Example sentences of "[verb] gone down [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has gone down a treat with the members , who have a lot of affection for him , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ Biochemistry , I see Mrs Hayman 's cholesterol has gone down a bit — Lizzie 's chest X-ray — haematology , Betty 's haemoglobin 's not too good — oh , the Hazell family 's tissue-typing results — ’ She gazed at them shaking her head sadly . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | Hughie said : ‘ You can say that shipbuilding in Whitby has gone down the sewer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And , oh , Ellie , if you had n't been here , I 'd have gone down the aisle looking such a fright … ’ |
| 7 | This is bloody hard work — if I 'd wanted a holiday like this I could have gone down the mines for a fortnight . ’ |
| 8 | But much of the money spent in Berlin , Sydney , Istanbul , Bejing , and Milan , Manchester 's rivals , will have gone down the tubes . |
| 9 | ‘ If they set out from Tara at the hour they intended , they will have gone down the forest road hours earlier . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , there is 5000 tonnes a year of , presumably , both mildly and highly toxic wastes that appears to have gone down a hole somewhere — perhaps literally . |
| 12 | At several sites , protesting miners were reported to have gone down the pits and stayed there following the announcement . |
| 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 | No I think , I thought we still had a chance , albeit you know the odds had gone down a bit or increased , but er no I thought we still had a chance , it was gon na be harder because if we lost any more by the wayside then you know you 're gon na be , it would 've been very awkward . |
| 15 | It had gone down a lot though . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Only one thing about that pool , ’ Hugh said , depositing Jacqueline wrapped in a damp towel like a warm parcel in his wife 's arms , ‘ the tide 's gone down a bit . |
| 18 | Petrol 's gone down a bit . |
| 19 | But it 's gone down a lot . |
| 20 | Yes it was sort of my library book 's gone down the back of my cupboard mummy ! |
| 21 | 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 . |