Sentence examples for gates down from inspiring English sources

A woman who mistakenly drove her car onto the railroad tracks on Long Island last night was rescued from an oncoming train by a couple who plucked her from harm's way with the crossing gates down, alarm bells ringing and red lights flashing, the police said.

Then the blogs came along and tore the gates down, rolled over them and left a cloud of exhaust that choked hundreds of old-style news organizations and killed hundreds more.

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.

And indeed, many stores on Madison Avenue already had their gates down by 7 p.m.

When I was a little older, they took the gates down.

This strip of Fulton is dominated by 26 storefronts that specialize in black hair, but at this hour, most were dark, their gates down.

This entrance gate, down here.

We didn't have tickets so we broke a gate down and poured in.

The Gate down by the highway was to be drawn back to just a hundred and ten yards from our buildings.

We are driven by horse and wagon to the Gate, down at the paved road some two miles away.

"The well-worn path from the school gate down to the job centre and on to a life on benefits—has got to be rubbed away," said the prime minister.The welfare bill has fallen a bit as unemployment drops.