Example sentences of "gone [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Look at it now , it 's gone right the way back now , with all that land being reclaimed and warehousing and you name it and docks , new docks , so in the past ten years , what a massive development that has become .
2 Just got in , well it were n't , it had n't gone right the way through , we just turned it over and chu , chucked the sheets and blankets back on once they 'd stopped smouldering and got back on it !
3 A lot of water had certainly gone down the burn since 6th of June .
4 I 'm quite happy to see if we can what we can do , I ca n't guarantee that my Right Honourable Friend will take a different view , but I 'm content to see what we can do and report if your Lordships think that that is suitable , but if we were to do that My Lord , I think it would mean erm er it would mean that all these amendments which are grouped together should not in fact be , be put t to the vote , I mean that means ever er er all your Lordships because I do n't think it would be very fair if I were to say that I would move mine and the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh were c to come along and move his amendment and mine meanwhile has gone down the drainpipe and I do n't think that that would be particularly funny , but the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh I 'm sure would n't do such a dastardly thing like that !
5 Yes it was sort of my library book 's gone down the back of my cupboard mummy !
6 Hughie said : ‘ You can say that shipbuilding in Whitby has gone down the sewer .
7 And , oh , Ellie , if you had n't been here , I 'd have gone down the aisle looking such a fright … ’
8 So I think the people who say , ‘ Oh , he 's gone down the Swanee , he 's talking pop , or he 's writing children 's books , or he 's waving his hands on television , ’ balderdash as far as they 're concerned , I think they 're , they 're just being very stupid .
9 ‘ If they set out from Tara at the hour they intended , they will have gone down the forest road hours earlier . ’
10 And she was on his knee , and their arms were round each other , and though the sun had gone down the garden at that moment was glorious , full of a blaze of splendour that surrounded them like a halo .
11 In this chapter you have discovered many ways in which foods containing dietary fibre can make you feel more satisfied — and the food has not yet gone down the throat .
12 Water , water everywhere but not a drop to drink — because it 's all gone down the sink !
13 So , let's assume that we 've gone down the line of saying that , for a maximum value , Z X times Z Y equals Z X squared .
14 An example would be , if there 's er a strange person g gone up the neighbour 's drive , you know they 're on holiday and you hear a window smash , you need the police there straight away to deal with that .
15 His mother had drunk too much stout , ‘ gone up the school ’ , and had him transferred from metal work to Latin , from Civic Studies to French ; she had paid a maths coach with the earnings of a paper-round she had sent him out on .
16 But I missed the more dramatic sting inflicted on Gloucestershire 's Mark Davies , by a bee which had gone up the trouser leg and reached the left-arm spinner 's more intimate regions .
17 He said they had gone up the Rest and Be Thankful and he had noticed a red van parked in a lay-by which had flashed its lights as they passed .
18 Well this man something wrong and he er had an appointment with a Girran man who was Professor of medicine in Glasgow , he 'd gone up the ladder you know and finished .
19 ‘ Tracker 's gone up the line .
20 Well we was coming down , now the cooker 's gone up the Swannee !
21 Why had he gone up the train himself to get it stopped if he had a walkie-talkie ?
22 I mean they 've gone out the window .
23 The plans we had have gone out the window .
24 Gone out the window !
25 The traffic lights have gone out the middle .
26 Where 's me ashtray gone out the hole ?
27 Where 's the ashtray gone out the hole Bill ?
28 Things had gone well the night before .
29 If all had gone well the husband would have earned very large sums for a long period so that he could have maintained them at least at their standard of living at the time of his death , and made other provisions for the future .
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