Example sentences of "gone down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two divers had gone down into the river during the morning , but had found no item of relevance ; and perhaps would not have recognised its relevance had they found it . |
| 2 | The floorboards had n't snapped , as I 'd originally thought : they 'd gone down into the dock with Harry . |
| 3 | and he was let out and first , within twenty four hours he 'd gone down to the South Coast and killed his mother and his girl friend |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened . |
| 5 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 6 | She 'd gone down to the seashore with the dogs and there he 'd been , following her . |
| 7 | Had he gone down to the bottom of the hill and worked his way up to Belvedere Road from the south-east ? |
| 8 | After her abortive attempt to break into journalism , she had gone down to the beach , flung off her dress , and plunged into the water at Backyards . |
| 9 | She thought Finn must have gone down to the workroom . |
| 10 | Theda had gone down to the housekeeper , tight-lipped and curt , to ask that these things be remedied forthwith . |
| 11 | You get wet , sweaty , but there 's nothing to dry the sweat off , not sweating and drying off , so they feel clammy , okay , so we 've looked at their colour and we 've felt their skin and we 've felt that it 's horrible and clammy and cold , what about their pulse , we 've gone down to the pulse now |
| 12 | I could have gone down to the café and talked literature with the lads , but there did n't seem to be much point without Jim and Anna . |
| 13 | Pete 's gone down to the shop and got yourself a bottle whisky . |
| 14 | See , if you had of gone down to the shop |
| 15 | Having gone down with the monarchy in the 1640s and learnt from that experience that its fortunes were closely dependent on those of the crown , the established church was more than ever determined to shore up the monarchy as a means of guaranteeing its own survival . |
| 16 | But look a little more deeply and you will see that something else has happened too ; if a number of people have gone down with the cold , does not it mean that a number of people have not gone down with the cold ? |
| 17 | But look a little more deeply and you will see that something else has happened too ; if a number of people have gone down with the cold , does not it mean that a number of people have not gone down with the cold ? |
| 18 | Sadly the opposition have gone down with the flu . |
| 19 | so I take it he must of gone down with the flu after that then |
| 20 | When Margaret finally foundered , some hoped that he had gone down with the ship , but here he was as buoyant as the Vicar of Bray . |
| 21 | This remedy may come up after a Belladonna sore throat has gone down on the chest . |
| 22 | No one has ever given a satisfactory explanation of why Mr Ford said what he said — and it has gone down in the history books as just another Ford pratfall . |
| 23 | they 've gone down in the world again a bit . |
| 24 | Normally I would have gone down in the passenger pod , but of course the pod was back on Uulaa . |