Example sentences of "go down the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy watched them going down the lane . |
| 2 | yeah and I was being sly about it , going down the lane not standing right outside his house , right . |
| 3 | If I said to you , ‘ I saw a chair going down the road yesterday and … ’ you would interrupt and say , ‘ That belongs to Mr So-and-So , 316 Carphalute Quadrant North , Lesmahagow , AND his dog has the croup , and last year he lost his … ‘ ’ |
| 4 | The old milkman going down the road reading the paper is n't he ? |
| 5 | For example , if I measure a car traveling down the highway , I might think it had moved only one kilometer , but to someone on the sun , it would have moved about 1,800 kilometers , because the earth would have moved while the car was going down the road . |
| 6 | Silly , was n't it , when all I was doing was going down the road to the Post Office ? |
| 7 | I said that I feared going down the road of different regional governments having different tax rates . |
| 8 | Then I heard the front door close and the sound of his car going down the road . |
| 9 | N H S , Local Authorities , multi-nationals , are all going down the road local bargaining . |
| 10 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |
| 11 | Those who live with it day and night are now going down the road to compensation , and a legal battle with the Department of Transport . |
| 12 | There 's a funeral procession going down the road with hundreds of people following the hearse . |
| 13 | There 's a funeral procession going down the road with hundreds of people following the hearse . |
| 14 | The shadow home secretary , Tony Blair , claimed the plans were going down the road of centralised policing when the reverse was needed . |
| 15 | The shadow home secretary , Tony Blair , claimed the plans were going down the road of centralised policing when the reverse was needed . |
| 16 | You 're going down the road |
| 17 | I hope to God nobody 's acce a you know , going down the road and |
| 18 | well it 's not worth going down the road to come back up to that pub |
| 19 | The Renault five turbo going down the road and had a crash and it split in two did n't it ? |
| 20 | There are fears of family life going down the drain , as staff may get only two complete weekends off in seven . |
| 21 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 22 | It 's not just this town that is going down the drain , it is the country . |
| 23 | That 's why this country 's going down the drain . |
| 24 | She says it 's going down the drain . |
| 25 | ‘ It is time ministers took steps to stop this public money going down the drain . ’ |
| 26 | Yeah , talent going down the drain . |
| 27 | ‘ I was thinking of going down the pub . ’ |
| 28 | It seems yonks since leeds were last on TV , the pleasure of going down the pub and getting tanked whilst being generally rowdy and watching the footy is a joy to behold , second only to actually going to the game itself … not long to go now … |
| 29 | O K , erm , David , age fifty one , he 's been with T N T since his , erm , Dave 's hobbies , he goes to car rallies , and he 's very involved with politics , he also likes going down the pub and playing darts and having an . |
| 30 | It also gives a ready answer to anyone asking why you do n't get a job instead of going down the pub . |