Example sentences of "go down [art] pit " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was so cold in the winding shed at the mines that the men begged to go down the pit to get warm . |
| 2 | Although I wanted to go down the pit because you got more money you see . |
| 3 | She told me , too , of the mines , and how some of the young boys were terrified of going down the pit for the first time , but had to go , as there was no other work for them ; and how at first they had been put to work beside their father , loading the coal he cut , until they had overcome their fear . |
| 4 | You 're na you 're not going down the pit ? |
| 5 | I said No , no-one at home was , Everyone at home had said , You 're not going down the pit . |
| 6 | British Coal refused to let 150 miners go down the pit at Silverhill , Mansfield . |
| 7 | My parents went absolutely nuts because all my family are coal miners — my grandfathers , my uncles — and the idea was that if you got a chance you did n't go down the pit , but I wanted to . |
| 8 | Well the working in the pit and the first and the first time I went down the pit er the pit was er John Watson 's number four colliery in Motherwell . |
| 9 | We shall go on expanding higher and further education to ensure more of our young people go on to college as naturally as they once went down the pit or onto the shop floor . |