Sentence examples for down the gate from inspiring English sources

Some of the bereaved tried to break down the gate, others to scale the walls.

After breaking down the gate to the empty house, rioters pulled out two all-terrain vehicles and set them on fire.

The villagers tore down the gate in the nineteen-seventies, because they wanted to use the stones to build a road out.

He would pull down the gate so no one could see from the street and the parties would continue on well past 4am.

The palace itself fell barely 20 minutes after the marines knocked down the gate with an M-1 Abrams tank, Captain Basco said.

"Robert's conviction is that Ramsay MacDonald is going to smash down the gate and destroy Downton Abbey," says Bonneville. "He's not as bad as Carson [the butler played by Jim Carter], who really can't stand change.

But the way to preserve great education is to pull down the gates.

"At college in the 60s, when they were tearing down the gates, I was defending the gates.

[Bettison] said: 'We are trying to concoct a story that all the Liverpool fans were drunk and we were afraid they were going to break down the gates, so we decided to open them'".

He said that 'we are trying to concoct a story that all the Liverpool fans were drunk and we were afraid that they were going to break down the gates so we decided to open them'".

He adds that when he asks Chinese friends whether this is legal, they laugh and tell him that authorities periodically request that local governments take their gates down; the gates come down, but six months or a year later, they come back.