Example sentences of "be [vb pp] down [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two ‘ half-pictures ’ are transmitted down a single cable TV channel with normal bandwidth . |
| 2 | The birds follow the dog and are lured down a wide tunnel made of netting called a pipe . |
| 3 | The pathogenesis of the disease has always been controversial , but considerable circumstantial evidence exists to support the suggestion that it is due to implantation of endometrium that has been refluxed down the fallopian tube at menstruation . |
| 4 | It can be heard down the entire High Street . |
| 5 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
| 6 | Lowe stripped to swim , and getting on the trunk of an uprooted tree , hoped to be carried down the eddying flood to some part where he could obtain assistance . |
| 7 | She could be trapped down a vertical hole within the burrow system . |
| 8 | The trucks themselves had to be manhandled down the steep rock-strewn defile and as the men were sweating away at this in the hot sun an Italian aircraft picked them up . |
| 9 | Under a local anaesthetic , a whisk-like device will be passed down a fine tube into the gall bladder and rotated at 30,000 revolutions a minute , mincing the gallstones to a paste which is then sucked out through a tube . |
| 10 | This group , under the chairmanship of Dr Toni Eden , has been drafting standards for every service that is likely to be piped down a British cable system . |
| 11 | As messages are passed down the autonomic nervous system , the blood vessels in erectile tissue everywhere — penis , walls of the vagina , ear lobes , nose ( notice the stuffiness ? ) — are engorging . |
| 12 | Tabitha found herself being diverted down a long underground tunnel to the civil concourse . |
| 13 | Being let down an Italian well , by a crowd of villagers . |
| 14 | A simple way to appreciate what it means is to visualise the Spectra line being passed down a hollow tube ( the ‘ sleeve ’ ) until it appears at the other end . |
| 15 | As this happens , the fertilised egg is carried down the fallopian tube into the uterus . |
| 16 | In the resonance technique a series of pulses of either compressional or torsional waves is transmitted down a long rod mechanically coupled to the specimen under investigation . |
| 17 | In other words , a sea burial in Coral Pastures.Just in case there 's any confusion , ’ and he smiled , ‘ he 's written down the exact co-ordinates . ’ |
| 18 | Mystery date is led down a blind alley |
| 19 | It is concealed down a narrow alley linking Hatton Garden with Ely Court but patrons have been finding their way to it since the sixteenth century . |
| 20 | The process is repeated down the entire column of figures . |
| 21 | There they had been born , their wicker bassinette had been bumped down the shallow flight of steps to the pavement by their trim nursemaid , young men had called , but not one of the three tall sisters had emerged from the house as a bride . |
| 22 | The whole school was closed down a few years ago . |
| 23 | The new methods of mass production , were unsuccessful and was closed down a few years later . |
| 24 | I was dragged down the hard , concrete steps on to the pavement . |
| 25 | This downhill was set down the long-established OK course from Bellewarde to La Daille ; the two in February will be on the new Olympic piste carved down the precipitate north-east face on to the very heart of the village . |
| 26 | Reaching the end of the main corridor they climbed out of the cart and Endill was led down a shorter corridor where they turned left , then right , along another with squeaky floorboards . |
| 27 | Inside I was guided down a weird stairway and told at one point to watch my step carefully . |
| 28 | 82 year old Ivor James was knocked down a few yards from his home . |
| 29 | Word was passed down the long column to close up , and to be ready to make a dash for the ford . |
| 30 | The privilege of holding a market or fair was extended down the social hierarchy as the Middle Ages progressed , and the royal records are full of references to grants of markets and fairs as the economy developed . |