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

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1 It is the official authority ‘ traditionally ’ associated with management , which goes down the scalar chain .
2 So Summerchild locks up his office and goes down the narrow staircase .
3 thank you , now we 're going to bind this up , you take the long edge , sorry that goes down the long edge comes first of all over the two fingers and round the base of the thumb
4 But do n't be fooled by the island 's exotic name or location just off Africa — once the sun goes down the whole place comes alive .
5 So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all .
6 Right now so the tap is to control the speed at which the acid goes in and if there is any gas that 's in there it ca n't escape out of that pipe again it 's got to go down the other pipe .
7 If we were minded to go down the new settlement line ?
8 ACT decided to go down the object-oriented route for several reasons .
9 No , you know you know as you 're going down the corridor before you get to the doors to go down the next set of stairs , I mean in O S D , the last one is er for the P C that does all the man er you know all the duties and things like that , and in his office there 's a great big board with all the vehicles on , and the key 's hung up at the end and who 's got 'em out , and the bottom one is that green van , because he went up and picked 'em up , when I was there .
10 Going down the second fairway he told me he 'd lost his yardage book and asked me what I thought his second shot was .
11 He fell twice , going down the second time across a litter of boxes , and losing the gun .
12 More designers are going down the locking tuner route and it 's something which I personally welcome ; it does away with that lumpiness at the nut end of the fingerboard and offers up a more traditional look into the bargain .
13 Growing companies are among those most at risk , she claims , when going down the old-fashioned selection route .
14 Also going down the lighter weight waterproof path are Mountain Equipment with their new Alpine Suit in Gore-Tex and 2-ply Taslan .
15 Because once the ship come up that 's still a certain amount of water in the hold which that must be , cos then once you heave your door up then of course you load your ship again and then cos your ship was going down the more mud you put in , course mud is heavier than water
16 They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past .
17 track , because it it , no other transport business er has er does has to have a business , which op owns both the track it 's operating on and the operating er facilities themselves , so the we 're not doing anything new here , what we are actually doing , and incidentally the German government and other governments are going down the same route now because it 's not true to say that others are n't privatizing , what we 're doing is saying that we are having a separate track authority , and there are a variety of reasons for that , er but the an and that means actually less investment by the franchisee himself , but he will have control over the th the track operations , because he will have a contract , with Rail Track , to deliver certain services , and if Rail Track does n't deliver them then he 's able to claim penalties so
18 Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’
19 Mother Francis stood at a window and watched little Eve go down the long avenue of the convent out to Sunday lunch on her own with the Hogans .
20 We can go down the bottom end this way
21 He went the long way home , but did not go down the little gang plank to the barge of a friend of his — a woman who kept ten or so cats on board and brewed some awful drink out of peaches .
22 For the worry that they themselves might go down the same road meant that they could see that teachers who were now ‘ like that ’ had once been enthusiastic , committed students like themselves .
23 Why can we not go down the same road ?
24 When Razor went down the first time I was shouting and jumping up and down , ’ she said .
25 The drive was tree-lined , so they went down the farther side , only visible now and then .
26 They went down the dark tunnel .
27 There was a lot of undergrowth to be cleared so Stephen and I went down the following Saturday ( 17/10/92 ) to cut down and burn the weeds .
28 ‘ It 's none of my business , ’ she replied , gripping the solid wood grab-rails as she went down the five steps with their non-slip treads .
29 He turned and went down the four steps that led into the long , dark , low-ceilinged dining room , returning a moment later with a book from the shelves .
30 Every morning he went down the three flights of stairs the mail was there to be shuffled and dealt .
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