Example sentences of "go down [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may however wish to go down to a detailed level , in which a sub-component of the domain is specified as having a fixed or moving relationship to a component or primitive of another domain , such as one " slotted into " the other . |
| 2 | It was rather like going down into a horrid , dark , earthy hole , where dull crimson firs burned and where grinning creatures might be peering at you from the shadows . |
| 3 | Recriminations over the sound and an equivocal audience response ( some pogoed , most stared blankly on as a repeat offender dove on to dance to ‘ Motown Junk ’ ) sees the set and with the bass ricocheting off the backdrop , the drum kit going down to a repeated kicking and singer James making messy love to his gorgeous white Gibson . |
| 4 | NINETEEN EIGHTY-TWO just might go down as a memorable year in the history of Britain , if not the rest of the world . |
| 5 | This will go down as a crucial staging post in the sport 's history in this country . ’ |
| 6 | So do they go down as a new intake . |
| 7 | ‘ We believe we have done just that , and this team will go down as an outstanding one in any era . |
| 8 | It was certainly correct to put Jim Prior , Peter Walker and Ian Gilmour firmly in the ‘ wet ’ camp and Keith Joseph would go down as an undoubted ‘ dry ’ , but for most of the rest of us our opinion depended upon the issue . |
| 9 | This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . |
| 10 | During the following few days a number of people in the bus will go down with a cold and will likely blame the poor soul who was suffering on his journey home . |
| 11 | He continued : ‘ With criminal trespass , all they can do is go down on a daily basis and charge people . |
| 12 | Five clubs would go down from a reformed league of 14 clubs in the First Division , with the Second Division champions being promoted . |
| 13 | Surkov , in a Yale T-shirt , was sitting alone at a table when I went down to a late breakfast . |
| 14 | suffered their fifth defeat in a row when they went down to a narrow 17–15 defeat in the Shield at home to Knottingley . |
| 15 | suffered their fifth defeat in a row when they went down to a narrow 17–15 defeat in the Shield at home to Knottingley . |
| 16 | However , he went down to a promising Dubliner Noel Higgins of Glasnevin 13–11 . |
| 17 | For Labour supporters , 1931 was the election when the party went down to a cataclysmic and catastrophic defeat , betrayed by MacDonald and deserted by its working class supporters … |
| 18 | So what happens if you have , just supposing you went down to a crazy way o of means testing . |
| 19 | SUNDERLAND caretaker boss Malcolm Crosby was full of praise for his reserve side who went down to a single goal defeat to star-studded Manchester United Reserve side at Roker Park on Wednesday evening . |
| 20 | We went down to an awful Wimpy Bar opposite Chagueramas — which later became The Roxy . |
| 21 | The leaderene went down with a satisfying thump , her spiked coronet falling off . |
| 22 | On the third day out , Rachel went down with a high temperature and swellings in the groin . |
| 23 | He went down on a loose ball and my boot landed on him . |
| 24 | Fl Lt McNally was one of nine members of the RAF crew killed when the plane , went down during a low-level training exercise in the Grampians two weeks ago . |
| 25 | All nine members of the crew were killed when their RAF Hercules went down during a treacherous low level flying mission through the Grampians 19 days ago . |
| 26 | She 'd expected a steady upward climb , but suddenly the tunnel dipped and steps went down beside a white race of water . |
| 27 | They left the deserted house , the old manservant locking the door behind them , and went down into a deserted Cheapside . |
| 28 | The sun spangled on the water as it went down into a red wrack of clouds . |
| 29 | When the Titanic was finally located on the sea-bed a crew went down in a tiny submarine to explore the wreckage . |
| 30 | He then attacked a third which went down in a vertical dive , apparently into the sea . |