Example sentences of "they [verb] be [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bones released from the scats as they decayed were washed down this gully , and this resulted in the separation of two distinct bone assemblages : the one remaining at the top of the hill consisted of about 60 per cent dental and jaw fragments while the one washing down the hill consisted of more than 70 per cent vertebrae . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's A Game ’ , ‘ Money Honey ’ , ‘ Shang A Lang ’ and , um , a lot of padding from the Rollers ' post ‘ 77 career after they 'd been shot down in flames , plucked , shucked , gutted , roasted , eaten , shat out and buggered in the back of the neck and then locked in the attic with Mad Auntie Maude from Nottingham for two weeks by the ultimate manufactured band , the Sex Pistols . |
| 3 | So they 'd been sent down into the rock no doubt still with orders to draw blood from the air . |
| 4 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 5 | Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it . |
| 6 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 7 | Well me Auntie Jean and me Mum got passed once , like they 'd been going down and scrubbing it from side at bath and everything . |
| 8 | And I know it 's difficult to get people motivated when they 've been hit down and hit down so often , er but and I do n't think that you could do er any great erm as as we said when we went into the flats , we did n't go in with any big , world shattering ideas of of causing a revolution or you know , of doing er putting on a big project or anything , it was actually to be with the people in their situation and gradually to help improve somehow , if we could . |
| 9 | So they 've been slimmed down . |
| 10 | They 've been closing down since I 've known them |
| 11 | The upsurge in interest in how small businesses are funded , reflects growing concern that they 've been let down by the banks , and the realization that they are the most significant source of employment as the country struggles to emerge from the recession . |
| 12 | But some traders believe they 've been let down . |
| 13 | My my s young bones they 've been pulled down with carrying these er er all these pails of water . |
| 14 | Four in five employees surveyed believed they had been turned down for jobs because they were too old , even though they had the right skills . |
| 15 | These small rows of houses look as if they had been dumped down like baggage on a railway platform while the owner goes for a sandwich . |
| 16 | This did not prevent subsequent British complaints that they had been let down by Washington . |
| 17 | But Coun. Robson said residents felt they had been let down by the original developers of the site and by Leech . |
| 18 | They had been guided down to Sidi Barrani by Lieutenant Timpson of the LRDG . |
| 19 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |
| 20 | Their brains function ; they are conscious and are able to do a variety of things ; but they have been struck down , for example , by polio . |
| 21 | Which are quite frightening about opting out , erm some of you will remember that we 'd attended Welwyn Garden City on a picket a month ago , and erm as a result of campaigning there , within the hospital , with the press and the Council , they have been turned down so they are not being allowed to opt out . |
| 22 | Larger particles can not pass through until they have been chewed down to size . |
| 23 | They are , Hemingway writes , ‘ doing coolie labor for a top wage of $45 a month and they have been put down on the Florida Keys where they ca n't make trouble . |
| 24 | Are people going to have to take a medical before they can go down a street they have been going down all their lives ? ’ |