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

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1 Trading vessels went down the canal every week to Grimsby and Hull and every month to London .
2 so you could pull it up and down and the effects went out the bottom of the tube , the tube came up like that and it came over , and like that and then the shade would be like that and then you could swing it round
3 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 .
4 That 's why so many of our sons went down the mine — to stop the family becoming homeless .
5 But for 15 minutes before the curtains went up the audience must have thought that the obnoxious Sheriff of Nottigham was sitting immediately behind me …
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