Example sentences of "[verb] gone [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ! |
2 | Hughie said : ‘ You can say that shipbuilding in Whitby has gone down the sewer . |
3 | Los Angeles , California-based Tiger Media , the multimedia authoring start-up , has gone down the tubes : its venture capitalists sold off the assets last month to New Hampshire-based AimTech Inc , a PC company . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | And , oh , Ellie , if you had n't been here , I 'd have gone down the aisle looking such a fright … ’ |
6 | This is bloody hard work — if I 'd wanted a holiday like this I could have gone down the mines for a fortnight . ’ |
7 | But much of the money spent in Berlin , Sydney , Istanbul , Bejing , and Milan , Manchester 's rivals , will have gone down the tubes . |
8 | ‘ If they set out from Tara at the hour they intended , they will have gone down the forest road hours earlier . ’ |
9 | I learned to canoe years ago when three of us put borrowed boats in the water at Glasbury and pulled them out , finally , several days later at Tintern , having gone down the Wye . |
10 | At several sites , protesting miners were reported to have gone down the pits and stayed there following the announcement . |
11 | I mean they 've gone out the window . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Nobody 's modelled themselves on us , they 've gone more the Roses and the Mondays . |
14 | Things had gone well the night before . |
15 | 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 . |
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 | 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 . |
19 | The traffic lights have gone out the middle . |
20 | The plans we had have gone out the window . |
21 | ‘ Tracker 's gone up the line . |
22 | Well we was coming down , now the cooker 's gone up the Swannee ! |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Yes it was sort of my library book 's gone down the back of my cupboard mummy ! |
25 | 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 . |