Example sentences of "gone down the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole of a small fortune might have gone down the drain , dribbled , you might say , through my inexperienced hands , but she never said a single word and the idea of failure never crossed my mind . |
| 2 | Yer know that our ole boxin' Club 's gone down the drain since those new geezers took over . |
| 3 | I felt that everything I 'd worked for had gone down the drain . |
| 4 | seem to have gone down the drain a bit . |
| 5 | I had just gone down the road when the bomb went off . |
| 6 | Notwithstanding the good news , many hundreds of the workers at Yarrow Shipbuilders have already gone down the road and it would be helpful if we could proceed quickly . |
| 7 | He knew he had gone down the road no cop should take , namely that of allowing the pursuit of a criminal to become a personal vendetta . |
| 8 | ‘ Here we are , 18 months on , and 400 people have gone down the road . ’ |
| 9 | There are fertilisers gone down the river and they kill them all off . |
| 10 | And then about erm from about an hour , about half an hour later after we 'd sat down we 're just laughing our heads off because the gi , they 'd gone down the pub and we said no , we 'll have a quiet night in . |
| 11 | And then he was gone down the stairs , running lightly , for all his limp , and the last which she saw of him was the sandy-blond head before he turned the corner of the first landing . |
| 12 | They waited until everyone else had gone down the steps . |