Example sentences of "went down [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see from the onlooking faces that he was coming for me and at what speed , and when I felt the air behind me move and heard the brush of his clothes I went down fast on one knee and whirled and punched upwards hard into the bottom of his advancing rib cage and then shifted my weight into his body and upwards so as to lift him wholesale off the floor , and before he 'd got that sorted out I had one of his wrists in my hand and he ended up on his feet with me behind him , his arm in a nice painful lock and my mouth by his ear . |
| 2 | Old favourites from the Cherry and Frozen EP went down well with much thumping of the air and pogoing . |
| 3 | But woolly as his arguments were , they went down well with discontented people , and particularly with certain sections of the unemployed . |
| 4 | It went down well with plump rabbit served with deep-fried julienne basket of fennel , rack of lamb with aubergine , and turbot in a creamy tarragon sauce . |
| 5 | Because his budget went down well with Tory MPs ( see page 39 ) , however , Mr Major has given Mrs Thatcher a valuable breather . |
| 6 | In the Republican 1980s , when the spending of government money on industrial research and development was not in favour , such appeals to crypto-industrial policy went down well in some quarters . |
| 7 | Huge amber clouds — ‘ symbols of a high romance ’ — floated across a brilliant blue sky , and the sun went down dramatically with vertical shafts of crimson , fake flames behind the pine trees , the birds — many of them new to her — still shouting after dark . |
| 8 | Went down there with all the wine bottles from Christmas do n't do but and then it 's completely ruined ! |
| 9 | went down there till late . |