Example sentences of "go down into the " in BNC.

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1 Your name goes down into the future as Mary Shelley . ’
2 Misumenops nepenthicola , a spider , lives there and captures flies ; if these are distasteful they are ( sometimes ) thrown back into the pitcher ; if disturbed , the spider goes down into the liquid on a thread , its armour and a bubble of air making it immune to the digestive juices there .
3 From year to year they used the same handrails to go down into the past : lifting the cartwheel at the crossroads , the drilling sessions by the river , the first ambush , marching at night between the safe houses , the different characters in the houses , the food , the girls …
4 Agnes stood directly in front of her mother now as she said , ‘ Would it do you any harm either to go down into the shop or to go over to the house and change the linen ?
5 That I may be able to go down into the Saxon crypt of a cathedral , a tiny , exquisitely rude little chapel , where a thousand years ago my forefathers knelt in prayer , is a draught of pure oxygen .
6 Nevertheless : If a teacher has , himself , to go down into the library with the whole class , or if you can only afford a third of a teacher to be in the library at certain times , then you are quite simply restricting the amount of work that can go on .
7 The tape measure had now to go down into the hollow as well as across the circle , and it was not long enough to do this .
8 My husband was mad on golf , and he used to go down into the park and send golf balls onto the lawn and then walk back through the rose garden which I put in the wrong place .
9 And was the water there to go down into the villages ?
10 Most of them would not go on , but three were brave enough to go down into the valley .
11 Sometimes I 'd watch their kites going down into the fields overhead , down until they dwindled away out of sight , long before they reached the tops of the trees You ca n't do that often , though , because of all the smog .
12 ‘ There 's a small window in the second room with a large pipe going down into the moat outside , ’ he went on .
13 Er because the pit bottom was lit up and it meant going down into the dark , an exciting thought for a young fella , er and so off I went and I was put down on one of the faces , as a lad , and said , Right lad , you want to be collier ?
14 We can go down into the village .
15 He would go down into the cellar tomorrow and put down some rat poison .
16 From the time that I was about ten , I used to look forward to Mr. Golding 's visits , for sometimes on never-to-be-forgotten occasions he would let me go down into the cellar with him .
17 She could go down into the town centre and look at the shops , have a cup of coffee somewhere , get back to her mother-in-law by four .
18 What happens is o you know , you know that erm twelve people have their feet washed er during that erm service , and erm what we wanted was six confirmation ca er candidates to actually have their feet washed on the sanctuary erm by Father and then to ask those six to then go down into the congregation and wash the feet of one other person each making twelve altogether .
19 From the top you can go down into the old crater via a scree slope which , viewed from the other side , looks impossibly steep ( ’ I 'm never going down there ! ’ ) but is actually quite easy ( the descent is 600ft . ) .
20 As long as you do n't go down into the attic , I 'm sure I 've told you this , he goes as long as you do n't go down into the attic .
21 As long as you do n't go down into the attic , I 'm sure I 've told you this , he goes as long as you do n't go down into the attic .
22 The young Germans went down into the crypt , pulling you after them .
23 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 .
24 Some of the boys followed and we went down into the basement and I turned the phonograph on as loud as it would play .
25 As they went down into the cellar bar they were given a loud hello ! by Mary Mauchline , one of their party .
26 I remember a December night : I heard the church clock strike nine as I went down into the garden — it was warm enough to walk .
27 We went down into the station shelter and I experienced the familiar claustrophobic sensation of waiting for something to happen .
28 On one occasion a team of five men went down into the tunnels for which purpose they had to pass through the line of empty stabled cars .
29 I then went down into the cockpit , where I counted eleven of our best men lying dead .
30 We went down into the crypt where the wooden hand of Capitaine Danjou lay in a glass case .
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