Example sentences of "was [verb] down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was on a short-list of 15 , and it was whittled down to five . |
| 2 | This was whittled down to three for this event , including me . |
| 3 | Her greatest luxury in life was to sit down with baked beans on toast and watch television . |
| 4 | Subject-matter , in the Skinnerian teaching machine , was broken down into small steps which built upon one another into a great complexity , the student making successive responses and receiving the reinforcement of immediate confirmation at each stage . |
| 5 | Expenditure was broken down into current and capital components . |
| 6 | The grant was broken down for individual lines , as with the pre-1974 British system ( RENFE 1984a : 55–7 , 82 ) . |
| 7 | That was not too bad but , like most ideas ahead of their time , I am afraid that it was voted down by 182 votes to 170 . |
| 8 | In Britain alone , Glasgow St Enoch 's was torn down in European Architectural Heritage Year ( 1975 ) ; Birmingham Snow Hill was allowed to rot for years and finally demolished on safety grounds , epitomizing a technique in all too frequent use — deliberate and wanton neglect given as a justification for removal . |
| 9 | Broadway 's Fulton theatre was given her name in 1955 to celebrate her 50th year on the stage but was torn down in 1982 to make way for a hotel . |
| 10 | The rain was driving down with great force , swamping the dry ground , and within moments her hair was plastered flat against her cheeks . |
| 11 | Hirst may well be fired up for the job against Manchester United , whose £3.5 million bid by fax was turned down amid some acrimony last month by Wednesday manager Trevor Francis . |
| 12 | The Metropolitan Police have said that Courtney offered his services — but he was turned down for any work . |
| 13 | 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 on each occasion . |
| 14 | Bright was turned down on both counts by Field , whose principal consideration was the weather . |
| 15 | That 's if no-one steps in meantime and makes an offer that ca n't be refused ( by the way , an offer from Oracle Corp was turned down in 1990 ) . |
| 16 | But his application was turned down in 1985 , 1986 and 1991 . |
| 17 | I was turned down by all the universities on my UCCA application form , because I had received a bad report from my headmaster at Downside School who said I took drugs , which was true , but was also an admission made to him in confidence . |
| 18 | The Basquiat show was turned down by other major US museums , although attendance at the Whitney rose 20% while the exhibition was up . |
| 19 | It was also of course , we were put forward for objective two , this was turned down by these two commissioners simply because they sliced off two percent of the application . |
| 20 | It was watered down to three half days . |
| 21 | D.F.C. , was shot down on 13 April 1941 by a Bf109E , and forced to ditch into the sea . |
| 22 | ATTEMPTING to unravel the fate of a Luftwaffe bomber that was shot down during 1940 . |
| 23 | A fortnight after Pedro 's plane plunged flaming into the sea , Angel was shot down behind British lines and escaped with a smashed kneecap and concussion . |
| 24 | Three United States citizens and a member of the Peruvian National Police involved in Peru 's anti-drug programme died near the village of Madre Mía in the Alto Huallaga valley on Jan. 12 , when their US-donated helicopter was shot down by alleged terrorists . |
| 25 | A fourth was shot down by concentrated anti-aircraft fire . |
| 26 | It happened twice at Bourn to my knowledge — once the fighter was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and the other time the rear gunner in the Lancaster was killed . |
| 27 | Karl Kühdorf survived , the only one of the more successful pilots to see the war out ; his final score stood at 19 in April 1945 , when he was shot down by Russian anti-aircraft fire and became a prisoner . |
| 28 | There are important languages only spoken in their countries of origin — Japanese , for instance , and Korean ; some Pacific languages unrelated to each other or to any other linguistic group on earth : Ainu , for example , which is not spoken outside Hokkaido Island in Japan and has no relationship at all to Japanese ; and Gilyak , which is used only by a very few people on Sakhalin Island — a place known only as being the birthplace of the actor Yul Brynner , and near where the Korean airliner KE 007 was shot down in 1983 . |
| 29 | Meanwhile Sgt. Harry Ayre recorded that he was shot down after ten minutes in the air . |
| 30 | Another version of this Trojan origin legend was written down in 727 by the author of the Liber Historiae Francorum . |