Example sentences of "going down the road " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … ‘ ’ |
| 2 | The old milkman going down the road reading the paper is n't he ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Silly , was n't it , when all I was doing was going down the road to the Post Office ? |
| 5 | I said that I feared going down the road of different regional governments having different tax rates . |
| 6 | Then I heard the front door close and the sound of his car going down the road . |
| 7 | N H S , Local Authorities , multi-nationals , are all going down the road local bargaining . |
| 8 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |
| 9 | Those who live with it day and night are now going down the road to compensation , and a legal battle with the Department of Transport . |
| 10 | There 's a funeral procession going down the road with hundreds of people following the hearse . |
| 11 | There 's a funeral procession going down the road with hundreds of people following the hearse . |
| 12 | The shadow home secretary , Tony Blair , claimed the plans were going down the road of centralised policing when the reverse was needed . |
| 13 | The shadow home secretary , Tony Blair , claimed the plans were going down the road of centralised policing when the reverse was needed . |
| 14 | You 're going down the road |
| 15 | I hope to God nobody 's acce a you know , going down the road and |
| 16 | well it 's not worth going down the road to come back up to that pub |
| 17 | The Renault five turbo going down the road and had a crash and it split in two did n't it ? |