Example sentences of "had [adv] [be] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had also been discovered that ANT , which had since been closed down , had been preparing other illegal export deals worth nearly US$900,000,000 involving items including valuable metals , uncut diamonds and classified aviation equipment . |
| 2 | And like sheep they had eventually been ridden down by soldiers as her husband had been ridden down at Peterloo , the crowd dispersed and then hunted over the open fields like running hares , so that of Luke 's companions one had crawled into a hedge with a leg that might have been mangled in a bear trap and had bled t death there ; two or three others had taken refuge in haystacks and barns ; two had been arrested and sentenced to hard labour . |
| 3 | The two girls were both on night duty and they waited in vain all night , hoping against hope that Steve and his crew had perhaps been forced down somewhere , but by the time dawn came up and there was still no news , they realised he was just another casualty . |
| 4 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |
| 5 | By the time the report was published , three out of ten of the inspected prisons had already been shut down . |
| 6 | For cost reasons , the original concept had already been scaled down since 1988 to include only 150 stations — the balance of the deterrent being made up by ground-based anti-missile rockets . |
| 7 | While the original purchase price was £28.8 million , the property had already been written down in the balance sheet to take account of the general fall in values . |
| 8 | Since March 1992 , 26 death sentences against Islamic fundamentalists had already been handed down , including seven delivered by a criminal court in Bouira on June 3 and 4 [ see also pp. 38840 ; 38936 ] . |
| 9 | Everyone put on their coats and crowded to the gate with that mixture of patronage and curiosity reserved by old prisoners for those who had just been shot down . |
| 10 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 11 | Cos I wa , I was directly involved when I did a hell of a lot of work for Marconis , they sent me up to Glenrossi 's cos they got a micro er , electronics factory up there doing micro-chips , and one of the big coal mines up there had just been closed down and they said well , there 's no doubt about it , you know wha what we got ta do is re-train the miners ! |
| 12 | When Menelik founded Addis Ababa in 1889 the countryside had been forested with juniper and wild olive , but these had soon been cut down for firewood and building material , whereupon Menelik announced that he was going to move his capital for the third time . |
| 13 | Just as he could have received promotion over the years , but had always been turned down in favour of someone younger . |
| 14 | She said that the roof on Wellworths had also been brought down . |
| 15 | The sun westered as she passed the gutted farm that had now been pulled down . |
| 16 | This had reportedly been watered down after Russia threatened to veto a proposal to suspend the FRY from all UN bodies , demanding instead that it be merely excluded from the General Assembly . |
| 17 | Ken Gillance , defending , said Lamont was not connected with vice but Welsh told him the previous day she had almost been run down by one of Roth 's friends . |
| 18 | Bootle FC chairman Frank Doran told magistrates the adverts had initially been taken down after a warning from council inspectors . |
| 19 | Or perhaps another of the cai living quarters had again been burned down by coolies in one of the other villages ? |
| 20 | ‘ The developer is seeking the release for housing of a one field width strip parallel to the Glebe Road which had previously been turned down by planners . |
| 21 | The bushes had recently been cut down ‘ to about a third of their former dimension ’ . |
| 22 | She is the Santa Maria del Sud and had recently been brought down under tow from the Argentine naval base near Buenos Aires where she has been undergoing a complete refit . |
| 23 | I planned an overnight stay at the Drumrunie Hotel , marked on the map and ten miles along the road , but when I tried to telephone to book a room , the operator told me that the hotel had recently been burnt down . |
| 24 | He could also play a variety of instruments ( and passed on this ability to his children ) and knew songs and melodies which had never been written down — just passed on from ear to ear via generations of Dalesmen . |