Example sentences of "going down [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Westmacott then saw two ‘ red noses ’ coming up and thought they were from his own flight , as he called his pilots to rendezvous over Takali , going down through cloud to wait for them . |
| 2 | you 're going down into park |
| 3 | The words which I have read are plain : it was Mr. Vanbergen who said he was going down to Eastbourne , that he was going down as part of his business , and that he did not think he would be getting back after his business on Thursday in time to pay it on Thursday , and the concession arose out of the question whether or not the debtor could be back in town in time to bring it himself , because he frankly said he was trying to get a little more time . |
| 4 | Supposed to be going down on weekend of fifteenth but when she phones on Thursday I 'm going to tell her to come during the week . |
| 5 | Short of the holocaust , when everything will be blown away on the wind of oblivion , there is no reason to believe that we will see the lights going down on capitalism in our lifetime . |
| 6 | If you remember , when you met Lexy she was going down with flu — her best friend would n't have recognised her voice . |
| 7 | Scotland could n't manage more than a tweak of the giants ' noses , but showed that there 's still such a thing as going down with honour . |
| 8 | They 're always going down for anaesthetic , we ca n't find it . |
| 9 | used to be er , you know as you 're going down to infirmary down from you turn right on the road do n't you ? |
| 10 | Thursday dawned as dully as the day before and Fabia got out of bed and went through the routine of getting showered and dressed and going down to breakfast with a total lack of enthusiasm or appetite . |
| 11 | And now I 'm going down to granny . |
| 12 | ‘ G ’ , while going down to second placed Marconi ‘ B ’ . |
| 13 | Seemed to be going down to south coast of the river |
| 14 | Going down to clause 3 : |
| 15 | By going down to sea level , you can walk out on to the Rocker de la Vierge , reached by a short gangway , which has a statue of the Virgin on top and the beginnings of a jetty planned by the Emperor Napoleon III but never finished because the sea kept demolishing it . |
| 16 | " I believe in the instinctive wisdom of our well-tried democracy , " declared Churchill in 1945 — shortly before going down to election defeat . |
| 17 | Try and do something about your face before going down to dinner . ’ |
| 18 | His season was cut to just four races , the first three of which he won impressively before going down to Forest Sun in the Rendlesham Hurdle at Kempton already suffering from a bug . |
| 19 | Here 's your reservoir going down to town , there 's a a big drop there they 'd normally put it through the turbine and pick up some free electricity |
| 20 | She stayed in her room all day , going down at quarter-past six to telephone her mother . |
| 21 | Whole sections of the City were trampled flat , buildings going down like balsa wood . |
| 22 | The number of injuries is actually going down in proportion to the increased number of skiers . |
| 23 | It can be gathered from every conversation that the people 's comrades from all walks of life want a return to the living standard of the pre-war era as soon as possible , and do n't lay the slightest value on going down in history . ’ |
| 24 | And if we , yeah , and if we , yeah we 'll still win we , well we 're still going down in history for winning three fo , , all three matches in a row . |
| 25 | Aksum had outlasted Jerusalem and Rome , going down in ruin only eighty years before the Norman conquest of Britain . |