Example sentences of "going down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it could be the boy going down through the field and scaring them . |
| 2 | Because it was an old house that they were renovating , and it had got so much rot in it and woodworm , and he said he said he said th there they were walking up one minute and the next minute the piano was just going down through the stairs . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's a small window in the second room with a large pipe going down into the moat outside , ’ he went on . |
| 4 | Er because the pit bottom was lit up and it meant going down into the dark , an exciting thought for a young fella , er and so off I went and I was put down on one of the faces , as a lad , and said , Right lad , you want to be collier ? |
| 5 | Sometimes I 'd watch their kites going down into the fields overhead , down until they dwindled away out of sight , long before they reached the tops of the trees You ca n't do that often , though , because of all the smog . |
| 6 | While the Prince of Banality is going down as the embodiment of Eighties vulgarity and hype , the museum world and the academy are singing his praises . |
| 7 | Or , for instance , the floating roadway where traffic was going down on the barges to go across the river , it would be well worth any particular company to have a word with the officer on the floating roadway to let their vehicles through first . |
| 8 | ‘ It was n't worth going down on the off-chance , or so I thought . |
| 9 | And er then they started blacklegs and when they started the rest of the firms all came as well then and I remember er going down on the picket lines and er they 'd be all the members there . |
| 10 | This is going down on the table . |
| 11 | We thought about going down on the saturday and staying at Great Yarmouth and then driving to the match . |
| 12 | Chris Pike is back in the side to play Chester tomorrow after going down with the snuffles and sneezes . |
| 13 | WHILE the Ipswich fans taunted ‘ You 're going down with the Arsenal ’ , Town star John Wark predicted that troubled Manchester United could still walk off with the first Premier League Championship . |
| 14 | At the going down of the sun and in the morning |
| 15 | At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them . ’ |
| 16 | Old Lady Bridhe , widowed sister to Eachuinn Odhar and mistress of Duart Castle till Marion arrived , was late going down to the hall . |
| 17 | Benjamin insisted that we shave , wash and change our linen and doublets before going down to the hall . |
| 18 | are you going down to the hall ? |
| 19 | We 're going down to the village . |
| 20 | The guardian asked three climbers going down to the village to inform the police , as he was unable to contact them himself since the refuge radio was broken . |
| 21 | First I 'm going down to the village to fetch old Bonnie and get her to have a look at that ankle . |
| 22 | ‘ I think so , because I checked the door later before going down to the village , and it was locked then , and the key was in my purse . ’ |
| 23 | What with the doctor going straight out and the deceased going down to the kitchen to thank both staff for a very good meal there was n't time — even if she took it herself , which is unlikely from all I hear . ’ |
| 24 | She never fussed when he said that he was going down to the country and did n't know when he 'd be back . |
| 25 | But she made a point of going down to the jetty one day to tell him , ‘ I 'm really glad you found your boat . ’ |
| 26 | The advantage is that there is no line , visible to the fish , coming from the bait , either on the surface or going down to the bottom . |
| 27 | But going down to The Bay were n't no good for us . |
| 28 | I made a fuss about being first in the queue going down to the car-decks . |
| 29 | I thought you was going down to the garages ? |
| 30 | Going down to the beach is one of PHIL ‘ DO N'T KICK SAND IN MY FACE ’ KING 's favourite pastimes . |