Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Not that it was slow down in the sense of Do n't go too fast physically .
2 Hoomey was splashing away on his third length when Nutty , getting bored , got up to fetch a toffee out of her blazer pocket where it was tossed down under the cupressus hedge .
3 It was played down by the band and manager Steve Harrison , who is paranoid about being seen to ‘ cash in ’ , ‘ manipulate ’ or any of those other snidey cracks that godhead success usually brings .
4 It was played down by the band and manager Steve Harrison , who is paranoid about being seen to ‘ cash in ’ , ‘ manipulate ’ or any of those other snidey cracks that godhead success usually brings .
5 Mike and I saw a a very young child being washed at a tube well , those guiding us round the site were very impressed by this , the child was rather perplexed and surprised as normally it was taken down to the river to be washed .
6 It was laid down by the Court of Appeal in the following case .
7 It was laid down in the 1991 Duopoly Review that it should not be allowed to offer entertainment until at least 1997 , when the situation will again be reviewed , and possibly for another three years after that .
8 Could this be your ring ? it was found down by the river with an ear-pick and a stiletto .
9 It was burned down on the second anniversary of the Falklands War .
10 in Poultry , City of London : it was burned down in the Great Fire of 1666 , and subsequently rebuilt .
11 Sceptics will no doubt dismiss Tito 's order ( even though it was issued down through the full chain of command ) and the assurances given pursuant to it by the Yugoslav negotiators at Bleiburg as mere window-dressing , and they may be right .
12 The cassock had a thin hood , held in place over the attendant 's head and face by what looked like the brim from an old and worn red hat ; it was squeezed down over the attendant 's head , the top of the hood showing through where the hat 's crown should have been .
13 Silver of this period is especially rare as much of it was melted down in the Revolution or to fund wars .
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