Sentence examples for had downed from inspiring English sources

The miners had downed tools in protest and demanded a fair wage.

Builders on top of the Bundestag had downed tools and got out their smartphones.

Mr. Hazelwood, an alcoholic, had downed five double vodkas on the night of the disaster, according to witnesses.

He guessed that Mr. Villanueva had downed six to nine beers, but Mr. Figueroa said that he did not appear drunk.

The PCA's head, Jorge Quijano, said the consortium had downed tools the very next morning with the project only 70% completed.

Some athletes, particularly in Europe, long had downed nonalcoholic beer during hard training, claiming that it helped them to recover, but no science existed to support the practice.

The Syrian army said it had downed one Israeli plane and hit another but the Israeli military insisted the safety of its aircraft had not been compromised.

The sources of the protein in the different studies had varied, as had the amounts and the times of day when people had downed them.

Friday night was "like a Hogmanay shift", he observes, noting on his train into Glasgow that one man had downed a bottle of white wine by 10.30am.

Georgia, which said today it had downed 10 Russian aircraft and destroyed up to 30 tanks, maintains it is holding Tskhinvali.

He said the group had downed two bottles of whisky, before he began drinking beer on the night of 7 August.