Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] went down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ So I went down to the canal . |
| 2 | It seemed as good a time as any to go , so I went down to the squat in the King 's Road where I was living and picked up my passport . |
| 3 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 4 | And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees . |
| 5 | there and I went down to the at and he said we got your lintel in mate , do you want to take it ? |
| 6 | So and I went down in the pool this morning |
| 7 | Andy and I went down by the river and the loch , clambering up the rocks upstream then back down , watching fish jump lazily out on the calm loch , or strike at the insects speckling those flat waters , jaws snapping underneath ; dispatching , swallowing , leaving ripples . |
| 8 | They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office … |
| 9 | I — think if I had some fresh air today I should feel much better , if I went down to the sea , perhaps . ’ |
| 10 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
| 11 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 12 | He gave her a quick nod of approval and she went down to the end of the shop and began filling in the certificates , taking her information from the records Mr Miller had already made . |
| 13 | It was like a drug , like the swell of the ocean , and she went down under the waves . |
| 14 | And then you had yuppies , but nobody mixed , and the feeling , if you went down to the Turkish |
| 15 | Some of the boys followed and we went down into the basement and I turned the phonograph on as loud as it would play . |
| 16 | We left the older ones in the family to look after Low Birk Hatt , do the milking and other chores , and we went down with the horses . |
| 17 | He was in my heat and we went down to the start to fix our blocks into the Tartan . |
| 18 | The tide was ebbing , and they went down on the steeply shelving bed of the Conway . |
| 19 | Wexford laughed and they went down in the lift together . |
| 20 | It would be seven and sixpence for the consultation if they went down to the surgery . |
| 21 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
| 22 | But he , he was getting more money in Bailey 's so he ended up if he went down to the , the he would get two fifty still . |
| 23 | ‘ No , but I went down to the quay one Sunday and I heard her . |
| 24 | She was not particularly hungry , but she went down to the hotel 's dining-room around eight that evening , then returned to her room to spend a fitful night . |
| 25 | But before we went down into the |
| 26 | Before we went down to the kitchen Elinor patted all the Napoleana into place , violets and Redouté roses ; a picture of him riding his horse , Marengo , and that one of him feeling for his wallet ; matchstick models made by French prisoners of war and a tricolour flying at half-mast . |
| 27 | We 'd have a respite of about a fortnight if we were lucky before he went down with the next one . |
| 28 | Well , it was absolute chaos when I went down to the Press reception before the Women of the Year lunch . |
| 29 | But when I went down to the shop |
| 30 | I knew I had done something when I went down in the tackle . ’ |