Example sentences of "and was [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sidekick froze , and was cut down by fire from all quarters . |
| 2 | At the fourteenth siege of Tor Alessi he charged right into the heart of the Dwarf infantry and was cut down by King Gotrek who snatched the Phoenix crown from his corpse and took it in payment for the Elves ' insolence . |
| 3 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 4 | Though popular with his contemporaries , and a fine sportsman , gaining a tennis half-blue at Cambridge , Horne did not have a spectacular academic career and was sent down in December 1927 . |
| 5 | Apparently the club lost its license and was shut down after a series of lawsuits stemming from car accidents involving drunk punters — and under American law , bar staff who serve drunk drivers are liable to get hauled up in front of the local beak of those people are later involved in accidents . |
| 6 | Well , at about half-seven he 'd gone into a restaurant in St Giles ‘ , Browns ; had a nice steak , with a bottle of red wine ; left at about half-nine — and was strolling down to The Randolph when he 'd met Mrs Sheila Williams , just outside the Taylorian , as she was making for the taxi-rank . |
| 7 | Lower bruised his left leg and was stood down for the rest of the afternoon by the course doctors . |
| 8 | He reckoned he had picked the wrong waves at the Hard Rock at Sunset , and was worn down by the sheer hard labour of surfing so long in such arduous conditions . |
| 9 | He appeared to be dozing because he did not notice her approach , nor open his eyes , until she had parted the branches and was looking down at him . |
| 10 | Maybe it was because she had the advantage of the high ground and was looking down on me . |
| 11 | While so engaged an Italian transport aircraft , variously identified as a Caproni Ca310 or a Savoia S.81 , was intercepted and was shot down by the three Beaufighter pilots , Sqn.Ldr . |
| 12 | Payton , failed to return and was shot down by the A.A. defences at Hassani . |
| 13 | First machine was from 8/KG21 , coded ‘ U5+DS ’ and was shot down by F/L H Ferris on August 13 . |
| 14 | Second aircraft was from 3/KG2 and was shot down by F/S F W Higginson , F/L P S Weaver and Sgt C Whitehead , flying Hurricanes of 56 Sqn . |
| 15 | Freddie Crewe , of Maidstone , who left the RAF as a squadron leader in 1962 , flew Hurricanes and Spitfires in the war and was shot down near Brest on 3 August 1943 . |
| 16 | " I am going down , " she whispered , and before Maria Candida could stop her , had gathered her skirts and was running down to the hall . |
| 17 | She looked at her sister , who had grown very still and was staring down at her hands . |
| 18 | The alternative to the Protocols as a base to the conspiracy theory was the revival of the French counter-revolutionary tradition , which had been developed in the first articles in the ‘ Cause of World Unrest ’ disclosures in the Morning Post in July 1920 , and was handed down to posterity in more permanent form in Nesta Webster 's version of world history . |
| 19 | The tower was soon in the way of traffic and was taken down by Mowlem who brought it , minus the clock , to Swanage by sailing ship where it was re-erected in 1868 in the grounds of The Grove , later greatly extended as the Grosvenor Hotel , and now to be redeveloped as marine residences . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) Stephen Small raced away from a defender and was brought down from behind inside the area — an indirect free kick for obstruction instead of a penalty . |
| 21 | Steve Warwick scored the second goal and was brought down in the area , enabling Alton to get their third in a 3–1 home win . |
| 22 | It stood unused for some time and was burnt down by vandals in 1970 . |
| 23 | He had one fight in 1984 and was knocked down for the first time in his career . |
| 24 | The officer had quickly positioned herself with one foot on either side of Madeleine 's head , and was crouched down over her face . |