Example sentences of "have just be [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roman was hoping to treat Stephen for six months , but an application to the extension of his visa has just been turned down . |
| 2 | That home , however , has just been closed down as part of county hall 's budget cuts . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Everyone put on their coats and crowded to the gate with that mixture of patronage and curiosity reserved by old prisoners for those who had just been shot down . |
| 6 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 7 | Cos I wa , I was directly involved when I did a hell of a lot of work for Marconis , they sent me up to Glenrossi 's cos they got a micro er , electronics factory up there doing micro-chips , and one of the big coal mines up there had just been closed down and they said well , there 's no doubt about it , you know wha what we got ta do is re-train the miners ! |
| 8 | ( 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 ! ) |