Example sentences of "going down [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally with him she had the sense she was going down through a hole in the floor . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 — |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You going down on a weekend darling ? |
| 6 | It was rather pathetic sometimes because he was upset at somebody going down on a discipline charge and getting the sack . |
| 7 | I do n't know if I 'm going down with a cold or something . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But erm you see , they suggested going down for a meeting he 's up to his eyes in it ! |
| 10 | I 'm going down for a week from 10 May to see many of them . |
| 11 | There 's an underground thing — you know , steps going down to a station , so I go down there and wander around for a bit . |
| 12 | There 's a garden going down to a stream . |
| 13 | Madeleine said she did n't mind , but you could see his lordship was going down like a dose of castor oil . |
| 14 | And you get silences on the phone and you 're thinking this is going down like a lead balloon . |
| 15 | Apart from an uncharacteristic first fence fall at Ascot on his third start , the only other time he was beaten was when going down by a half length to Minnehoma in the Sun Alliance Chasethe novices Gold Cup . |
| 16 | DESPITE a display full of commitment and endeavour , Ipswich lost their eighth Courage League game of the season , going down by a goal and a try to two penalties . |
| 17 | Right we 're going down in a minute , yeah . |
| 18 | The sky now suddenly seemed clear except for a CR 42 going down in a spin ahead of me . |
| 19 | Erm I went er at the end of September and I did white water rafting , going down in a raft er seven to a boat , and going over the rapids wearing a |