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

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1 and they got chaff from the farms you see , they were sent down before the fishing and they filled that and they lay on that .
2 They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside .
3 They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish .
4 They were turned down by the Minister of Traffic and Waterways , Mrs Maij-Weggen , and it seemed that the idea , which was abandoned .
5 and it went up into those they were coming down in the minibus and er we stopped so the I ca n't remember where we stopped .
6 They were coming down from the Quarry , bigger engines .
7 During the Second World War they were taken down to the dark stone vaults beneath the Half Moon Battery and buried to prevent them falling into enemy hands .
8 Most of the airfields were bomber units , with the exception of Debden in Essex , a Mustang base , where they were talked down by the American Ground Controllers after exercising around in fog for some time .
9 Only when they were sitting down in the chop-house and Dr Neil had ordered them soup and rolls , followed by lamb chops with seasonal vegetables , and a glass of red wine each — ‘ Good for your shattered nerves , ’ he said gravely — and they were waiting for the soup to arrive did Sally-Anne have time to look about her .
10 In 1602 they were thrown down from the walls of Geneva which they had assaulted by surprise .
11 There they were going down to the car .
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