Example sentences of "go down [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , the computer goes down for a hour , it 's three-quarters of the day to get everything back and validated , and that 's a major interruption . |
| 2 | The path simply sheds water to either side ; but where a path which follows the contours goes down into a dip , you 'll have to ensure that ponding does n't occur , and it may be necessary to form a small land drain to lead the water away to a less waterlogged area . |
| 3 | Er , she goes down with a friend . |
| 4 | John King makes a late shuffle after Neil McNab goes down with a stomach upset . |
| 5 | You know , Bill always goes down on a Tuesday |
| 6 | And when it goes down to a water hole to drink it crouches down and awkwardly sips with its mouth . |
| 7 | From Gearstones an undisputed path goes down to a footbridge over the stream , here known as Gayle Beck . |
| 8 | The other would allow the smart to inherit the Earth ( plus a legacy from their wealthy parents ) and console us with the exhortation to work harder if we want more , which goes down like a glass of sand in the unemployment deserts . |
| 9 | So long as someone knows you 're down there and comes to dig you out , then a basement 's always best , even if the rest goes down like a pack of cards . ’ |
| 10 | Judging from geological surveys , they expect to have to go down to a depth of 45 metres before they find it . |
| 11 | what would you like to go down as a scrubber ? |
| 12 | It was Alexander , formerly of Barnet , who demanded the only save Steve Ogrizovic was required to make — a low shot from the edge of the area forcing the man-mountain goalkeeper to go down with a motion usually greeted with cries of ‘ timber ’ . |
| 13 | Spike , of course , kept saying " He wants us to go down for a drink . " |
| 14 | I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week . |
| 15 | FOR a thriller to really thrill there should be moments when you are gripping the edge of your seat wondering if the star is indeed going to go down in a hail of bullets — one more dead hero . |
| 16 | Yawl ran an excellent Oaks trial in Wednesday 's Tripleprint Lupe Stakes at Goodwood , rallying bravely to go down by a head to Gisarne . |
| 17 | Occasionally with him she had the sense she was going down through a hole in the floor . |
| 18 | She felt as if she were sinking deeper and deeper in her own panic , her whole consciousness going down into a quicksand while her body stood there , stupid with fear . |
| 19 | Because there is every possibility that if the fund payers determine quality , they will tend to overlook areas in which quality is going down as a result of financial pressures — |
| 20 | I spent an afternoon in Sunderland with an old miner in his eighties , who was n't a club man or active in the union , with this lovely voice , talking about first going down as a trapper — he sat all day when he was thirteen by the trap doors which the paddy wagons carrying coal had to pass through , all day in the pitch dark . |
| 21 | You going down on a weekend darling ? |
| 22 | It was rather pathetic sometimes because he was upset at somebody going down on a discipline charge and getting the sack . |
| 23 | I do n't know if I 'm going down with a cold or something . |
| 24 | Now I did not have the slightest intention of going down for a drink : all the drinking I was going to do was at the reception — if I ever got to the wedding . |
| 25 | But erm you see , they suggested going down for a meeting he 's up to his eyes in it ! |
| 26 | I 'm going down for a week from 10 May to see many of them . |
| 27 | There 's an underground thing — you know , steps going down to a station , so I go down there and wander around for a bit . |
| 28 | There 's a garden going down to a stream . |
| 29 | Madeleine said she did n't mind , but you could see his lordship was going down like a dose of castor oil . |
| 30 | And you get silences on the phone and you 're thinking this is going down like a lead balloon . |