Example sentences of "down by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ron Letts as run down by a stolen truck outside the warehouse where he worked . |
| 2 | But one senior officer told us they felt let down by a legal system which denies them the right to detain an offender who 's cost 400 police hours in just 6 months . |
| 3 | In supporting the Bill at its Second Reading in the House of Commons , the Minister of State at the Home Office , Mr Alexander Lyon , explained the Bill 's overall purpose thus : ‘ If a man has committed an indiscretion that brings him before the courts and results in his being convicted and penalised , it must be right that after he has served the penalty and lived it down by a substantial period of good conduct thereafter , it should be without meaning for most people of good will . ’ |
| 4 | As it was , such girls as fancied themselves would leave their cubicle doors open , in the hope that tantalizing glimpses of leg and breast and buttock might be seen through the high and smoky glass , and once Clara , taking advantage of the convention that they were unobserved , walked the whole length of the changing room draped only from the waist down by a small towel , on the pretext of borrowing a safety pin . |
| 5 | I use an old 10in saw blade , pressed down by a clamping device . |
| 6 | Mother-of-five Margaret Morrison died early yesterday after she was mown down by a speeding Ford Escort in Premier Road , Sunderland . |
| 7 | Wendy and I were at once amused and embarrassed , but also concerned lest he be mown down by a passing train . |
| 8 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 9 | She was badly let down by a married man — Irish , I think . ’ |
| 10 | Amoco had appealed against the original decision , handed down by a lower court in 1990 , arguing that the plaintiffs had failed to prove Amoco 's negligence . |
| 11 | But the refuges of a mindless artistry which represents what is human as opposed to the social mechanism are being relentlessly hunted down by a schematic reason which compels everything to prove its significance and effect . |
| 12 | Alan Charleson , 52 , of Southport , Merseyside , was mowed down by a Romanian car as he stopped on the Hungarian border . |
| 13 | TIM BUZAGLO , the Woking hat-trick hero cruelly cut down by a Gazza-style knee injury , is back to boost their latest FA Cup odyssey at Kingfield tonight . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Tim Buzaglo , the Woking hat-trick hero cruelly cut down by a Gazza-style knee injury , is back to boost their latest FA Cup odyssey in tonight 's second round replay against Brighton tonight . |
| 15 | ‘ Brand New Snake ’ is hardly even a throwaway , while ‘ Brother Of the Brush ’ , a mock country song stemming from a great if bizarre idea — what if the painter , Paul Gaughain was a Texas cowpoke ? — was dragged down by a misconceived playfulness . |
| 16 | Cremonese dominated the first half and were unlucky not to get a penalty when winger Massika Lombardini was brought down by a joint tackle from Osman and Gerry Harrison . |
| 17 | The corresponding carbon dioxide emissions were down by a similar amount . |
| 18 | Between now and December , the company estimates that revenue will be down by a million pounds . |
| 19 | I do not rule out a Labour government , pinned down by a narrow majority , seeking to enact at least some of its social legislation through a supportive EC . |
| 20 | Hendrie was brought down by a clumsy Kevin Jobling challenge just inside the area . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , while working at Southall in 1936 , both were knocked down by a private car and seriously injured . |
| 22 | He knelt down by a familiar mound and after a moment 's hesitation yanked out the cross that he had placed at the head of the grave . |
| 23 | Indeed , they boasted proudly that retail electricity prices had risen more slowly than the retail price index in general : although their own tariffs had risen faster , average consumption had gone up and the extra kWh had been sold at the lower incremental charges of two-part or block tariffs , thus bringing the average domestic price in their first ten years down by a fifth in real terms . |
| 24 | A friend of mine married late and had seven extraordinarily happy years before her husband fell at her feet one day , struck down by a cerebral haemorrhage . |
| 25 | She was expecting to be pinned down by a concentrated bout of gunfire to give the German a chance to retreat but instead the second sniper swung his FN FAL on the unsuspecting German and gunned him down . |
| 26 | Well he , he took it down by a certain amount by putting onto VAT . |
| 27 | ‘ Close to Eden is a good looking film let down by a convoluted and complex plot in which nothing really happens . |
| 28 | Had he not been turned down by a local industrial company , things might have been different . |
| 29 | Happily , the stories live on , such as the visiting sportsman who , when boasting about his prowess with the gun , was easily put down by a local crofter : ‘ Man , that is nothing . |
| 30 | Indeed a mill design developed during the 1950s was turned down by a local planning enquiry : one of the aims of the CEGB 's current wind programme is to gain some feedback on public attitudes to modern designs . |