Example sentences of "and [pers pn] go down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A love song on the crackly Holiday Inn radio which the maid always switches on as her final flourish after she 's done the room ( Hugo and I go down to the pool and swim and use the sauna while we wait for her to finish ) or a pop song on the telly as Hugo and I eat our continental breakfast ( orange juice , coffee , a croissant and a Danish each ) , too languid even to stretch out for the remote control and switch it off — will make tears come to my eyes : move me with the desire to say , You do love me , do n't you ! |
| 2 | Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't ! |
| 3 | And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees . |
| 4 | there and I went down to the at and he said we got your lintel in mate , do you want to take it ? |
| 5 | So and I went down in the pool this morning |
| 6 | Andy and I went down by the river and the loch , clambering up the rocks upstream then back down , watching fish jump lazily out on the calm loch , or strike at the insects speckling those flat waters , jaws snapping underneath ; dispatching , swallowing , leaving ripples . |
| 7 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 8 | He gave her a quick nod of approval and she went down to the end of the shop and began filling in the certificates , taking her information from the records Mr Miller had already made . |
| 9 | It was like a drug , like the swell of the ocean , and she went down under the waves . |
| 10 | Some of the boys followed and we went down into the basement and I turned the phonograph on as loud as it would play . |
| 11 | We left the older ones in the family to look after Low Birk Hatt , do the milking and other chores , and we went down with the horses . |
| 12 | He was in my heat and we went down to the start to fix our blocks into the Tartan . |
| 13 | The tide was ebbing , and they went down on the steeply shelving bed of the Conway . |
| 14 | Wexford laughed and they went down in the lift together . |
| 15 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
| 16 | 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 |