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Example sentences for "went down"

  • There we put on old clothes and oilskins, and the tunnel doctor examined us and extracted a written statement that we went down at our own risk and released the company from all liability - much to the disgust of Paddy.

  • I went down to the district attorney from here - routed him out of bed.

  • About noon we went down to Liberty Street, home of burglary insurance.

  • On the Monday following the day of the rupture he went down to the work-room.

  • He went down to the isolation hospital, with Dr.

  • He went down to the field to watch the moon sink under.

  • I would go on, that I might prove myself right to myself, by showing that I could go on, and not be struck dead from heaven.

  • My children, my children, which of you shall I love best?

  • I went down to Civita Vecchia to see him off; and though his younger by many years, I could not but take the liberty of entreating him, as a gentleman and a man of Devon, to consider his faith to his queen and the honor of his country.

  • We went down together: I knew the Indian trick, and being uppermost, had my thumbs in his eyes before he could turn: but he carried me down to the very mud.

  • Many an hour he thought and thought alone, there in his airy nest; and at last he went down, calm and cheerful, and drew Cary and Yeo aside.

  • I went down to the Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah.

  • I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then returned, feeling very much easier.

  • When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone.

  • We went down by the river and saw the Square Tower.

  • But I had to have it; so I went down on my hands and knees, with one slipper on and the other in my hand, and began to paw gently around and rake the floor, but with no success.

  • But Sally, with a towel round her, went down to the water's edge.

  • I saw them in the window last time I went down there.

  • He discovered that she found Sundays at home tedious, so he went down to Herne Hill in the morning, met her at the end of the road, and went to church with her.

  • Only the other night we went down in the auto and watch the bread line.

  • Only the other night -- it was raining and chilly, you know -- some of us went down in the auto to one of the missions and looked at the sufferers who were being cared for.

  • I went down to the waterfront where they sell fish and there I saw a fisherman who had caught a Dogfish, and he cursed, but I said to him, "Do not curse the Dogfish!

  • What I said as I went down was: "Have I been a Symbol?

  • Further, it was you who advised Sekukuni to kill us when we went down to his country to shoot the other day, because you were afraid that we should discover whence he got his guns.

  • He went down, as I believe dead, and that was the end of a very gallant officer and gentleman whose military memory has in my opinion been most unjustly attacked.

  • Dropping the reins, he drew his pistol and managed to send a bullet through that child of nature's head, so that he went down like a stone.

  • So it ended by my accepting, and I went down to Chiltern Grange, about six miles from Farnham.

  • Late in the evening he went down to his own hut.

  • That very night he went down to Woodman's Lee, saw Peter Carey at the hut, quarrelled with him, and killed him with the harpoon.

  • Hannah had told me in the morning there was a letter for me, and when I went down to take it, almost certain that the long-looked for tidings were vouchsafed me at last, I found only an unimportant note from Mr. Briggs on business.

  • Was anybody stirring below when you went down, Jane?

  • He worked very hard all day, and did not leave his room until the evening, when he went down to the theatre, whither Smike had repaired before him to go on with another gentleman as a general rebellion.

  • It must be the latter, for this morning I went down to the local police-station and told my story.

  • It went down at an acute angle for some fifty feet, the floor being covered with broken stone.

  • When he went down to the mill it was usually Mr. Royce, not Enid, who sought to detain him, followed him down the path to the gate and seemed sorry to see him go.

  • The German officer fired his revolver again as he went down, shouting in English, English with no foreign accent, "You swine, go back to Chicago!

  • He went down to Texas with the National Guard.

  • After Claude left her, he did something a Wheeler didn't do; he went down to O street and sent her a box of the reddest roses he could find.

  • Smithers had also endeavoured to pay his court to me, once when I went down to Somersetshire; but I cut his pretensions short, as I have shown.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    adapt themselves; declaring that; divine guidance; indefinite number; more acceptable; next chapter; went aboard; went abroad; went again; went ahead; went aloft; went and; went away; went before; went down; went forth; went forward; went home; went immediately; went off; went quickly; went right; went south; went towards; went under; went upstairs