Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The demonstrators were prepared to lie down in front of trucks carrying concrete for the foundations of the mast , at Cairn Papple , near Bathgate , in West Lothian . |
| 2 | After seven hours of rock hopping and scree climbing we were glad to slide down to the mist-covered mountain lake to pitch our tent . |
| 3 | Negotiating the allocation encountered problems ( some entrenched Liberal candidates were unwilling to step down in favor of SDP candidates ) but , once achieved , the local party responsible for fielding a candidate made its choice and that candidate was then endorsed by the other party . |
| 4 | It seemed to his slow , sleep-sodden mind , that there were hundreds of the horrid things and that they were all bearing down on him , a rushing curtain of green and gold and brown , with here and there wild , menacing eyes and reaching , clutching hands that were not hands at all , but nasty , skeletal twigs . |
| 5 | With that comparatively primitive system we were able to fly down to a height of 200 feet above the runway . |
| 6 | These were first written down in draft form , then refined on input to the database . |
| 7 | Pricing criteria were first laid down in detail in the 1967 ( second ) White Paper — prices should be related to ( long-run ) marginal costs , without arbitrary cross-subsidization , but should be sufficient to cover full accounting costs including the opportunity cost of capital . |
| 8 | It is important to realise that serious books of this kind , which form the backbone of the libraries and were first laid down by the Victorians , are most often those which are not taken out or ‘ issued ’ at all . |
| 9 | My wife and I had bought a home and we were ready to settle down into a comfortable middle-aged , middle-class rut . |
| 10 | For that matter , she might not have been far out in thinking him impudent ; his manner was innocence itself , his deference if anything delicately overdone , as though he were ready to come down off his high horse the moment she came down off hers , and did n't anticipate that the descent need be long delayed . |
| 11 | Thacker in P3733 were both shot down into the sea , while Flt.Lt . |
| 12 | I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other . |
| 13 | Kelly was due to step down after covering for the suspended Tracey against Arsenal last week . |
| 14 | Having looked at the growing success of the Editing for Industry awards and noted the fact that Alan Peaford was due to step down after a three-year stint in the chair , I decided to ask him to continue in the post for my year of office . |
| 15 | Course it 's worth bothering because a lot of young men that was unemployed come down to the school where I 'm the caretaker and they said , we know that you 're running short is there any chance of getting in on the scene ? |
| 16 | Missionary Kate McBeth wrote : ‘ For a few years at first Joseph was afraid to come down upon the Nez Perce reserve — afraid of the surrounding whites and because of the many indictments against him — but this fear wore off . |
| 17 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 18 | MacLachlan , victor of eight combats over the island , was fortunate to come down on Malta itself , rather than in the sea : ‘ For what seemed like hours I hung there , apparently motionless , with Malta still as far away as ever . |
| 19 | It was this loco that regularly worked the 17.09 two coach local from Chesterfield to Sheffield in 1962 , and after school it was customary to go down to the station and wait for it to arrive light engine . |
| 20 | He felt that such a clause would be unreasonable , since the ship was likely to break down in circumstances where return to the yard would be impracticable . |
| 21 | Norma , 55 , was unable to lie down for three months while her neck healed after a fall downstairs at a friend 's house . |
| 22 | He did n't have much time in his lodgings on the outskirts of the town , but when he was there he was able to lie down in his quiet , quiet room and totally relax . |
| 23 | When he was able to sit down for a brief breather , he received a telephone call from control saying that some twenty young bullocks had got loose on the railway line heading in his direction and would he keep a look out , with the thought that trains and cattle do not mix . |
| 24 | By then some of the hurt had lessened and he was able to look down at her scrawly handwriting and think : so she made it . |
| 25 | There was never any doubt in his mind that they would or could do so , and indeed he heard their shouts and as the next wave lifted him was able to look down upon them and see that they were luffing to the wind and preparing to beat back towards him . |
| 26 | He decided to invade England and landed his troops at Hastings on the south coast , and had established a good bridgehead before the news reached Harold and he was able to journey down from Yorkshire . |
| 27 | Although Elizabeth felt reluctant , she was thankful to settle down in bed , knowing that her mother would see to Edward and that her sister would gladly take on her share of the farm-work . |
| 28 | The Slav Muslims also had their oral traditions , the most celebrated of their ballads being the Hasanaginica , which was first written down in the eighteenth century . |
| 29 | On June 21 Jörg Haider , 40 , the populist leader of the Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) , was obliged to step down as provincial governor ( Landeshauptmann ) of Carinthia . |
| 30 | He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens . |