Example sentences of "went down [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time . |
| 2 | You cool little sod , thought Toby , and reluctantly went down to the front drive . |
| 3 | Kalchu went down to the stable and selected a he-goat . |
| 4 | He was a final-year student there when he went down to the provincial town of Kecskemet to earn some pocket money by delivering lectures . |
| 5 | When Ruth went down to the lower deck it was a hive of activity , with the strangest thing she had so far seen taking place . |
| 6 | He passed under the rock where Ellwood was sitting and went down to the narrow spit where he always stood to fish . |
| 7 | When they 'd putted out he went down to the 7th tee . |
| 8 | Apricot waited until her exams were over and then went down to the Catholic church and hung about until she met Bernard coming out of confession . |
| 9 | They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office … |
| 10 | we , we went and you know park where we normally park and went down to the United chip shop and er we got our chips and stood outside |
| 11 | Fifteen years , is three pound eighty , yes , so , you , I think you must have gone down , yes you went down to the level one , yes ? |
| 12 | My master wandered out and I unpacked my belongings , washed , changed and went down to the sumptuous banquet Santerre 's cooks had prepared for us . |
| 13 | He , too , was caught up in the excitement for jazz and with Bobby and other students went down to the Red Barn at Barnehurst , a half-hour run from Charing Cross , to hear George Webb 's Dixielanders , the band that pioneered the New Orleans revival in Britain . |
| 14 | And then you had yuppies , but nobody mixed , and the feeling , if you went down to the Turkish |
| 15 | We went down to the white-washed infirmary where I made Benjamin stop at the kitchen for rags soaked in vinegar and herbs . |
| 16 | Gathering himself , he dismissed her and went down to the waiting car . |
| 17 | She went down to the next floor and called Rosa Kenny . |
| 18 | ‘ I only realised he was any good when he was 13 and went down to the English schools Under-14 championships at Queens one Monday . |
| 19 | He was never remotely stumped when an item went down at the last moment and the presenter was left with a minute to fill . |
| 20 | Confrontation with the United States was followed by the more dramatic confrontations with the French at Moruroa atoll where the goaded French beat up Greenpeace 's skipper , McTaggart , rammed a protest boat and eventually murdered a photographer who went down with the sabotaged Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour in July 1985 . |
| 21 | We 'd have a respite of about a fortnight if we were lucky before he went down with the next one . |
| 22 | ‘ Matilda is the late King 's daughter , Hugh , and we all took that oath to recognise her as the future queen after her brother went down with the White Ship , ’ protested the Prior . |
| 23 | He went down through the lower hall to the kitchen , drank some water . |
| 24 | The water was thick and brown and went down through the top end of Spaladale at a fearful rate . |
| 25 | Furious , Wilson went down into the freezing kitchen , where the well banked-up fire had not quite died down , and poked it vigorously until it began to burn up . |
| 26 | He went down into the foetid holds of the ‘ sick ships ’ of the second fleet where hundreds lay dying or ill . |
| 27 | They cleared the thick , wooded hills of Oxford and went down into the open countryside . |
| 28 | But despite the handicap Essex made a terrific fight of it and only went down off the penultimate ball . |
| 29 | The SS Samtampa went down off the Welsh coast in a terrible storm exactly 45 years ago . |
| 30 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |