Example sentences of "the [noun] go down the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A BR spokeswoman said : ‘ The gang went down the train smashing windows and light bulbs and scaring the passengers .
2 It will typically take several hours for the car to go down the line , hundreds of workers will be directly involved in fitting the various bits and pieces , and each will have a cycle time of perhaps 60 seconds to do their allotted task .
3 While the deal goes down the rest of them wait next door .
4 We keep our trainees hard at it and even when the sun goes down the programme continues .
5 Hopefully much will be computerised like the FAA 's at present , where the form and the ECG go down the phone line to America .
6 The crawl went down the Strand , past St James 's , Belgravia and Mayfair , calling at the embassies of Australia , Canada , India , Bolivia , Peru , Columbia , Ecuador , Mexico , Myanmar , the USA and Brazil .
7 Half five in a morning , with the rain going down the back of your bleeding neck , the police set upon you by the owner and the manager , eh , that 'd liven 'em up .
8 So for the the water to go down the current to flow through .
9 The ball went down the Leeds left wing and was turned onto Deanes outstretching head .
10 ‘ It is an elevated green , so I did n't actually see the ball go down the hole , ’ he told BPXpress .
11 ‘ Barmen all over the world acquired a fair percentage of my money , ’ Jimmy regrets ‘ And the rest went down the plughole with various business ventures . ’
12 Er you ca n't imagine this I do n't suppose , but nevertheless it 's true and in a time , the men in the shop they was mass-production , you know what I mean and they wanted this or that or the other , well I had the authority to go down the machine shop and tell them , look here , so and so wants this you do that .
13 These Chelsea-supporting , three-minute Johnnies have been taking the piss out of ordinary folk for too long , indulging their libidos at our nation 's expense , laughing while communities crumble , hospitals are shut and the economy goes down the pan . ’
14 After questioning 600 non-information technology directors and 1,200 information technology ones , Graham Browne of market research group International Data Corp , concluded that , unless the Government goes down the facilities management path — which he believes is questionable — the UK market is unlikely to experience the 30% per annum growth rate generally forecast .
15 You mentioned that there 's a great degree of toughness since 1979 on Treasury targets and public expenditure , and the word goes down the line and there 's no argument .
16 ‘ One of these stations is located about every 70 kms to boost pressure as the oil goes down the pipeline , en route to the export terminals on the Black Sea and the Baltic — a distance of at least 2,000 kilometres from Western Siberia . ’
17 That was by that was by normal recruits but it still happens it , actually the the bullying goes down the line .
18 If we 're talking about using this sy er type of system for running mission critical systems where if the database goes down the business stops running and starts losing money , then we need to be able to run twenty four hours a day seven days a week .
19 The loco went down the embankment taking some of the tanks with it , and the wreckage together with trees standing in the field were enveloped in flames which took several hours to extinguish .
20 Anyone with chest pains should also go to the doctor , especially if the pain goes down the arm .
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