Example sentences of "[noun pl] went down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The ponies walked slowly because their feet went down into the snow . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The young Germans went down into the crypt , pulling you after them . |
| 6 | The two girls went down to the village that morning to secure a piece of board and some paint . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yesterday a fuse blew and all the screens went down in the middle of the show . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |