Example sentences of "[noun pl] go down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We decided to build a balcony with steps going down to the garden , but our builder advised us to think about the year-round advantages of a conservatory , ’ Claudia explained . |
| 2 | There were some steps going down to the foreshore near a riverside pub . |
| 3 | The sea wall ended , steps going down from the promenade and burying themselves in sand . |
| 4 | And there are steps going down from the drawing room , and up from the dining room . |
| 5 | When the dun evening comes the kids go down to the irrigation channels for some bilharzia bathing . |
| 6 | On Thursday night — late night shopping — Nails went down to the supermarket in his anorak with the big pockets and lifted six electric plugs , four pairs of scissors and a pair of pillowcases which he sold to a friend of his father 's for three pounds . |
| 7 | The ponies walked slowly because their feet went down into the snow . |
| 8 | The guardian asked three climbers going down to the village to inform the police , as he was unable to contact them himself since the refuge radio was broken . |
| 9 | There were hundreds of ropes going down to the stage below — it was a long , long way down . |
| 10 | She had talked of a sex scene when she was on Wogan , but he assumed it would be something more romantic — a magnolia bud of a tit peeping from beneath bed linen as she held out her arms to her lover and the lights went down at the end of the play . |
| 11 | From year to year they used the same handrails to go down into the past : lifting the cartwheel at the crossroads , the drilling sessions by the river , the first ambush , marching at night between the safe houses , the different characters in the houses , the food , the girls … |
| 12 | Back at Templecombe , now over his shock , Mandeville paced around like an angry cat , hurling abuse at Santerre , telling Lady Beatrice to stop screaming and order servants to go down to the village and bring wise women to attend to Southgate . |
| 13 | Then one of my sons went down into the village to see if the army had left , He came back to tell us that they had destroyed everything , that they had taken all the maize , all the cows and had burnt every house in sight . |
| 14 | The young Germans went down into the crypt , pulling you after them . |
| 15 | The two girls went down to the village that morning to secure a piece of board and some paint . |
| 16 | He bared her breasts ; put his tongue to them as his hands went down to the belt of her skirt , to find that she 'd changed for the trip , and was wearing jeans . |
| 17 | The three children went down to the station at the right time , dressed in their best clothes , and the Station Master came to meet them . |
| 18 | As the hands go down to the floor , the right knee is cocked up near the right shoulder . |
| 19 | but to feel sorry for women and put their view forward because , I mean , you still the situation of a Friday when men go down to the pub and you know they 're all Jack the Lad ! |
| 20 | Mervyn , I suggest you , Eric and the rest of the men go down to the river . |
| 21 | Yesterday a fuse blew and all the screens went down in the middle of the show . |
| 22 | Their debacle against Essex , when the last eight wickets went down in the final 20 overs to Mark Ilott and John Childs , reflected a temperamental flaw that has repeatedly dogged the county . |
| 23 | For a second the boat began to turn on its side , then the oars went down into the water and the boat came down the side of the wave . |