Example sentences of "have just [been] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That home , however , has just been closed down as part of county hall 's budget cuts . |
| 2 | But before the idea is condemned out of hand , let us remember that the price of petrol has just been brought down by 18p a gallon . |
| 3 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 4 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 5 | ( Alternatively , you could pretend that you have just been beamed down from outer space and that you do not understand a word that he is saying — which is at least partly true ! ) |