Example sentences of "[verb] down for the third " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The annual growth of world trade in 1991 slowed down for the third successive year , according to the annual report of the Director-General of GATT , issued on March 18 .
3 We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time .
4 The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time .
5 The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time .
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