Example sentences of "was [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 2 | Mother Francis was kneeling down beside Frank Hegarty 's mother . |
| 3 | He was kneeling down by the wall holding out his hand to me . |
| 4 | On cold january nights , they camped out on platforms for the last experiences of ‘ Whistler ’ haulage , as the class of two hundred was whittled down to just one , the rebuilt , pioneer D200 . |
| 5 | He was on a short-list of 15 , and it was whittled down to five . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 7 | This was whittled down to three for this event , including me . |
| 8 | Lisa 's frankness was quite beguiling , and , despite the fact that her world was tumbling down about her , Folly found herself liking her assistant more and more . |
| 9 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 10 | During the refurbishment period , the kiln was stripped down to its basic frame , shot-blasted and painted . |
| 11 | The easiest way of solving that problem was to go down to Victoria station . |
| 12 | The plan was to go down to the south coast and camp . |
| 13 | He was to go down to the Supersight factory for some practice with Harley and was then to go with him to a couple of the Continental tournaments . ’ |
| 14 | Priscilla Savage remembers her mother telling her that she was placed down in the shade between two bundles of corn in an angle of the harvest field , and she was fed during the brief intervals her mother won from the gavelling . |
| 15 | Her greatest luxury in life was to sit down with baked beans on toast and watch television . |
| 16 | Three weeks later , on the day I became Prime Minister , my first impulse was to sit down in the study which had been Harold 's and write him a letter of appreciation and grateful thanks . |
| 17 | Her initial action on reaching her room , however , was to sit down by the telephone and to try and concentrate her attention on what she should do now . |
| 18 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 19 | Guy was gazing down at her , an expression of such tenderness in his face that Isabel felt her heart shake . |
| 20 | Ruth blinked open her eyes and Fernando was gazing down at her , a new Fernando , one she did n't know any more . |
| 21 | President Arístides Maria Pereira announced at an extraordinary congress of the PAICV on July 26 , 1990 , that he was stepping down as party leader as a first step towards the ending of one-party rule , declaring that the President had to be above party politics . |
| 22 | On May 16 Karl Otto Pöhl , 61 , announced that he was stepping down as president of the Deutsche Bundesbank , although his second eight-year term [ see p. 35724 ] was not due to expire until end-1995 . |
| 23 | It was announced on Sept. 19 that a senior Exco member , Dame Lydia Dunn , was stepping down as head of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and would be succeeded on Oct. 1 by Victor K. Fung , chairman and chief executive officer of Prudential Asia Investments Ltd. |
| 24 | In December 1991 had Jawara announced that he was stepping down as President , a position which he had held since independence . |
| 25 | Labour demanded his resignation after the LAS Board chairman , Jim Harris , announced he was stepping down as an inquiry blamed management failures over the £1.5 million computer-aided despatch system ( CAD ) . |
| 26 | Court Four of the Royal Courts of Justice in London was packed with judges and barristers to hear the support lent to Lord Lane , who announced in February that he was stepping down at the age of 73 , 18 months before the compulsory retirement age for judges . |
| 27 | One day , when the lord was stepping down from his carriage , which he drove himself , he was shot dead outside his gate . |
| 28 | I was marched down to A block [ punishment ] . |
| 29 | Ahead there was space , but her foot was pressed down to the floor and the car would n't go any faster . |
| 30 | Subject-matter , in the Skinnerian teaching machine , was broken down into small steps which built upon one another into a great complexity , the student making successive responses and receiving the reinforcement of immediate confirmation at each stage . |