Sentence examples for had blown down from inspiring English sources

A neighbor's huge tree had blown down and knocked down power lines twenty feet from her house.

The roof of the picnic shelter had blown down and lay sprawled over the table, so we straggled to the staff quarters, dodging airborne coconuts.

Russian prosecutors opened a criminal investigation, but officials said the most likely cause of the fire was damaged electrical wiring or a short circuit, perhaps related to high winds that had blown down power lines and caused an electrical failure earlier in the evening.

I had left a fan on in the kitchen and the mail had blown down onto the floor, and the children were stepping on it with their feet wet from the sprinklers.

In a recent biography of Bell, "Reluctant Genius," Charlotte Gray writes: A large tree had blown down here, creating a natural and completely private belvedere, which [he] had dubbed his "dreaming place".

She pointed out new plantings: a black poplar to commemorate a row that had blown down the previous year; "Sammy's oak," a tree planted in honor of her grandson's birth; and the place she'd chosen for "Mikey's oak," a sapling that was originally an opening-night present from Williams to the director Anthony Page, whose production of "The Forest" was Williams's last acting job.

The tree is thought to have blown down in high winds.

All the stickers for and against have washed off the cars, and the signs have blown down".

A quarter century later it is said to have blown down in a violent storm, to be stolen by a sentry who only admitted this on his deathbed.

Strong winds have blown down electrical lines on the train system to Olympic Park, and have interfered with training at the rowing site; some races may have to be held single file instead of side by side, so boats do not knock into each other.

Many of the trees have blown down and others have died, but a few are still there-a cedar of Lebanon, some ginkgoes, a weeping beach that experts say is nearly as old as the mansion, and a number of English boxwoods, which John D. Rockefeller tried to buy for his estate at Pocantico Hill but August Belmont, who ran racing in those days, wouldn't sell.