Example sentences of "go down [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Trident sub goes down for the first time
2 But the assumption that all morality means sexual morality is too widespread to go down without a few squawks of protest .
3 He may however wish to go down to a detailed level , in which a sub-component of the domain is specified as having a fixed or moving relationship to a component or primitive of another domain , such as one " slotted into " the other .
4 He dismissed the subject from his mind and decided to go down to the tiny lunchroom he ran for his employees , to get a cup of coffee .
5 Jennifer remembered Tristram 's face grinning through the wall , and the firm warm clasp of his hand as he reached through to her ; she remembered a night when the moonlight was like mercury on the trees — and she remembered her own sudden cry of love and joy , which Mrs Prynn had thought was the deadly shriek of a mandrake and which had caused her to go down to the lower scullery to see if Jennifer was safe .
6 Under the new policy , anyone working on the twelfth floor will need to go down to the first floor to clock out , to the fourth floor to find a smoking room , down to the first to clock on again and back to the twelfth to carry on working .
7 The sister did not like this at all and called the paediatrician , who examined and decided that he ought to go down to the special care baby unit after all .
8 That I may be able to go down into the Saxon crypt of a cathedral , a tiny , exquisitely rude little chapel , where a thousand years ago my forefathers knelt in prayer , is a draught of pure oxygen .
9 ‘ She 'll have to go down in the fattening fields with the cows . ’
10 But i it depends Terry with everybody 's going down on the urgent work ones which is putting the normal service
11 The last time this happened I just managed to catch a glimpse of his two black eyes , going down for the third time , before I landed him .
12 HAVING done all the hard work in bowling out for 158 a Bellville XI bolstered by four Western Province players , Scotland failed to score quickly enough in going down to a second defeat , by 13 runs , on their South African tour yesterday .
13 Recriminations over the sound and an equivocal audience response ( some pogoed , most stared blankly on as a repeat offender dove on to dance to ‘ Motown Junk ’ ) sees the set and with the bass ricocheting off the backdrop , the drum kit going down to a repeated kicking and singer James making messy love to his gorgeous white Gibson .
14 Whether time permits or not , a detour should be made along the A.881 from Broadford to its terminus at Elgol , there going down to the colourful beach of pebbles and wild flowers and low cliffs : a beautiful foreground to a classic view , the finest in Britain , of the Black Cuillin across the wide waters of Loch Scavaig , a picture that would defeat a Constable or a Turner .
15 he just do n't like going down to the deep end
16 Before going down to the northern ramparts where the brunt of the attack was expected to fall , he took a last look round the room and saw Hari 's phrenology book lying on the floor .
17 Beyond the car park , the road contours the hillside , two branches going down to the coastal dwellings of Inver Alligin , and then turns sharply uphill to force a narrow passage across a bare and rocky headland on the last stage of its journey .
18 I put going down to the English Centre and using the computer
19 The stones are sometimes said to turn round or dance before going down to the local stream or lake to drink .
20 Going down to the next layer , each of these moves consists of specified acts , as in Figure 6 .
21 It will require a miracle for Bedford to retain their status , even allowing for their few plus points — a top New Zealand coach , the arrival of a useful looking New Zealand scrum-half , and the fact that if the three national divisions are expanded , as proposed , next season , only one team will be going down from the First Division .
22 From the top you can go down into the old crater via a scree slope which , viewed from the other side , looks impossibly steep ( ’ I 'm never going down there ! ’ ) but is actually quite easy ( the descent is 600ft . ) .
23 NINETEEN EIGHTY-TWO just might go down as a memorable year in the history of Britain , if not the rest of the world .
24 This will go down as a crucial staging post in the sport 's history in this country . ’
25 So do they go down as a new intake .
26 The toll in what will go down as the worst rioting in US history is incomprehensible .
27 They could go down to the Sain Caernarfon League .
28 Some of you are still without your costumes so if you could all go down to the municipal tip and see if you can flush out any dustbin lids it would be a great help . ’
29 I even went , I was dying to go to the toilet so I thought oh I 'll go down to the big er and I had no toilet paper so I 'll go down to the big toilets and shower rooms .
30 We 'll go down to the next floor .
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