Example sentences of "went down [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You cool little sod , thought Toby , and reluctantly went down to the front drive . |
| 2 | He was a final-year student there when he went down to the provincial town of Kecskemet to earn some pocket money by delivering lectures . |
| 3 | He passed under the rock where Ellwood was sitting and went down to the narrow spit where he always stood to fish . |
| 4 | Apricot waited until her exams were over and then went down to the Catholic church and hung about until she met Bernard coming out of confession . |
| 5 | They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office … |
| 6 | we , we went and you know park where we normally park and went down to the United chip shop and er we got our chips and stood outside |
| 7 | My master wandered out and I unpacked my belongings , washed , changed and went down to the sumptuous banquet Santerre 's cooks had prepared for us . |
| 8 | He , too , was caught up in the excitement for jazz and with Bobby and other students went down to the Red Barn at Barnehurst , a half-hour run from Charing Cross , to hear George Webb 's Dixielanders , the band that pioneered the New Orleans revival in Britain . |
| 9 | We went down to the white-washed infirmary where I made Benjamin stop at the kitchen for rags soaked in vinegar and herbs . |
| 10 | Gathering himself , he dismissed her and went down to the waiting car . |
| 11 | Confrontation with the United States was followed by the more dramatic confrontations with the French at Moruroa atoll where the goaded French beat up Greenpeace 's skipper , McTaggart , rammed a protest boat and eventually murdered a photographer who went down with the sabotaged Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour in July 1985 . |
| 12 | ‘ Matilda is the late King 's daughter , Hugh , and we all took that oath to recognise her as the future queen after her brother went down with the White Ship , ’ protested the Prior . |
| 13 | The water was thick and brown and went down through the top end of Spaladale at a fearful rate . |
| 14 | Furious , Wilson went down into the freezing kitchen , where the well banked-up fire had not quite died down , and poked it vigorously until it began to burn up . |
| 15 | They cleared the thick , wooded hills of Oxford and went down into the open countryside . |
| 16 | But despite the handicap Essex made a terrific fight of it and only went down off the penultimate ball . |
| 17 | The SS Samtampa went down off the Welsh coast in a terrible storm exactly 45 years ago . |
| 18 | I went down from the upper grandstand as fast as I could , which was far too slowly because everyone else was doing the same thing . |
| 19 | The Israelis , fielding five international masters and two FIDE masters against Bayern 's six grandmasters , went down by the narrow margin of 7–5 after IM Leonid Zaid ( a recent arrival from the USSR and one of the few men alive with a plus score against Kasparov ) shocked the Germans by defeating Kindermann and Bischoff . |
| 20 | Kilmarnock went down by the only goal of the game at Dumbarton , where several hundred fans were evacuated from the main stand just minutes before the game was due to start . |