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

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1 The descent to the south passes the relics of an abandoned lead mine and arrives at Clouds Gill to join the old mine road which goes down past the limekilns to The Street and the waiting car .
2 Erm imaginary line that goes down through the middle of a ball , yes , through there Jupiter .
3 And the prince goes down through the wood to another exit
4 You can see there 's been a wee bit of damage to that ligament just where it goes down over the top of that bone .
5 Misumenops nepenthicola , a spider , lives there and captures flies ; if these are distasteful they are ( sometimes ) thrown back into the pitcher ; if disturbed , the spider goes down into the liquid on a thread , its armour and a bubble of air making it immune to the digestive juices there .
6 Your name goes down into the future as Mary Shelley . ’
7 He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx .
8 After a further mile towards Chapel-le-Dale , a track turns off the road to the left and goes down to the beck in the valley bottom , arriving at a section roofed by a natural arch of considerable length .
9 we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er
10 Cross the road and take path going north-north-east which then bears left to Stoke Ridge and goes down to the bend in the road at Stoke Pero .
11 It goes down to the throat with redness and swelling , enlarged tonsils , hot head , congested face , heavy limbs , a gradual onset .
12 And he 'd got round the corner , ready to go down to the rest of the stairs which went down , and then at the bottom turned round the corner again .
13 If I 'd have thought that Mrs Carrow would take it on herself to go down to the beach with little Celia that morning when one of my younger brothers came for me because my mum was ill , well I 'd never have gone , however much I was needed at home .
14 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 .
15 ‘ We used to go down to the park on Sunday afternoons , taking the children down when they were very young .
16 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 .
17 After a fortnight we were told to go down to the airfield for a possible lift into Assam , but often refugees went in the morning but were back in the evening as the planes were so busy taking out wounded soldiers .
18 I hoped to go down to the desert at Zagora .
19 He wanted her to go down to the river with him .
20 My mother wanted me to go down to the bungalow with them and because I wanted — I wanted our relations to improve — well , I said I would . ’
21 He decided to go down to the cottage during the afternoon and find out for himself .
22 Only specialist engineers are likely to go down to the level of AND gates and NOR gates , and only physicists will go down further , to the level of how electrons behave in a semiconducting medium .
23 We 'll need another two or three days here , but I have to go down to the mortuary with the body .
24 Edward had watched over her for hours , even refusing to go down to the lock with his friends for days , though he loved to play there .
25 He had braved the bitter weather to go down to the bookshops on the Charing Cross Road not just for the chance to get some books — he could have bought them any time — but principally to meet Joseph Hyde and hear the latest news from Dublin .
26 Nevertheless : If a teacher has , himself , to go down into the library with the whole class , or if you can only afford a third of a teacher to be in the library at certain times , then you are quite simply restricting the amount of work that can go on .
27 Maurice was deserted , Maurice having been invited , as he quite often was , to go down for the day to Brighton .
28 I , I used to walk it there when I went there , e even from Lane I never used to get on the bus I , I used to walk it down there cos we used to go down by the side of , of the old Street cemetery you know over by the gas works and up Street the erm
29 While the Prince of Banality is going down as the embodiment of Eighties vulgarity and hype , the museum world and the academy are singing his praises .
30 At first I took them for Maria 's , though it seemed strange that she should be going down to the beach at that time .
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