Example sentences of "go down [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we had to go down through fourteen feet of solid rock . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Trainer Peter Beaumont is keen to get a run into the seven-year-old who has been off the track since narrowly going down to 40-1 shock winner Sibton Abbey last month . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I for one was heartened to see us just going out there and enjoying ourselves , despite going down by eight goals to one . |
| 8 | Wirral still await a first win but battled hard against Caldy before going down by two wickets in the last over . |
| 9 | Since England lost 3–0 and West Indies won 2–0 , there was not much doubt who was Top Team , though , having said that , West Indies then lost a very bad-tempered series in New Zealand , going down by one wicket in the only Test to see a result . |
| 10 | Gas charges are going down by three percent . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 | HOLLYWOOD would go down on one knee for the exclusive rights to Saturday 's England fly-half qualifier at Gloucester between Rob Andrew and Stuart Barnes . |
| 14 | ‘ Did he go down on one knee , hand on heart ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The nitrate went down to 10–15 ppm , which is less than our local tapwater . |
| 17 | At the age of sixteen , cos there was hardly anybody else at the place where I lived so it went down to sixteen year olds . |
| 18 | On this occasion , Berlin had a thick cloud cover that went down to 2,000 ft and made accurate bombing impossible . |
| 19 | I went down to seven stone something and I looked hellish . ’ |
| 20 | the second time she had it done and then , they had to remove it because she went down to seven stone |
| 21 | Rain fell , and the temperature went down to ten degrees Celsius . |
| 22 | The beautiful thing in that room was Maud Bailey herself , who went down on one knee very gracefully to plug in a kettle , and produced from a cupboard two blue and white Japanese mugs . |
| 23 | Luke went down on one knee . |
| 24 | Joe placed the bowl of water on the linoleum floor , took the discarded flannel from the bedside table and went down on one knee to apply treatment . |
| 25 | Karr went down on one knee . |
| 26 | ‘ Chieh Hsia … ’ the Marshal began , then went down on one knee , bowing his head low . |
| 27 | Holmes went down on one knee , and put his ear to the ground . |
| 28 | He went down on one knee beside the older woman . |
| 29 | Benjamin went down on one knee , tugging at my sleeve for me to follow suit . |
| 30 | They went down in one day , unloaded the two separate loads , got round to number seven Edgeware Road the next day . |