Example sentences of "it had be [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winds ( see pages 8/9 for greater detail ) were of such force to blow a Douglas DC-6 and incredible 1.5 miles away from where it had been tied down . |
| 2 | St Osyth 's College of Education at Clacton-on-Sea proposed a BEd in 1969 and by December of the following year it had been turned down on the grounds that the College did not have an ‘ appropriate academic structure ’ , more thought about the objectives of the course ( it was for teachers of Home Economics ) was needed , the staff needed strengthening , the library expanding and laboratory facilities improving . |
| 3 | Now he never spoke of it-except once when they were passing , and the smell of it had been blown down on the wind . |
| 4 | Most of this made its way to the government , so that by February 1797 it had been run down to less than a sixth of this level . |
| 5 | Blix , in Libya for the opening of the first Arab conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy , visited Libya 's one declared nuclear reactor , the small Soviet-built Tajura research reactor outside Tripoli , and found that it had been shut down since June 1991 because spare parts were no longer available and most of the Soviet scientists who had worked there had gone home . |
| 6 | It had been shut down in 1991 after an International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) report said it was in " poor condition " [ see ED 48 ] . |
| 7 | We had barely finished congratulating ourselves and going round with the good news when Mrs Maddock 's little boy from the post office ran to tell us it had been torn down . |
| 8 | The budget was passed despite the fact that it had been voted down , earlier in the day , by the House of Councillors ( Upper House ) . |
| 9 | ‘ And it would n't have done that if it had been driven down to Streatley and back ? ’ |