Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] down by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a strong thriller element to the novel , particularly in the last part , in which Piero is tracked down by the agents of what is portrayed as something close to a police or military state in the underground corridors of the prison-like block of flats where Charles lives and the fugitive has been hiding . |
| 2 | The horsemen of Ellyrion were pulled down by the foul beasts of Chaos . |
| 3 | Uncle Albert was squatting down by the flower bed doing a spot of weeding . |
| 4 | Similar proposals from the company for Hillington were turned down by the Scottish Secretary last March , after a public inquiry , on the grounds that the site is zoned for strategic industrial use . |
| 5 | The major features of local government in England and Wales were laid down by the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act and by three statutes at the end of the nineteenth century : the Local Government Acts of 1888 and 1894 , and the London Government Act , 1899 . |