Example sentences of "go [adv] down the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European community on the other hand also saw a growth of output of over twenty percent , twenty three point seven percent but that gave rise not to eighteen million but to only six million additional jobs and I just say to the honourable gentleman the lesson for Europe is to go further down the route that I have suggested of further deregulation and less bureaucracy and a stable economic framework , than to go down the route that he is advocating in his short address and question to me . |
| 2 | Predictions of how the duo will fare in America still vary , but one argument goes straight down the hole tonight . |
| 3 | Experience , however , showed that employers have many priorities — such as making a profit , obtaining orders , producing orders at the right price — and that something which they are not compelled to do , particularly in circumstances where the economic climate is adverse , goes well down the list of priorities . |
| 4 | I decided the only thing to do was throw her in at the deep end and go right down the village high street , where the roads were busiest and noisiest with holiday-makers , and simply stand there trying to calm her down . |
| 5 | The father and daughter went slowly down the dark , narrow stairs to the kitchen . |
| 6 | I went swiftly down the hall to the front door , and eased its bolts open . |
| 7 | If they did not reach the very poorest , they went further down the scale than most model buildings , and provided the sort of accommodation the poor were used to , despite the introduction of a guardian and a gate to keep the transients at bay and the tenants up to scratch . |
| 8 | We went further down the slope to practise parachute landing falls and ground handling skills — everything you need to know before actually launching yourself off the side of a hill . |
| 9 | The order of the day 's observances being immutable , whoever fell ill and whoever defaulted , the bell for Matins sounded in the dortoir as it did every midnight , and the brothers arose and went sleepily down the night stairs into the church . |
| 10 | We have been here since 1986 and during that time the town has gone completely down the pan . ’ |
| 11 | With a sigh Theodora switched on her flashlight again , went softly down the room and played the beam cautiously round the sleeping figure . |
| 12 | He went lightly down the hatchway and was gone , reappearing in a moment holding a shackling chain on either end of which was a clumsy iron ring , hinged and padlocked . |