Example sentences of "was [verb] down [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the week , Emma was whizzing down green runs , turning superbly and tackling the lifts with ease . |
| 2 | It was 11.00 p.m. at night when the victim , in her early 30s , was walking down this alleyway off Barton Street in Tewkesbury . |
| 3 | ‘ My method was to write down these observations as soon as possible after hearing or observing them . |
| 4 | The future is a plate of steel floor covering that creaks and whistles as it is dragged clear of the supports to which it was bolted down thirty years before . |
| 5 | That site was turned down four years ago on environmental grounds . |
| 6 | Mr Clarke said his office tried ‘ several times ’ to arrange a meeting , four months before the bombshell announcement that 31 pits were to close with the loss of 30,000 jobs , but was turned down each time . |
| 7 | It happened with the help of a loose monetary policy , under which the central bank 's discount rate was pushed down four times in 1985–87 , to a historic low of 2.5% . |
| 8 | Allowing for the hour 's difference between French time and GMT , this meant that Thomas 's aircraft was shot down 30 minutes after the main attack . |
| 9 | Looking back on the fall , he said : ‘ I knew he was going down 20 yards before it happened . |
| 10 | A company is being set-up to try to save an ice rink which was closed down two days ago . |
| 11 | At the top of the list is a European Neutron Source , a successor to the Nuclear Structure Facility at Daresbury that was closed down last month , which many physicists would like to seen built at the Science and Engineering Research Council 's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory . |
| 12 | THE competition to find a new dinghy to be sailed by young people aged from 11 to 15 was narrowed down this week to two boats . |
| 13 | She was actually in the house when the bomb dropped on the other side of the road and she was flung down two flights of stairs and the piano on the other side of the room here bears the scars of the bombing . |
| 14 | The aim was to knock down 100 skittles , a feat achieved first by the hosts with just two points to spare . |
| 15 | The first was to run down both hospitals in parallel until a point of non-viability at either one of them was reached and a closure plan could be executed . |
| 16 | ‘ He was coming down this path from the ferry , and here he was struck down as he passed by . |
| 17 | the wrong , the wrong side of the road , of course you 've got the blind bend , somebody had gone round there , somebody else was coming down old Whitton Road legally |
| 18 | She watched her throat move as if swallowing , and realised that Estelle was gulping down great mouthfuls of the liquid . |
| 19 | It was thus a revolution in British fiscal policy which Chamberlain advocated in the name of Empire ; and from his Birmingham speech in May 1903 until he was struck down three years later his advocacy of tariff reform and his Imperial theme dominated British policies . |
| 20 | It was taken down 200 years later in order to widen Cheapside . |
| 21 | In fact , Benedetti , himself a specialist in Caravaggio , did not recognise the hand of the master until the picture was taken down three years ago and he had an opportunity to examine it under a strong light . |
| 22 | But Patterson was knocked down more times than any heavy-weight champ — with Joe Louis in second place . |
| 23 | Prayers were said , water was poured down parched throats , dates were devoured and the first Ramadan feast began . |
| 24 | The equipment was kept at Harwell in case of an emergency … but it 's not needed anymore since the reactor was shut down two years ago . |
| 25 | Neddy was shut down last year by Norman Lamont , the chancellor . |
| 26 | OMARSKA was shut down this week and the starving prisoners moved out after an ITN report exposed the barbaric conditions . |
| 27 | The intention was to close down that area of attack . |
| 28 | The former Air Chief Marshall and Governor General of Gibraltar was gunned down two years ago while in the drawing room of his mock-Tudor house in the village of Milford , Staffs . |