Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [adj] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I just want the same character and fight we showed when we were 3-0 down to Chesterfield . |
| 2 | It happened after we were 2–0 down with 15 mins left ! |
| 3 | He said : ‘ We were three down after the first leg against Stuttgart , but there was a great feeling we could do it . |
| 4 | Ferguson admitted : ‘ We showed a wee bit of nervousness in the first half , the sort of anxieties that were there when we were three down against Everton . ’ |
| 5 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 6 | they were all down with it |
| 7 | By the end of that Test they were two down with two to play , and it is difficult to think of any England tour where such a low point had been reached . |
| 8 | Mowden Park lost 24–10 at Blyth , where they were 16–0 down at half-time before scrum half Tot Teasdale set up tries for Gary Edwards and Dave Wray . |
| 9 | They were 10-15 down at half-time . |