Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Eton , the Southern trialists were whittled down to a 16-man squad to face Essex at Forest on 5 November . |
| 2 | Ray Angel put the final touches , adding echo and reverberation when the voices were relayed down to the studio floor . |
| 3 | In the ‘ rotunda ’ of Chicago Central of 1892–3 the main ribs of the vault were carried down to the floor . |
| 4 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |
| 5 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 6 | Then we were lifted down through a trap door and laid on a mattress . |
| 7 | But linguistic and other factors indicate that the oracles were written down by the 12th century BC . |
| 8 | Battling Dave Cannon sprayed a whole trailer-load of the cow muck over a council building after plans for his retirement bungalow were turned down for the fourth time . |
| 9 | They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish . |
| 10 | So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ . |
| 11 | Invitations were turned down on the grounds that ‘ we would only have to ask them back ’ . |
| 12 | They were turned down by the Minister of Traffic and Waterways , Mrs Maij-Weggen , and it seemed that the idea , which was abandoned . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The servants of Chaos were hunted down in the forests , and many wild and long-abandoned lands were re-settled . |
| 15 | When my right hon. Friend visits the United Nations , will he raise the issue of the RAF aircrew who were shot down over the Gulf , some of whom came from west Norfolk ? |
| 16 | It is said — and I have never been able to verify this figure — 70% , and not all were shot down by the fighters , although the majority of aircraft were . |
| 17 | The London theatres , which had for so long been a particular thorn in the side of Puritan moralists such as William Prynne , were closed down at the outbreak of the civil war and remained shut until the Restoration . |
| 18 | So , for example , many of the nurseries opened during the Second World War were closed down after the war . |
| 19 | All radio stations were closed down by the mutineers ; several ministers , including the Prime Minister , were reported to have been arrested and others were seeking asylum in foreign embassies . |
| 20 | The city refuse , the corpses of dogs , cats , beggars , lepers and even unwanted babies , were dumped in the Fleet ditch and , when the rains came , were washed down to the Thames . |
| 21 | The nails on the hand clutching the pen were bitten down to the quick — always a sign of savagery . |
| 22 | Bull O'Malley 's heavy eyebrows were drawn down in a confused frown . |
| 23 | Temperatures were measured down to a depth of 5 kilometres , where seasonal fluctuations have no effect . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Calcraft , and on another occasion Warnham , were invited down to a meeting in some tavern by the riverside where Mistress Rachel was waiting to talk to them . |
| 26 | British troops were bogged down in the Flanders quagmire . |
| 27 | It was a bitterly cold winter with thick snow ; both sides were bogged down in the Apennines from December to April . |
| 28 | These were narrowed down to a short list of 13 from which Jim 's was selected as best-overall . |
| 29 | He was a young man , probably no more than twenty ; his teeth were worn down to the stumps by rough ground corn , the tops so sliced through they might have been cut with a circular saw and the resulting surface polished with emery paper . |
| 30 | I was terribly embarrassed ; not only was I a convent girl but the skirts were worn down to the ankles and women just did n't show their legs in those days . |