Example sentences of "go down [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 This legendary descent begins from the Grands Montets and goes down to join the lower part of the Vallee Blanche .
2 And all I ken was that we got word that there was to be a school trip and that we were leaving I forget what tie in the morning , and going down to see the German ships .
3 My memories of it , I 've got , I 've always got wonderful memories of the Co-op , you see and that Co-op has been there m on that corner which , when it closed a few years ago I went down to see the present executive officer , he was then assistant , and we campaigned against the closing of Walsall Wood shop but erm course it was of no avail .
4 I went down to examine the poor priest .
5 It means following the ignis fatuus , the ‘ will o ’ the wisp' that traditionally leads travellers into bog or quicksand ; an analogue to the multiple wanderings of Book 111 is Frodo staring at the corpse-candles in chapter 2 of Book IV , to be warned by Gollum not to heed them , or the dead , rotten , phantasmal faces in the marshes below : ‘ Or hobbits go down to join the Dead ones and light little candles .
  Next page