Example sentences of "go down [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cold may also go down onto the chest with lots of secretions , coughing and rattling of mucus . |
| 2 | From the time that I was about ten , I used to look forward to Mr. Golding 's visits , for sometimes on never-to-be-forgotten occasions he would let me go down into the cellar with him . |
| 3 | ‘ Would never go down to the cellars like everyone else when the air-raid siren went . |
| 4 | Later , after leisurely baths , we would go down to the bar for our aperitifs and continue reading or play cards until dinner , which was always excellent and ended with a savoury — an almost obsolete course , sadly . |
| 5 | As she heard him come back she refrained from looking out of her window , nor did she go down to the corridor outside his room when , a little later , she heard him groaning as he always did in the grip of a nightmare . |
| 6 | Now Rhoda had stopped work she would go down to the newsagent on the corner for her cigarettes at the same time every morning , each day a little lighter on her feet . |
| 7 | Perhaps they would go down to the harbour in the evening and watch the yachts coming in to the anchorage , and sit with other groups at the chairs and tables outside the Bell Inn . |
| 8 | It was only when I felt safe with you , and after we had spent some hours working on our poems , that we would go down to the restaurant for late dinner , which always ended with either banana or ‘ flan ’ . |
| 9 | But how will it go down with the fans like England soccer heroes Gary Lineker and Des Walker or film stars Liz Taylor and Joan Collins ? |
| 10 | Australian Greg Norman may go down in the record-books as the unluckiest player in the major championships . |
| 11 | The case was heard by an exceptionally unconventional judge , but one of sound common sense , Mr Justice Caulfield , who more recently found fame in his unorthodox but equally commonsensical summing-up in the Jeffrey Archer action , where his description of Mrs Archer as ‘ fragrant ’ , no doubt causing great embarrassment to the lady , will go down in the history of judicial extravagance . |
| 12 | But one thing is very clear , that Councillor will go down in the history of this city as one of it 's most outstanding sons , who endeared himself to people in all walks of life . |
| 13 | this match will go down in the records as a runaway victory for United but all the goals came in the last ten minutes … |
| 14 | Stopping on the lonely road , I watched the sun go down in the trees behind Thornfield , and then in the silence I heard a horse approaching . |