Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] down [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone had searched the site , they would surely have found the tokens for they were only down an inch or two . |
| 2 | All the same , by the time he was halfway down the passage , she was coming back , staggering under the weight of a large , square , glass case . |
| 3 | As Miranda was halfway down the dark and narrow stairwell , she realised who it was who had so disarmed Madame that she had not scolded Marie-Angèle ( for not being downstairs to hand , to run the message up to Mlle Everard ) , or waited to reproach Miranda herself for allowing visitors to call without appointments and cause all this trouble to her hostess in the Hotel Davenant . |
| 4 | If Balliol was already down a back stair , he could mingle with this crowd of panic-stricken servants and nowise stand out , in his shirt and breeches , since others were in approximately the same state . |
| 5 | It might be , all his life , his worth or lack of it , that this was always down the line . |
| 6 | She somebody has fenced it off , she says I could see them far enough , she said , we always had that bit for our camp and it was further down the glen . |
| 7 | He used to stay a lot with the Broughs at Balnamenoch that was further down the glen . |
| 8 | The New Leicester Longhorn , which Bakewell had taken in hand , was half-way down the size table at 140cm in the bull and 125cm in the cow . |
| 9 | He was half-way down the hatch with Sammy in his arms when he remembered something . |
| 10 | She had brought detective novels and thrillers and cursed her hectic reading speed : only the second day and she was half-way down the pile . |
| 11 | The camp was actually down a farm track to one side of the base . |