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Example sentences of "went down [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	It was early morning and I went down to answer a bang on the front door of Dad 's house .
2	And , while the housekeeper went down to call the aunt , Conradin took the toasting-fork out of the dining-room cupboard .
3	I went down to put the kettle on and while I was doing so in walked Albert .
4	But anyway , my Dawn , Dawn 's mother went down to see a show in London not so long ago , stayed er , stayed two nights in a hotel , it was o it was only like ninety odd pound for them .
5	So I went down to see the secretary who I found out was in the flying horse and er told him who I was , Ooh yes , ooh yes , you 're playing this afternoon , are n't you ?
6	Several hours later , after statements and interviews and a considerable number of phonecalls , Owen Nelson went down to take a look at the prisoner in cell number three .
7	WHEN the Royal yacht Britannia berthed at Leith I went down to take a photograph but the police said no one was allowed in .
8	The diver went down to guide the cable into the trench .
9	But Throgmorton went down to examine the priest 's corpse . ’
10	Mark gave me one of Sophie 's doorstops — a sleeping fox , and we went down to visit a friend in the Borders with Ethel for support .
11	We left him and went down to climb the apple trees .
12	I went down to unlock the door , and we came upstairs very quietly .
13	This much I could see from the outside when I went down to have a look at it .
14	So we we moved towards the sound of the glass , and there 's there 's two people in the the garden , so we went down to have a look at them .
15	I went down to have a word with the promotion yesterday and er we have er come to terms and er we are all ready to go for next year .
16	She went down to make a drink , and as she turned the light on in the dingy kitchen a dark thing shot across the floor to disappear under the dresser .