Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was duly slapped down by my more knowledgeable tectonic seniors , and tried to forget the brief publication in question , but later work has now led me to suspect that I might have been right after all . |
| 2 | The cause was eventually tracked down to a previously unknown bacterium , given the name Legionella pneumophila . |
| 3 | ‘ Once , Ndah was clean through and he was blatantly brought down by Mike Marsh , who got only a yellow card . |
| 4 | This will be the reason for the oddity of ( 54 ) where one such basic property is related to its noun through assignment , by contrast with the normality of ( 55 ) where it is given as one of the initial identifying properties of the subject entity ( there is obviously no difference of truth-value between the two ) : ( 54 ) ? a ladle which was heavy came down on his skull ( 55 ) a heavy ladle came down on his skull Thus , other things being equal we expect properties of such basic sorts to be used predominantly for identification by ordinary qualification . |
| 5 | Sometimes she was so brought down by one of his pronouncements that she had to change completely . |
| 6 | I do n't know , Victorine said : it was all pulled down from one day to the next , and you know it happened during the war , everything was topsy-turvy then . |
| 7 | This was all washed down with a bottle of red wine . |
| 8 | But the inherent danger in adopting the confrontational approach was illustrated in 1980 when an undercover SAS officer was brutally gunned down by IRA killers as he stormed a Belfast hide-out . |
| 9 | But Peter Hickton was only slowed down for a moment . |
| 10 | She was being towed to the breakers when she began to take in water ( probably through the conning tower hatch which was only lashed down for the tow ) and sank . |
| 11 | There I was congratulating myself on surviving the winter without so much as a sniffle , when I was suddenly struck down without warning . |
| 12 | By mid-March the operation was literally bogged down in mud and confusion , allowing the Republicans to mount a counter-offensive . |
| 13 | Divided up into three groupings , the A , B , and C special constabularies , according to diminishing power , responsibility , and time commitment , the force was soon cut down to class B only and these came to be known as the ‘ B Specials ’ , a thoroughly armed , militant , semi-private , and sectarian army . |
| 14 | My initial perceptions of a college of further education might have begun on a lofty plane , but I was soon brought down to earth with a bump . |
| 15 | Hayling was a brilliant pupil at school and was soon marked down as Oxbridge material . |
| 16 | We lost her twice through faulty intelligence as she moved westward , but she was finally tracked down by our shore controls at Falmouth where she was apparently undergoing a mini refit . |
| 17 | The item was keenly competed for by two telephone bidders but it was finally knocked down for £790 to a bidder in the saleroom . |
| 18 | She was not sick in the mornings and when occasionally nausea swept over her it was easily put down to fatigue , or to something she had eaten . |
| 19 | Happily , the stories live on , such as the visiting sportsman who , when boasting about his prowess with the gun , was easily put down by a local crofter : ‘ Man , that is nothing . |
| 20 | Toshiba and Hitachi have the cushion of their heavy electrical divisions to fall back on — indeed Hitachi was largely dragged down by its mainframe business and it must be wondering how much longer that game will be worth the candle . |
| 21 | Toshiba and Hitachi have the cushion of their heavy electrical divisions to fall back on — indeed Hitachi was largely dragged down by its mainframe business and it must be wondering how much longer that game will be worth the candle . |
| 22 | In the early period of the application of the formula , Oxford RHA was rapidly brought down to RAWP target levels and Merseyside RHA brought up . |
| 23 | I can not understand how you , who appreciate so much Russian writers of the Nineteenth Century , can combine this appreciation with a complete ignorance of the obshchestvennoe dvizhenie ( liberal movement ) that started in the time of Alexander I , was conspicuously present throughout the century ( despite absolutism ) , and was deliberately played down by the Leninists and Trotskyists for propaganda reasons . |
| 24 | Her mind , like the women in her house , was still laid down in strata , each virtually impermeable to the others . |
| 25 | Received opinion , based unduly on the word of sister Elisabeth , has it that Nietzsche began with the idea of a large book on Greek culture which , under Wagner 's influence and again its author 's real inclinations , was gradually whittled down to a book on Greek tragedy — and Wagner . |
| 26 | This was then immediately scrubbed onto a piece of scrap paper until the charge of paint began to run out ; at that point a thin scumble was quickly put down by stabbing with the brush tip onto the background colouring . |
| 27 | The contract was quickly sold down to a more sustainable 2600 level . |
| 28 | Werner Gerhardt , which was believed to have been the victim of A.A. fire by the Germans , but was probably shot down by Whittingham , and another He111 from 4/KG 26 which crash-landed on return with a dead gunner . |
| 29 | It was later written down in two books called the Mishnah and the Talmud . |
| 30 | LEFT The first Opera House in the Haymarket , London , which was later burnt down in 1789 . |