Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] down [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She explored the place where his manhood lay and he , in turn , used experienced fingers to set alight that part of her where carnal longings had been damped down until that moment . |
| 2 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 3 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 4 | If so , then it was a case of sweet revenge for Whittingham , who had been shot down by this unit over England during 1940 ! |
| 5 | The story of the blacksmith 's involvement in the Battle of Drumclog can not be substantiated by any written record of the battle but it has been handed down through many generations of people in the Irvine Valley and spoken of with pride . |
| 6 | Flood-stories have been handed down in many languages from most parts of the world . |
| 7 | The lessons are recorded so that the trainee 's performance can be reviewed and measured against criteria which have been set down for that skill . |
| 8 | 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 . |