Example sentences of "went down [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Rothmans Honda team member broke his right leg in five places when he went down for a second time during the opening championship round on a wet Suzuka circuit .
2 The match revealed the Athletico lads had lost none of their flair and inadequacies for the game as they narrowly went down to a 7–2 defeat .
3 Surkov , in a Yale T-shirt , was sitting alone at a table when I went down to a late breakfast .
4 suffered their fifth defeat in a row when they went down to a narrow 17–15 defeat in the Shield at home to Knottingley .
5 suffered their fifth defeat in a row when they went down to a narrow 17–15 defeat in the Shield at home to Knottingley .
6 However , he went down to a promising Dubliner Noel Higgins of Glasnevin 13–11 .
7 For Labour supporters , 1931 was the election when the party went down to a cataclysmic and catastrophic defeat , betrayed by MacDonald and deserted by its working class supporters …
8 So what happens if you have , just supposing you went down to a crazy way o of means testing .
9 SUNDERLAND caretaker boss Malcolm Crosby was full of praise for his reserve side who went down to a single goal defeat to star-studded Manchester United Reserve side at Roker Park on Wednesday evening .
10 We went down to an awful Wimpy Bar opposite Chagueramas — which later became The Roxy .
11 The leaderene went down with a satisfying thump , her spiked coronet falling off .
12 On the third day out , Rachel went down with a high temperature and swellings in the groin .
13 He went down on a loose ball and my boot landed on him .
14 Fl Lt McNally was one of nine members of the RAF crew killed when the plane , went down during a low-level training exercise in the Grampians two weeks ago .
15 All nine members of the crew were killed when their RAF Hercules went down during a treacherous low level flying mission through the Grampians 19 days ago .
16 She 'd expected a steady upward climb , but suddenly the tunnel dipped and steps went down beside a white race of water .
17 They left the deserted house , the old manservant locking the door behind them , and went down into a deserted Cheapside .
18 The sun spangled on the water as it went down into a red wrack of clouds .
19 But seconds later both the England striker and his team recovered their self respect when he netted a Samways cross — although it finally went down as an own goal by Higgins .
20 When the Titanic was finally located on the sea-bed a crew went down in a tiny submarine to explore the wreckage .
21 The late arrival by 13 minutes of three of their key players left Peterlee with too much work to do at Consett where they went down in a first division game by 91 points to 58 as they were left wondering what effect Ivor James , Gord Laing and Allen Quarmby might have had had they been there for the start .
22 He then attacked a third which went down in a vertical dive , apparently into the sea .
23 But Dreadnought , let alone all her other weak places , had been holed amidships by a baulk of timber , and before long the water poured into her with a sound like a sigh and she went down in a few seconds .
24 The Fishguard-based crabber Inspire went down in a calm sea when a huge wave swamped it .
25 they lost by six at Crewe … won by five against Colchester … and then went down in an eight goal bonanza last week …
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