Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] down in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The servants of Chaos were hunted down in the forests , and many wild and long-abandoned lands were re-settled . |
| 2 | British troops were bogged down in the Flanders quagmire . |
| 3 | It was a bitterly cold winter with thick snow ; both sides were bogged down in the Apennines from December to April . |
| 4 | An early regard for the quality of life was shown when the walls of the medieval town were pulled down in the early nineteenth century . |
| 5 | and it went up into those they were coming down in the minibus and er we stopped so the I ca n't remember where we stopped . |
| 6 | Guidelines in this area were laid down in the case of Marshall v Harland & Wolff Ltd ( 1972 ) . |
| 7 | Its weakness was its technical conservatism ; although in 1880 the Admiralty agreed to reintroduce breechloading guns on heavy ships , the armoured cruisers Impérieuse and Warspite , which were laid down in the same year , were still designed to carry a full spread of sail . |
| 8 | The foundations of modern archaeology were laid down in the 17th century , and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries emphasis was put on the recording of archaeological monuments , initially as part of general topographical works , but eventually as part of a study of the monuments themselves . |
| 9 | It is only fair to put on record , so that the student of war today can trace Trenchard 's early thinking , by recalling that the Harris war aircraft were laid down in the mid-thirties . |
| 10 | Nobly , you saved my life , and were struck down in the doing of it . |
| 11 | He had pictures in his office that he would show me of well-equipped armed bands that he said were taken down in the middle of Nicaragua . |
| 12 | The five Annamese , grunting with pain continued stumbling and staggering around the circle in grotesque imitation of bounding hares while the next group of victims were thrown down in the dirt . |
| 13 | Only when they were sitting down in the chop-house and Dr Neil had ordered them soup and rolls , followed by lamb chops with seasonal vegetables , and a glass of red wine each — ‘ Good for your shattered nerves , ’ he said gravely — and they were waiting for the soup to arrive did Sally-Anne have time to look about her . |
| 14 | Priscilla Savage remembers her mother telling her that she was placed down in the shade between two bundles of corn in an angle of the harvest field , and she was fed during the brief intervals her mother won from the gavelling . |
| 15 | Three weeks later , on the day I became Prime Minister , my first impulse was to sit down in the study which had been Harold 's and write him a letter of appreciation and grateful thanks . |
| 16 | But a gate was broken down in the frustration and many spectators , mostly from Cardiff , got in without paying . |
| 17 | But uncle was to creep down in the night and abuse the little girl he was giving shelter to . |
| 18 | He 'd probably never been to Brixton before — I could tell that from the way he was sinking down in the back of Armstrong the farther along Effra Road we got . |
| 19 | This produced the perfect job , and a metal copy was made down in the tool-room . |
| 20 | She was squatting down in the photograph and Sabrina estimated her to have been a little over five feet with a slender petite figure and a pale , milky complexion . |
| 21 | Erm with chimney sweeper was waiting down in the high street he was waiting there whoa said Mr to the donkey , the donkey was wondering probably whether he was so without listening to a word of warning he jumped on him |
| 22 | Not that it was slow down in the sense of Do n't go too fast physically . |
| 23 | There were reports during January that the Rome accord , the partial ceasefire negotiated on Dec. 1 , 1990 , to cover the Beira and Limpopo corridors , was breaking down in the face of persistent attacks by the rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) . |
| 24 | Silver of this period is especially rare as much of it was melted down in the Revolution or to fund wars . |
| 25 | It seemed that the detailed pattern of the embryo was laid down in the egg and became partitioned during cleavage , thus supporting Weissman 's claim . |
| 26 | Fermanagh , Armagh and Tyrone show that a thick and extensive Carboniferous sequence , including Westphalian Coal Measures , was laid down in the ‘ Midland Valley ’ to the southwest of Lough Neagh , and must be expected to extend northeastwards . |
| 27 | The unusual , possibly unique , method of election was laid down in the statutes by John Dakyn . |
| 28 | This time he had shifted his ground ; not a word about the criticisms of Hailsham and Macmillan which we had agreed to delete , nor about untoward consequences in the Arab world : this time it was ‘ breach of confidential relationships ’ contrary to what was laid down in the Report of the Privy Council on Ministerial Memoirs . |
| 29 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 30 | It was laid down in the 1991 Duopoly Review that it should not be allowed to offer entertainment until at least 1997 , when the situation will again be reviewed , and possibly for another three years after that . |