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

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1 Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ?
2 The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task .
3 Water , water everywhere but not a drop to drink — because it 's all gone down the sink !
4 I pulled off my boots , put the stick between my teeth and gently went down the rope into the water .
5 If they 're becoming as disabled as you think they are , they wo n't be allowed just to go down the way to the shops will they if the nearest shops are twenty miles down the road !
6 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 . ’
7 I was in the supermarket the other day and then this bloke , I saw this bloke pick up this massive bottle of er vinegar right , and he took the top off there was some old woman just going down the aisle and he just started pouring it all over her
8 Sometimes they just go over the top .
9 " Why not just go along the bank ? " asked Hawkbit .
10 They 're not old enough to go to the pubs , or they do n't seem old enough , so they just go down the park and get drunk .
11 Just go down the plaza here , turn right into the old section of the building , and it 's a few doors down on the right .
12 I was n't sure if there or well there may be so whatever reasons it just went out the window .
13 I 'm not going to Nettos today I 'll make do just go down the bottom .
14 she always goes out the pub crying .
15 There 's a lot more going out the gate for a start Stu .
16 There 's a lot hell of a lot more going out the gate
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Design faults meant that each new station required major alterations ; any hope of a production line quickly went out the window .
20 We shall go on expanding higher and further education to ensure more of our young people go on to college as naturally as they once went down the pit or onto the shop floor .
21 with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night !
22 So Neighbourhood Watch really goes out the picture .
23 and he 's now going up the point of the house but he ca n't get no further .
24 We cook it as I say I mean but I do n't often go up the chip shop .
25 Oh yes I know one man there now , well he 's so dumb he 'd rather go down the hold , than he would do marking the pencil and paper .
26 He 's so thick , you know he 'll say right I 'll go down the hold , I 'll do the humping , what they call humping , he 'll do that , loading these slings or bags , rather than him standing there and say well ten bags in that sling , put ten down , he could n't do that , so he 'd rather go down the hold that 's happened .
27 This cars turned round even to go out the bottom of there 's been an accident oh .
28 I think we 're gon na phone them up tonight , can I have some money please to go down the chippie ?
29 Well I just thought I 'd go over now and I might as well go down the shop when
30 But it is so vindictively cold in this ill-lit room , and my alabaster hand aches so much from the thousands of words I have put down on this unhappy day , and my head still throbs , and my stomach is so empty , and my grief is so heavy , that I think it would be wise of me to break off at this point , this hinge , blow out the once again guttering candle and for the third time today go down the stone stairs to streets where it is always February .
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