Example sentences of "going [prep] the dogs " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder the country is going to the dogs . |
| 2 | I was going to the dogs . ‘ |
| 3 | ZIMBABWE , according to the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia , Ian Smith , is ‘ going to the dogs ’ . |
| 4 | Country 's going to the dogs — men out of work everywhere — there 's no money about … . |
| 5 | ‘ Going to the dogs , if you ask me . ’ |
| 6 | But things really are going to the dogs . ’ |
| 7 | In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . |
| 8 | All you did was sit round like some old colonel in an Agatha Christie book , bellowing about the country going to the dogs . |
| 9 | And finally tonight , if you 're going to the dogs at Armadale , Eubank runs in the fifth and Madonna goes in the tenth . |