Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelly was due to step down after covering for the suspended Tracey against Arsenal last week . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Norma , 55 , was unable to lie down for three months while her neck healed after a fall downstairs at a friend 's house . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens . |
| 19 | Once again , tolerance decreased and hostility increased quite markedly with age ; and ( with the exception of " the rather anomalous group who call themselves upper working class " ) the same was true going down in social class scales . |
| 20 | The idea of giving a backward horse time , of not over-racing his less tough charges , of giving the vet the benefit of the doubt when he said a leg was liable to break down on hard ground — these were alien concepts to Harry Short . |
| 21 | The signal for the collapse of the regime was Mr Najibullah 's announcement last month that he was ready to step down in favour of a United Nations-appointed interim committee . |
| 22 | PETER Swales announced today that he was ready to stand down as chairman of trouble-torn Manchester City . |