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

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31 The hand closed over the receiver picked up vibration , and the cord to the microphone went up the wearer 's sleeve unobtrusively .
32 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 .
33 A large proportion of balls went down the leg side , which was not the ideal means of curtailing the driving of Boon , Briers and Whitaker .
34 so he just kept going , so the pick-up jammed its anchors on , there was a Rover it was coming the other way , the Rover went up the verge
35 we 'll go straight up to Taughmonagh go down the town early in the morning and I 'll take you to the shop where they maybe get you a rugby jumper
36 Notice how the grain goes up the body of Teddy , and his elbow nestles in the cushion
37 If the red ball goes down the edge of the white ball ?
38 So for the the water to go down the current to flow through .
39 Once it happens we we , our credibility with our customers goes out the window does n't it ?
40 Inside illustration : why is art going down the tubes ?
41 He was going to put the medals back in his drawer and listen out of the window for Lee going up the field , listen for the sheep .
42 I just make them see the colour going up the stem of a plant .
43 The ball went down the Leeds left wing and was turned onto Deanes outstretching head .
44 Barn owls ' leg feathers go right the way down to their feet , which makes them much more vulnerable than , say , a falcon , which has scaly skin on its legs that toughens up very quickly during training .
45 ‘ 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 . ’
46 ‘ It is an elevated green , so I did n't actually see the ball go down the hole , ’ he told BPXpress .
47 My wife went down the fellside to a cottage and the lady kindly called 999 for help .
48 Create the wrong fiscal package and a Third World country 's chances of development go down the tube .
49 You could get to I know Graham went to , which is way out , other went up the Kimberley and that area , and other went to Sutton .
50 He had learned one vital piece of information where Riddle went on the night of his disappearance — and he had no wish to persecute these youngsters , who seemed to have acted with good intentions .
51 Sea-bed geology goes up the mountains
52 And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same
53 And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same .
54 And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same
55 A two-phase clock signal is merely an anti-phase type ( i.e. as one signal goes low the other goes high , and vice versa ) .
56 As soon as steam trains were invented , up and running , they became the tools of the industrialist and of the punter on holiday , noisy , smelly , usually late , and the last word in ways to go down the coast .
57 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 . ’
58 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 .
59 Yes , I must admit I had one or two people going up the loo and looking , I mean people stop and look when we first had all the stuff outside , you know , what you doing in there ?
60 This time it was a police sergeant , and when Joe went upstairs the sergeant said : " I am looking for Wg Cdr Mahaddie , and I am also looking for one of my constables , " Joe foolishly replied : We might have a wing commander here but we do n't have your constable . "
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