Sentence examples for were bolted down from inspiring English sources

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This time last year six of the eight were bolted down and, unless you are from Ulster or Munster, things are coming to the boil quite nicely.

The televisions were bolted down; the phones didn't work; not even the toilets flushed with regularity.

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Supper must be bolted down before the ice cream, wrapped in newspaper, melts.

But his conversation is bolted down by riveting insights into a damaged sport that could only come from an insider.

Each metal pole had to be bolted down, rewired and timed before the Wednesday morning rush hour.

Seats were still being bolted down and whatever pyrotechnics the Nets intend to unleash are being saved for the team's regular season opener, against the Knicks.

The floodwater had risen 10 feet inside the museum, so the objects inside cases that were bolted to the floor were floating in a mix of mud and water, but the objects in cases that hadn't been bolted down had been lifted up and smashed.

One of the lights burned out, and while it was being fixed, Kubrick unwound himself from the camera, spotted me staring open-mouthed at the top of the centrifuge, where the furniture of the crew's dining quarters was fastened to the ceiling, and said, "Don't worry — that stuff is bolted down".

Kingsley Amis, author of the first post-Ian Fleming 007 novel and the first critical appraisal, The James Bond Dossier, coined the still useful term "The Fleming effect", which he describes as "the imaginative use of information, whereby the pervading fantastic nature of Bond's world, as well as the temporary, local, fantastic elements in the story, are bolted down in some sort of reality".

The actual structure is bolted down on the floor with a pre-existing stress in the skeletal structure.

Taking out a stereo that is bolted down may be tougher to remove but it is possible.

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