Example sentences of "they [vb past] [vb pp] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was woken up in the night sometimes , the spare bed in my room being made up for someone they 'd met down the Club , the other lodger 's room already occupied . |
| 2 | It was all too much , waiting for that upstart Hitler to make up his mind ; to envisage the Germans strutting down the Mall as they 'd strutted down the Champs Élysées . |
| 3 | They had trampled down the rye ahead of their line to make a killing ground some sixty yards deep and , judging by the sound of their musketry , the Dutch-Belgian skirmishers were fighting with a brisk energy . |
| 4 | Material things they had in plenty , and though they had moved to cheaper housing she could not actually remember feeling that they had moved down the social ladder at all . |
| 5 | That 's why they had torn down the children 's hospital to make room for the miniature golf course . |
| 6 | They had slipped down the First Division , losing five consecutive League matches . |
| 7 | Or maybe they had closed down the Project and abandoned him . |
| 8 | A bitter debate in the Executive of the National Union on 8 February 1917 resulted in the setting up of a special sub-committee to consider the Bill ; a suggestion that MPs should be ineligible for the sub-committee because they had let down the party so badly in the Speaker 's Conference was only narrowly lost . |
| 9 | Whoever , or whatever was in the hold seemed unwilling or unable — they had battened down the hatch once more — to do battle in the open . |