Example sentences of "be [adv] go [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I am happy to give my hon. Friend the assurance that we are not going down the route of a federal Europe .
2 As long as you 're not going up the village
3 You 're na you 're not going down the pit ?
4 I said No , no-one at home was , Everyone at home had said , You 're not going down the pit .
5 Oh yes , they are still going down the pan , to the tune of £1 billion a year in the UK , according to the Management Consultancies Association .
6 I 'm glad I , I 'm not going up the chimney !
7 ‘ Because we are n't going down the ladder .
8 Lambert realized that far below the barrage was still pounding away ; that the observers reports were still going down the telephone wire , correcting ranges and bearings , selecting new targets from the shop window of the British Front .
9 If I also say to him that the lesson we learn from the United States is not to go down the route that he and his party have signed up to in signing up to a socialist manifesto for the European elections .
10 and he 's now going up the point of the house but he ca n't get no further .
11 Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ .
12 ‘ It 's my life which is about to go down the plughole .
13 The US factories had evolved into organisations that set out tightly circumscribed jobs , fixed procedures , absolutely nothing in terms of flexible working , multi-skilling , employee responsiveness — any of those sorts of things — and they took a look at Japanese cost patterns and thought that American industry was just going down the plug . ’
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