Example sentences of "went down [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short-term ticket numbers went down slightly , by about 4% , to 13,155 . |
| 2 | And that 's where you went down slightly , er or erm carts , lorries , anything else went down there . |
| 3 | In the 1950s and 60s dowries in India went down generally because gold was controlled , but not so in East Africa , where dowries rose as though they would never stop . |
| 4 | I could see from the onlooking faces that he was coming for me and at what speed , and when I felt the air behind me move and heard the brush of his clothes I went down fast on one knee and whirled and punched upwards hard into the bottom of his advancing rib cage and then shifted my weight into his body and upwards so as to lift him wholesale off the floor , and before he 'd got that sorted out I had one of his wrists in my hand and he ended up on his feet with me behind him , his arm in a nice painful lock and my mouth by his ear . |
| 5 | He went down fast , clawing at the water with his hands , trailing his useless leg , and praying there was no blood pumping out , clouding the water , and contaminating it with its smell . |
| 6 | It went down badly , sour to his taste . |
| 7 | a bit of arson on a Sunday night never went down badly |
| 8 | Women were only married for their strength , but when that went , they were worthless , & their children went down instead . |
| 9 | He went down slowly . |
| 10 | He lost his footing as he backed away and went down heavily . |
| 11 | The agent went down heavily , a gash on his head weeping blood down the side of his face . |
| 12 | At 0840hrs the second wave of enemy aircraft were met by a hail of gunfire from the ships , three went down immediately . |
| 13 | He went down immediately , yelling and cursing afresh . |
| 14 | He hit her , catching her so hard on the side of the head that she went down full-length on the sand . |
| 15 | Her anguish , Henry noted , went down rather well with Donald . |
| 16 | They went alright , Andrew went down alright . |
| 17 | The hygroscopic mixture got damp ; when the humidity went down again it caked into an intractable solid mass . |
| 18 | His head went down again and he cried and cried and cried . |
| 19 | I went down again to his room to make sure he had n't returned in the night . |
| 20 | He came up , the water around him red from his blood , then he went down again , for ever . |
| 21 | So it 'd go went down one it 'd go to three , went down again it 'd go to two . |
| 22 | When the males were returned the level of fighting went down again . |
| 23 | As he went down again , and traversed the headmaster 's hall on his way to the study , Pumfrey thought he caught a glimpse of the head 's pallid face through the crack of an open door . |
| 24 | We then went down again , this time backwards which was also excellent fun , if a little daunting with not quite being able to see what was going on . |
| 25 | He took the Stork straight down to two thousand , waited until the Yak came in , banked and went down again . |
| 26 | And I never went down again . |
| 27 | Middlesbrough went down straight after promotion four years ago . |
| 28 | Plus he went skiing on his own at Christmas and he went down straight away . |
| 29 | I wrote a similar piece entitled ‘ The Grievance Procedure , Step by Step ’ which also went down well . |
| 30 | The relationship between American distributors and British producers was an unequal one , but when British studios started to make films that went down well in America , executives became optimistic that they could turn the new relationships formed with US companies in their favour , and brushed aside Maxwell 's repeated warnings that ‘ as their films were produced in a manner most acceptable to their own people , there was no reason why they should go outside for pictures . ’ |