Example sentences of "go down [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we had to go down through fourteen feet of solid rock . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're desperate to put that right because we do n't want to go down as one-season wonders . |
| 3 | The sales patter flowed as freely as the corporate wine , but how well was it going down with potential investors … |
| 4 | The agile and fleet-footed Salmond showed little sign of the calf injury sustained in a recent football match and which required 18 stitches , but unfortunately only the two debutants , Love ( 14 ) and Stuart Kennedy ( 10 ) , gave the Arbroath player any support , the last five wickets going down for 32 runs . |
| 5 | ‘ Or perhaps you would like me to inveigle her out of her self-imposed purdah and come up here instead of you going down to Four Winds . ’ |
| 6 | The Hurricane lost it and flew round for five minutes , going down to 400 feet above the water to avoid appearing on the radar screens on nearby Italian-occupied islands . |
| 7 | An expression still in use today ‘ going down like nine pins ’ probably relates to the 1783 tailors and the nine pins used in this game . |
| 8 | I for one was heartened to see us just going out there and enjoying ourselves , despite going down by eight goals to one . |
| 9 | Wirral still await a first win but battled hard against Caldy before going down by two wickets in the last over . |
| 10 | Another Coral made an encouraging seasonal debut last month when going down by seven lengths to Tipping Tim at Cheltenham — a race in which he also finished second last year — and is now 11lb better off with that rival . |
| 11 | Since the major component of auditors ' costs — the salaries bill — is going down in many firms , it is not unnatural that the audit fees themselves are also reducing . |
| 12 | Its diet consists of herring , mackerel , pilchard , rats-tails and argentines , also squid , and , as it will go down to 610 metres ( 334 fathoms ) deepwater species . |
| 13 | He 's gon na go down on those nuts now . |
| 14 | My best dive was when we went down to 18 metres the depth limit for novice divers it was even colder but it was fun the visibility was also low we had to feel our way back . |
| 15 | Having chosen confrontation with the unions the Heath government went down to important defeats : the resolution of the miners ' strike by the Wilberforce Report in 1972 ; the official solicitor 's intervention to free the ‘ Pentonville Five ’ in the context of demands for a general strike , after which the Industrial Relations Act was virtually a dead letter . |
| 16 | Rain fell , and the temperature went down to ten degrees Celsius . |
| 17 | South 's well-timed play had produced an overtrick on a hand on which a number of declarers actually went down in four spades , and , not surprisingly , the Israeli pair collected a complete ‘ top ’ . |
| 18 | They dived overboard as the 13,000-ton Royal Pacific went down within 15 minutes of being hit by a large trawler . |
| 19 | His B–17 went down after continual attacks , the fighters still firing into him as he continued to fall , until the aircraft suddenly exploded . |
| 20 | The Government went down by 71 votes and after a short Cabinet on the next morning ( 22 January 1924 ) he drove to Buckingham Palace and resigned . |
| 21 | City gave another disappointing display as they made their second Cup exit of the week , when in their replay in the O'Brien Trophy game , they went by the went down by three goals to one . |
| 22 | The Cowboys went down by 35 points in week one , but Buffalo , by contrast , opened on a high with four passing touchdowns , three caught by Andre Reed . |
| 23 | But although the away side did well in the Midlands , there was disappointment at Liverpool , where the locals went down by 31 shots . |
| 24 | All around , the other Scots lords went down like bowled skittles . |
| 25 | Bluetts go down after 109 years |
| 26 | However , I believe — perhaps the Minister will confirm this — that , in the last year for which we have the figures , the import of such waste has gone down to 44,000 tonnes , although that is still 10 times higher than in 1981-82 . |
| 27 | And the number for March had gone down to single figures . |
| 28 | She had gone down with all hands in the North Atlantic . |
| 29 | I could have lost my rudder , burnt my boats , turned turtle in a sea of heartbreak or gone down with all hands . |
| 30 | Madam Speaker in view of the fact that the real value of pensions has gone down for many years now following the break . |