Example sentences of "went down [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They fell into step together , and went down onto the path which followed the bank of the stream , Jehan laughed softly , and then he sat down in the middle of the carpet to eat the last of the sweet cakes .
2 Jackman had Greenidge caught with his fifth ball in Test cricket , and shortly before lunch the fourth wicket went down for 65 .
3 A flicker of hope came when three West Indian wickets went down for 69 , but then it was Haynes ' turn to come good after a disappointing series .
4 Only Willey , who seemed to play his best Test innings against West Indian thunderbolts , made a fight of it with 71 ; Botham hammered a quick 29 , but the last wicket went down for 152 , leaving West Indies needing five to win .
5 Richards won the toss and took a long time to decide to bat ; when he did so Dilley bowled superbly , and five wickets went down for just 54 .
6 A target of 128 should not have been beyond England , but four wickets went down for 15 and it was left to Gower and Botham to make a game of it .
7 The Rothmans Honda team member broke his right leg in five places when he went down for a second time during the opening championship round on a wet Suzuka circuit .
8 We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time .
9 ‘ I 'd far rather you waited until it 's light , or went down for Bob . ’
10 AUSTRALIA wrapped up the series 4–0 with an ultimately easy victory over a dispirited Indian side , whose last 10 wickets went down for only 59 in the final innings .
11 Then he dressed and went down for what would now be a vulture 's breakfast .
12 Well , I went down for that Christmas .
13 And when she went down for a cup of tea , her mother mentioned casually that Parr had gone to Belfast , not to England as expected , although she did not know why .
14 The computer went down for a while , it 's probably full of water
15 What , when I went down for , so I called back later , about half an hour later and she was awake so I just took her then .
16 Went down for a walk today did n't we ?
17 And like I went down for that one Monday .
18 It was n't Angela 's boss cos she asked h she went down for you this mor er half past twelve .
19 My illness kept me out of action for a fortnight so it was fully three weeks after the demise of my job before I finally went down to my local Department of Employment offices and ‘ signed on ’ .
20 At the start of my period of being harassed , I went down to my local law centre to see what help they could give me .
21 They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office …
22 It started to rain so I went down to Apsley House at the bottom right-hand corner of the park with the intention of having a look at the paintings there .
23 There was quite a gang of us that went down to the station — four Walshes and me .
24 At nine o'clock , on the dot , I went down to the station cafe to face whatever was going to happen .
25 She opened the first bottle of wine , and went down to the door .
26 There were calls for the resignation of coach Kevin Ashcroft as Salford went down to another heavy defeat , 36-12 at home to a Bradford side inspired by their Canberra Raider , Ivan Henjak .
27 He was a final-year student there when he went down to the provincial town of Kecskemet to earn some pocket money by delivering lectures .
28 On this occasion , Berlin had a thick cloud cover that went down to 2,000 ft and made accurate bombing impossible .
29 The prime minister 's secretary went down to the diocese to consult the leading churchmen .
30 We went down to an awful Wimpy Bar opposite Chagueramas — which later became The Roxy .
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