Example sentences of "be [verb] down [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feelings of anger and bitterness towards another person , as well as guilt , which have been pushed down and never dealt with , may also cause depression . |
| 2 | Trevor Wishart ( 1977 ) , for example , stresses the abstracting , analytic properties of notation , which reduce the infinity of sound to a small number of discrete , systematically permutational elements , limit our very perception and conception of music to what can be written down and rationally described , and result in an idealist account of the relationship between the ‘ real ’ music in the score and the performance — an inevitably less than perfect representation . |
| 3 | The way the sequencer has been set up is to allow three voices and one drum track to be laid down and then used as a backing for either the regular guitar sound or another synth sound . |
| 4 | A nurse has been knocked down and seriously injured by her own car after she tried to stop a man stealing it . |
| 5 | The materials were broken down and thoroughly mixed and were then led into a " back " where the slurry remained for several weeks while the water was gradually drained off . |
| 6 | Hamilton in Z2901 being shot down and critically wounded by Graf von Kageneck ; he died shortly afterwards . |
| 7 | The flag stays down , he 's wide on the left hand side , goes to close him down , holds on , he 's on the edge of the area , he shoots , and the shot is charged down and then pushed behind , no rescues it , good work by , sheer determination by the Notts goalkeeper , acting almost as an extra defender . |
| 8 | The next day he was shot down and badly injured . |
| 9 | Two hundred metres below the summit Jean Afassanieff announced to Doug Scott and Sustad that he was going down and immediately turned round . |
| 10 | Wat Tyler was struck down and fatally injured by the sword of the loyal Lord Mayor of London , whose name is commemorated in time-honoured fashion . |