Example sentences of "go down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are fears of family life going down the drain , as staff may get only two complete weekends off in seven . |
| 2 | We kept very still inside and in the end we could hear them slowly going down the stairs and going away . |
| 3 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 4 | If I said to you , ‘ I saw a chair going down the road yesterday and … ’ you would interrupt and say , ‘ That belongs to Mr So-and-So , 316 Carphalute Quadrant North , Lesmahagow , AND his dog has the croup , and last year he lost his … ‘ ’ |
| 5 | With our new spirit of centralization , both as an interim in the matter of teachers ' pay and conditions , and in that of the curriculum , and the more general removal of powers from Local Authorities , it may well be that we are imperceptibly going down the French road . |
| 6 | Harry and David were the Brigade 's first horses but , soon after his arrival , David fell going down the Hill to Haversham , and was returned to Euston . |
| 7 | Pedestrians going down the steps from the bus stop are hidden by trees and shrubs and have to either walk in the road or cross over to find a pavement . |
| 8 | They landed at Inverkeithing and made their way up the cliffs , the summer sun warming their backs , past Aberdour onto Kinghorn Ness , Corbett showing them the place King Alexander III allegedly fell , before going down the path to the royal manor . |
| 9 | Lucy watched them going down the lane . |
| 10 | At dawn she was woken briefly by the sound of the sports car going down the drive . |
| 11 | ‘ I walked out of the hospital and was going down the path and a nurse came running out and shouted at me to stop . |
| 12 | It 's not just this town that is going down the drain , it is the country . |
| 13 | Marco was going down the steps to the airlock . |
| 14 | Marco was going down the steps to the airlock . |
| 15 | Going down the stairs is a very bad idea . |
| 16 | The only person that she spoke to on the whole crossing was a young man who fell on top of her as she and he were going down the stairs : he was following her , two steps behind , when the boat gave a violent lurch and he missed his footing and crashed into her , and she too missed her footing , and they both sat down together upon the stairs . |
| 17 | But just then there was a sound in the hall , the door to outside shut , and Jasper , jumping up to look , reported it was Philip going down the street . |
| 18 | You watch him going down the street to the harbour . |
| 19 | He 's got a bit of a roll on going down the hill would you not agree ? |
| 20 | The old milkman going down the road reading the paper is n't he ? |
| 21 | So at eight o'clock that evening , Bathsheba found herself , in spite of her doubts , climbing the hill near her house and going down the other side . |
| 22 | I 'm going down the steps three weeks ago , and er one of them front me , the other behind me but how I tripped up I do n't know . |
| 23 | For example , if I measure a car traveling down the highway , I might think it had moved only one kilometer , but to someone on the sun , it would have moved about 1,800 kilometers , because the earth would have moved while the car was going down the road . |
| 24 | That 's why this country 's going down the drain . |
| 25 | His door opened and closed , quietly , but not secretively , and I heard him going down the stairs . |
| 26 | ‘ I was thinking of going down the pub . ’ |
| 27 | I suppose he was going down the hill to Moorgate Road , there 's nowhere else to go from Albert Terrace . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The British diet has started to change , but a far greater rate of progress can be achieved if we now shift to a positive message about what to eat , rather than going down the old road of saying do n't eat certain foods . |
| 29 | He watched her going down the steps of the stand , nervous and intent as though on a holy mission . |
| 30 | Silly , was n't it , when all I was doing was going down the road to the Post Office ? |