Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] been [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been sent down to arrange your indictments before a French civil court on all these charges . |
| 2 | the times I 've been done down in my life it 's been mainly by the white people ! |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been hosed down with cold water while standing naked in the snow , ’ said one man . |
| 4 | I 've been invited down to Plymouth for a party at the weekend . ’ |
| 5 | been coming down , ever since I 've been coming down here , he 's been in there |
| 6 | I mean in the periods that I 've been coming down and coming over , and it 's been a fairly regular basis , I should imagine every manager and director or university employee has put forward every conceivable way in which that particular building could be used . |
| 7 | And today I 've been feeling down . |
| 8 | I 've been knuckling down all the time . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I 've been let down for tonight . |
| 10 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 11 | It might help you to know that I have been writing down my dreams on waking , an accepted practice , I believe , in some circles , and perhaps of more use in my case than in some as I am by profession a writer . |
| 12 | Last night , Ena Gilmour , Raymond Gilmour 's mother , of Hawthorn Avenue , Johnstone , said : ‘ I will allow myself to be slightly optimistic , I do n't put it any stronger than that because I have been let down before and I do n't want to let myself go too far this time . ’ |
| 13 | Even if you 've been turned down elsewhere . |
| 14 | I also wonder how the system copes with changes to people 's incomes , er many people particularly in recession we heard that unemployment in Cambridge is now approaching ten percent and if you 've been turned down by the council , your council housing on your means test are you really going to go back to them at a time when you may be under a lot of stress with unemployment to have your circumstances reinvestigated , I very much doubt whether people do go back . |
| 15 | But joy of joys , the New Moon in Scorpio on the 29th and some stunning planetary aspects in early November should spark off some kind of personal revival and no matter how many times you have been let down or left in the lurch in the past , emotionally this can and ought to be one of the happiest times you have ever known . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been slowed down by the lack of a new engine but we 've found a good engine in the second pack they sent us — it needs a couple of hours of work on minor jobs , but if everything goes well we should have something ready for out-inspection later this afternoon . |
| 17 | We have been riding down what the Americans have called the ‘ Military Road to Absurdity ’ . |
| 18 | Since the beginning of March , we have been running down production at Warwick . |
| 19 | But Mills adds : ‘ We have been let down and treated badly . |
| 20 | And I know it 's difficult to get people motivated when they 've been hit down and hit down so often , er but and I do n't think that you could do er any great erm as as we said when we went into the flats , we did n't go in with any big , world shattering ideas of of causing a revolution or you know , of doing er putting on a big project or anything , it was actually to be with the people in their situation and gradually to help improve somehow , if we could . |
| 21 | So they 've been slimmed down . |
| 22 | They 've been closing down since I 've known them |
| 23 | The upsurge in interest in how small businesses are funded , reflects growing concern that they 've been let down by the banks , and the realization that they are the most significant source of employment as the country struggles to emerge from the recession . |
| 24 | But some traders believe they 've been let down . |
| 25 | My my s young bones they 've been pulled down with carrying these er er all these pails of water . |
| 26 | Their brains function ; they are conscious and are able to do a variety of things ; but they have been struck down , for example , by polio . |
| 27 | Which are quite frightening about opting out , erm some of you will remember that we 'd attended Welwyn Garden City on a picket a month ago , and erm as a result of campaigning there , within the hospital , with the press and the Council , they have been turned down so they are not being allowed to opt out . |
| 28 | Larger particles can not pass through until they have been chewed down to size . |
| 29 | They are , Hemingway writes , ‘ doing coolie labor for a top wage of $45 a month and they have been put down on the Florida Keys where they ca n't make trouble . |
| 30 | Are people going to have to take a medical before they can go down a street they have been going down all their lives ? ’ |