Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] down from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 2 | A child , named Lewis after his father , was born to Goram and his wife 18 months ago , and added another stabilising dimension to the life of a player now consumed by the need to make the most of the gifts that were handed down from father to son . |
| 3 | It was in fact , a closed shop , and those working practices and skills were handed down from mother to daughter . |
| 4 | So what if she has only three frocks to her name ( ‘ cuts down on the washin' ’ ) Or if her ‘ fur ’ coat looks like it was handed down from Wilma Flintstone . |
| 5 | Cricket lore was handed down from Yorkshire dad to lad , so much so that in the end the family history itself was the enemy . |
| 6 | Money was handed down from father to son ; it lost its merit as a token of worth ; the idle and nasty could be a great deal more rich than the hardworking and good . |
| 7 | So the arrangements were made with the White Star line and unbeknown to Nellie , Liam eventually did get two reservations on the new ship , which was brought down from Liverpool to Southampton , where most of the passengers got on , and then to Cherbourg to pick up some more and finally to Queenstown before crossing the Atlantic to New York . |
| 8 | The look on the devil-man 's face was a foolish , exaggerated astonishment , like the face he wore when Lucifer was cast down from Heaven to Hell against all his expectations . |
| 9 | He was sent down from Eton in 1863 for a few months for having made a forbidden visit to a Jesuit house . |