Example sentences of "had be [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first she had been surprised when a flask and a chunk of bread had been tossed down to her that first night , until she had remembered that de Raimes did not want her dead just yet . |
| 2 | Having survived the early years of childhood , unlike so many of his siblings , he had been struck down by that other malady which afflicted a tragically high proportion of those who lived on into teenage years and beyond . |
| 3 | And yet , in her case , it did not appear to him that she had been struck down by any kind of ordinary post-natal depression , as Adams 's next words seemed to confirm . |
| 4 | A sepoy with a green turban had had his spine shattered by The Spirit of Science ; others had been struck down by teaspoons , by fish-knives , by marbles ; an unfortunate subadar had been plucked from this world by the silver sugar-tongs embedded in his brain . |
| 5 | Aurangzeb had been struck down with a fever , and it was believed that he was beyond recovery . |
| 6 | The Guam law had been struck down by lower courts and the Supreme Court had refused to review these rulings . |
| 7 | Relationship between trade and between members of state , strictly competition and I said I 'd be the one erm relative case , just to demonstrate the course , Lord , erm I 've usefully used the time this morning to do a , a brief aden am moire of the point , the relevant photographs and the , just in case , if I can just hand that out ena enable me to , to speed through the admission , my Lord if I can just er take the through it and apart , my Lord paragraph five is triggered by an agreement which effects trade between members of states , er in windsurfing the court considered an argument that the causes and the contested agreement which had been struck down by the commission did not forward then article eighty five because they did not have that trade between members of states , the court replied , that argument must be rejected , article eighty five does not require that each and individual cause in the agreement should be capable of affecting into community trade , community law or competition applies to agreements between undertakings which may effect member of states , only if the agreement as a whole is capable of effecting trade is it necessary to exam which other clauses of the agreement which havers there object , let's just say or , or effect the restriction of competition . |
| 8 | Spinster Rosemarie , 52 , had been paralysed down her right side since birth . |
| 9 | Screams rang out from the galleries , where spectators had been gazing down instead of hiding . |
| 10 | Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist . |
| 11 | Its $25m reserve fund had been run down to around $8m after auditors , following a takeover of Heritage in October , found $13m missing from Heritage 's tills . |
| 12 | From London to Glasgow , from Cardiff to Newcastle , historic buildings have been restored and areas which had been run down have been transformed . |
| 13 | It made its first journey in 1883 but by the 1960s had been run down to an ordinary train . |
| 14 | In the face of falling demand for its Intel Corp i860 RISC compilers , The Portland Group , Wilsonville , Oregon , has shut its European office in Reading , Berkshire , which had been run down to two employees . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Soon a dozen or so hands were raised and after their names had been written down and details of what their duties would involve the meeting was brought to a close . |
| 17 | It had been lashing down when they 'd gone in . |
| 18 | Now he never spoke of it-except once when they were passing , and the smell of it had been blown down on the wind . |
| 19 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 20 | In usual government tradition , expectations had been played down so that any sign of agreement , no matter how small , could be hailed as a triumph . |
| 21 | By now in his eighties , Yusuf would never again return to Spain — he too had been worn down by long years of struggle to remove the thorn of El Cid from his side . |
| 22 | By mid and late Devonian times , the new mountains of Europe had been worn down and shallow shelf seas spread on to the continental margins . |
| 23 | Since that time the trees which had once enthicketed the hut had been lopped down and now the pyramidal vernal tent stood isolated among a company of stumps , like stepping-stones from the forest to Kitty 's lair . |
| 24 | It had to come from some distance away since over the centuries the trees and bushes on both sides of the river had been lopped down . |
| 25 | Since the Krays had been sent down , Mickey Ryan was the Number One . |
| 26 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 27 | He had been looking down into her face , lit by the candle he carried , but some sound had turned his eyes to the back of the hall . |
| 28 | By the Seventies this had been cut down , thanks to the pressure cooker , hotter ovens and the first electric gadgets , to an hour . |
| 29 | In Staffordshire the forest of Cannock had virtually ceased to exist by the end of Elizabeth 's reign , and in Kinver Forest only Iverley Hay remained in the hands of the Crown , and even there the deer had disappeared , and the woods for the most part had been cut down . |
| 30 | But now the power of the Lords had been cut down by an Act of Parliament , and they could only postpone the enactment of the Home Rule Bill for two years . |