Example sentences of "[vb past] go down [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they got to go down and get another one . |
| 2 | I always knew how much he earned , because he used to give me his pay note and I 'd to go down and collect it . |
| 3 | I half got up , then I looked at the hole he 'd gone down and at the paper in my hand . |
| 4 | W what happened when things began to go down as regards the ships then ? |
| 5 | Then our small boat began to go down and we found ourselves in the water . |
| 6 | But ever since the good men started to go down and get married and have families and I do n't know what … well , I do n't know what . |
| 7 | The foal was lying down again and looking sleepy , and Firelight was dozing over it perfectly contented , and Nails decided to go down and tell Nutty what had happened . |
| 8 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 9 | If you were a couple of minutes late , you had to go down and see the superintendent . |
| 10 | Like there was this girl , she worked in the paper shop down the road , and there was this black kid who kept pestering her all the time , so we had to go down and sort him out . |
| 11 | And this cook had to go down and carry messages back and forth and all that was his job as cook . |
| 12 | Er I , I was a messenger for a time for the er , we lived in Lane and I was a messenger for a time with the erm A R P headquarters in Drive , now when my uncle got married and he had two children and I 'd , they were issuing gas masks and I had to go down and fetch a gas mask for his daughter and they were great big ones that used to envelope the whole babies with a bellows on the side that the mothers used to have to pump when they were in them , thank goodness we never had to use them and erm |
| 13 | Well I first had to go down and ask . |
| 14 | That was probably the most , the in , the most interesting form friendship in there , its fucking good , I went for a job in there , but I could n't I was an apprentice , as I say that , that 's what got me going really was the fact that he had to go down and actually do a design of the and he had to work on the |
| 15 | he could n't swing much so he had to go down and back in but er |
| 16 | I 've got an appointment in the hospital the second week of March and she said go down and have a blood test about three weeks before at least three weeks before . |
| 17 | It was their talk on the cliff-top as the sun had gone down that had changed it all . |
| 18 | The wind had gone down but the night had turned chilly and she shivered as she hurried towards the hospital gates , which were brightly picked out , as was everything else , by the moonlight . |
| 19 | By 1819 , if Shelley is to be taken as a reliable guide , Wordsworth 's stock had gone down and down : ‘ He was at first sublime , pathetic , impressive , profound ; then dull ; then prosy and dull ; and now dull — oh so very dull ! it is an ultra-legitimate dulness ’ ( Dedication to Peter Bell the Third ) . |
| 20 | Not for Fergie creeping to her seat with her escort after the lights had gone down and slipping out again just before the final curtain . |