Example sentences of "went down [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 After delivering his message of support to the organic movement at Cirencester , he held a seminar at Kensington Palace to air the issues , and he and John Higgs subsequently went down to Elm Farm to investigate the possibilities of employing organic methods on the home farm .
2 The boys went down to breakfast , which the girl Charlotte had made for them .
3 The next morning , having hardly slept , she went down to breakfast feeling dreadful .
4 I dressed and shaved and went down to breakfast under the colonnade .
5 When she went down to breakfast there was the background noise of caterers clearing away the vestiges of the ball .
6 He went down to breakfast and was relieved to find that the Captain had not yet come down .
7 Dressed in a white sweater and faded jeans , Rachel went down to breakfast , her hair a mass of fresh curls after her shower .
8 That dull feeling followed her around as she showered , went down to breakfast , and returned to her room to consider what to do with her day .
9 Carolyn went down to tea slowly , feeling apprehensive .
10 She said goodbye to her mother and went down to tea .
11 C : I went down to Muirhouse
12 Fabia got busy with her packing and , that done , she went down to Reception to pay her bill .
13 Gloucester just missed the boat again on saturday … they went down to league leaders Wasps in London … the score fourteen … nine
14 They say it went down to minus ten last night . ’
15 They thought it normal for Daddy to get them up and dress and breakfast them , before he went down to morning surgery , and for Lucy once she was up to spend ages talking excitedly and gesticulating on the telephone , before consigning them ( with a kiss on the head ) to Nissy while she disappeared to the study to practise , and the house was filled with the cello 's dismal squeaks and groans , which always recovered eventually , into more or less of a tune .
16 I went down to dinner .
17 When they were no more than damp , I went down to dinner .
18 Fabia went down to dinner that night and could n't help thinking that , even though it was certain that he was n't staying in the same hotel , or he 'd have said so , perhaps he might decide to have his dinner there .
19 She was determined that it was n't he who had affected her appetite either , and went down to dinner that night and ate quite a substantial meal , only to return to her room and spend the next hour again having trouble ousting the wretched man .
20 In the third division Hereford could have done with some luck … they went down at home
21 In the third division Hereford could have done with some luck … they went down at home
22 Annfield found their hopes of finishing in the top four being dimmed when they went down at home Boldon CA .
23 After a heroic week of earth moving , he went down with heatstroke .
24 Got Cos I went down with dad as well did n't I ?
25 Here the dirt of the steamer , and the filth of the station , caught up with poor Mig who went down with dysentery .
26 Steven Clark , the leading points winner in the boys ' event over the LTA 's 114 and Under Indoor Winter Series of tournaments , went down with appendicitis two days before the latest tournament , played at the Gosling Sports Park during March .
27 The Manchester premiere in March 1974 had to be cancelled when Crawford went down with laryngitis .
28 And he found himself in the starting line-up when top scorer Chris Kiwomya went down with flu .
29 Director Asquith went down with lumbago on his New Year return to Sweden for editing conferences .
30 He went down with influenza symptoms on Tuesday evening .
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