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

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1 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 .
2 The mortar men were not trained as Heavy Weapons Troops would be later in the war , but this did not prevent Sergeant Ramsey from getting off a bomb that appeared to go down the hotel chimney , reportedly causing a dozen or more casualties .
3 They had to go down the rope side-ladder , Richard first .
4 And if the faculty chose to go down the specialist qualification route , he added , it would go some way towards restoring credibility in the auditing profession by ensuring that standards are raised .
5 It 's probably a similar situation at er , the last company I worked for , used to have me , me lunch hour , I used to go down the swimming baths and do two and half hours there .
6 The end of the Worlds , you know how cold it was there , and we were all going down the finish tunnel you just , all of the blokes you just thought
7 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 .
8 Going down the cinder path to the screen in the dark , with our one feeble torch , was always horrendous because of the rats scuttling across the path .
9 So you 're going down the south coast , it 's lovely Guildford 's alright , where they , they 're fucking stuck up bitches !
10 She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot .
11 And one day we were coming along and these local ladies were coming towards us said oh we love going down the country roads and you know , oh look at all these poor refugees !
12 Away he goes again with those huge boots of his , steaming in now to , that 's pitched up , raps him on the pad , ball go , going down the leg side .
13 And do n't forget we 're going down the fracture clinic Alison !
14 And as as I say they had to put all the mens name in the hat and pick them out and put up a roster and they had their turn of going down the bread week by week .
15 Blows your excuse for going down the job centre .
16 We 're going down the north-west staircase and past the garderobe passage . ’
17 On finals , the approach speed was initially pegged at 65 knots and I was able to take hands and feet off to confirm that , like a true thoroughbred , the 207 , with just a trickle of power , will go down the glide slope as if born to it .
18 ‘ We 'll go down the back way , ’ Nanny told her , ‘ and out through the kitchen gardens . ’
19 Yeah well we was , we was gon na go down the west coast go and see Rome and then down from there .
20 Ruth went down the stone stairs that curved to the ground floor and followed the archways that led to an inner courtyard that might have been uncomfortably hot but was tempered by a cool fountain that arced water over a frolicking marble dolphin and child below .
21 Before I left the Lock and I was on nights the sirens went one night and this was before they stopped going down the shelter we went down the air raid shelter that is , now , is the cellar to the club at Bloxwich Lock 's club !
22 I ran off down the hill to our street and went down the back alley-way to Julie 's , so my mum would n't see me .
23 I tell ya , so I think we got out , we got our hair done and she wanted to go down to the mission so the hairdresser phoned a different taxi , we have this one up here , he took her down from there to the mission , cos he went down the back ways , you know ,
24 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 .
25 Then she went down the branch line to Port Penrhyn .
26 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 !
27 They went down the garden path shielded by his big black umbrella .
28 The Saxon peasant worked from dawn until dusk and as one went down the class ladder life was harder .
29 Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses
30 went down the slate mine .
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