It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand |
| 18 | It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand |
| 19 | They all used to hang out there and quite a scene had developed Some of it had to do with it being the antithesis of the whole trash/sleaze thing that was going down at the start of the seventies . |
| 20 | ‘ What exactly was going down at the farm ? ’ he asked . |
| 21 | His father was pointing down at the rocks . |
| 22 | When the local government map was laid down at the end of the nineteenth century , many of the administrative units — for example , Anglo-Saxon shires and medieval boroughs — were already outdated . |
| 23 | The long thin mouth was pulled down at the corners like a tragic mask , the eyes were hooded , the shoulders hunched , head bent forward so that the man 's gaze seemed fixed on the surface of the table . |
| 24 | She was staring down at the undulating ground . |
| 25 | She was sitting down at the table ; he thought she really was looking very ill and wretched but his tender pride kept him silent . |
| 26 | Alan was sitting down at the end of the lawn , his back to the house ‘ so you do n't distract me ’ , finishing off some work for Monday . |
| 27 | To drain the works in the soles of Fleming 's Level , a pumping and winding sump was put down at the intersection with the cross-cut and it is believed that power for this was by hand . |
| 28 | Er , what I would like to propose the erm a a that resolution two of course , was put down at the time it had to be put down er , and is clearly going to be affected by , that it happened at the th the financial services in March and what I have suggested is that you might prefer this be a a a second resolution it is or and turn to the to add on the end of that resolution thus urging local churches to through their consultations with district treasurers and finance committee to increase their contributions to the Ministry of Mission Fund in nineteen ninety three in such a way that provincial commi , commitment may be increased by at least five percent over the nineteen ninety two . |
| 29 | And I was working upstairs in er what 's called the gascon module , Which was shut down at the time for repair work and things like that . |