Example sentences of "been run down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 2 | Its $25m reserve fund had been run down to around $8m after auditors , following a takeover of Heritage in October , found $13m missing from Heritage 's tills . |
| 3 | It made its first journey in 1883 but by the 1960s had been run down to an ordinary train . |
| 4 | In the face of falling demand for its Intel Corp i860 RISC compilers , The Portland Group , Wilsonville , Oregon , has shut its European office in Reading , Berkshire , which had been run down to two employees . |
| 5 | Most of this made its way to the government , so that by February 1797 it had been run down to less than a sixth of this level . |
| 6 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |
| 7 | Ken Gillance , defending , said Lamont was not connected with vice but Welsh told him the previous day she had almost been run down by one of Roth 's friends . |