Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] down in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Moyle himself was rescued after being shot down in the sea ( by Spitfires , in fact ) and was rescued by a fishing boat from North Berwick . |
| 2 | Shop windows were smashed , three police officers were injured , and a fan died after being run down in the street . |
| 3 | It is believed that the whole of Homer may have been passed on by oral tradition for several generations before being written down in the ninth century BC . |
| 4 | We are sending you Hurtard our serjeant , to cause oaks to be cut down in the said forest and carried to Winchester against Christmas , for our hearth . |
| 5 | Dot remembered how sometimes there used to be singing down in the shelters in the dark . |
| 6 | To straighten the data in figure 11.13 , for example , the curve has to be pulled down in the Y -direction and up in the X -direction ; linearity will therefore probably be improved by raising the Y variable to a power lower down on the ladder and/or by raising the X variable to a power higher up on the ladder . |
| 7 | Dostoevsky owed a lot to Molière who is to be met in the notebooks but not to be pinned down in the major fiction . |
| 8 | The explanation of these variations is that , in the Siamese cat , a lower skin temperature causes more pigmentation to be laid down in the growing hairs . |