Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] go down [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Just after six , with darkness falling , I decided to go down to the bar for a drink , was pulling on my jacket when the phone went .
2 Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone .
3 I hoped to go down to the desert at Zagora .
4 She 'd gone down to the seashore with the dogs and there he 'd been , following her .
5 Sarah was kept busy replenishing dishes , and every time she had to go down to the kitchen she was afraid of missing the Reverend Morey , but he appeared last of all .
6 After her abortive attempt to break into journalism , she had gone down to the beach , flung off her dress , and plunged into the water at Backyards .
7 I tell ya , so I think we got out , we got our hair done and she wanted to go down to the mission so the hairdresser phoned a different taxi , we have this one up here , he took her down from there to the mission , cos he went down the back ways , you know ,
8 We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened .
9 We did go down to the library .
10 The floorboards had n't snapped , as I 'd originally thought : they 'd gone down into the dock with Harry .
11 My men called her something else when they started going down with the ‘ clap ’ , but she was long gone by the time they found out . ’
12 ‘ The Welsh name for the bridge over there , ’ said Beuno , gesturing , ‘ means ‘ the place where the milk was spilt ’ because one year the nuns ' cow went dry and they had to go down to the village to beg for some , and they got this far and then one of them dropped it . ’
13 the pit and the the circular with a saw you know , the wood , they had to go down in a in a pit .
14 But erm you see , they suggested going down for a meeting he 's up to his eyes in it !
15 and he was let out and first , within twenty four hours he 'd gone down to the South Coast and killed his mother and his girl friend
16 Therefore instead of walking all the way along the cliffs that morning , he decided to go down to the beach on the last lap of his journey , knowing that Edna and her small charge could well be at the far end , from whence he could quickly scramble up the pathway to the Tremayne property .
17 He decided to go down to the cottage during the afternoon and find out for himself .
18 Er because the pit bottom was lit up and it meant going down into the dark , an exciting thought for a young fella , er and so off I went and I was put down on one of the faces , as a lad , and said , Right lad , you want to be collier ?
19 he had gone down without a sound — and by the time he had woken up , his ship had been two days out into the Channel .
20 On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family .
21 He had gone down to the stable earlier and seen that it was missing , so he went to look for it .
22 He had gone down to the cells to have a look and discovered that the prisoner was his former schoolmate .
23 In the winter he had gone down with a slight burst of influenza and anyone would have thought it was the plague .
24 When Margaret finally foundered , some hoped that he had gone down with the ship , but here he was as buoyant as the Vicar of Bray .
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