Example sentences of "go [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | I wanted only to go down to the summer-house and watch the leaves falling until night fell with them . |
| 62 | Therefore instead of walking all the way along the cliffs that morning , he decided to go down to the beach on the last lap of his journey , knowing that Edna and her small charge could well be at the far end , from whence he could quickly scramble up the pathway to the Tremayne property . |
| 63 | If I 'd have thought that Mrs Carrow would take it on herself to go down to the beach with little Celia that morning when one of my younger brothers came for me because my mum was ill , well I 'd never have gone , however much I was needed at home . |
| 64 | When we finally spill outside , Rachel says she wants to go down to the beach again . |
| 65 | She had exactly six hours till midnight , six hours to make up her mind whether to go down to the beach bar , or give it a miss for the very first time . |
| 66 | Eels are not thought to go down to the abyssal depths of the Atlantic where they could get such indications from the sea floor . |
| 67 | ‘ We used to go down to the park on Sunday afternoons , taking the children down when they were very young . |
| 68 | He loves to go down to the factory floor and see the products being made . |
| 69 | Just after six , with darkness falling , I decided to go down to the bar for a drink , was pulling on my jacket when the phone went . |
| 70 | After a fortnight we were told to go down to the airfield for a possible lift into Assam , but often refugees went in the morning but were back in the evening as the planes were so busy taking out wounded soldiers . |
| 71 | But I should say very often the old Guv'nor would let him have either a shilling to go down to the pub while we did the job , or else he would provide him with a jug of home-brewed beer and bread and cheese . |
| 72 | to go down to the pub |
| 73 | I hoped to go down to the desert at Zagora . |
| 74 | He wanted her to go down to the river with him . |
| 75 | The plan was to go down to the south coast and camp . |
| 76 | ‘ What on earth possessed you to go down to the sea ? ’ asked Mrs Ridley . |
| 77 | Only that she did n't want to go down to the sea again . ’ |
| 78 | now if I want to go down to the sea front well I 'll shall get a taxi and , and sha n't be worrying where me next meals coming from because I 've saved it , so , so that 's , that 's no worry , I was saying to Arthur if we went to Butlins well it would take all we had , because it , we could n't go to Butlins under three hundred pounds for two of us , we could n't go anywhere else , if we go to Blackpool , our , our said to , to , to dad , I , I would like to pop to , er I do n't think we will do because , er , the hassle for your dad , but er , I 'd like to go and see aunty Annie , but I do n't want to go to Nelson to do it |
| 79 | ‘ The Welsh name for the bridge over there , ’ said Beuno , gesturing , ‘ means ‘ the place where the milk was spilt ’ because one year the nuns ' cow went dry and they had to go down to the village to beg for some , and they got this far and then one of them dropped it . ’ |
| 80 | Back at Templecombe , now over his shock , Mandeville paced around like an angry cat , hurling abuse at Santerre , telling Lady Beatrice to stop screaming and order servants to go down to the village and bring wise women to attend to Southgate . |
| 81 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 82 | The , if any of the ladies would like to go down to the village or anybody , the church is open and I think there 's somebody there who would welcome you to show you round the church down in the village which , I know , during the war years at different times , quite a lot of you chaps did attend and er so we do hope you will see and , and of course later on I hope you 'll be coming down to mine for a cup of tea . |
| 83 | On occasion there is n't sufficient water available from the stream or the rainwater tub , and I have to go down to the reservoir , which I call the Mississippi , to rinse the washing . |
| 84 | Nell Anderson said it , knowing that it was hopeless , that Delaney would — had to go down to the engine room . |
| 85 | It was this loco that regularly worked the 17.09 two coach local from Chesterfield to Sheffield in 1962 , and after school it was customary to go down to the station and wait for it to arrive light engine . |
| 86 | Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone . |
| 87 | My mother wanted me to go down to the bungalow with them and because I wanted — I wanted our relations to improve — well , I said I would . ’ |
| 88 | He was to go down to the Supersight factory for some practice with Harley and was then to go with him to a couple of the Continental tournaments . ’ |
| 89 | From there she 'd be able to go down to the lakeside if she chose , or else pick up one of the shore paths that would take her further into the valley . |
| 90 | We 're going to go down to the travel agents |