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

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1 A BR spokeswoman said : ‘ The gang went down the train smashing windows and light bulbs and scaring the passengers .
2 Today it was closed but the delightfully cold ice-cream from the small shop at the entrance went down a treat .
3 With luck ‘ Mummy ’ might disbelieve the dire tale , especially if the bruise went down a little before she saw it .
4 It will typically take several hours for the car to go down the line , hundreds of workers will be directly involved in fitting the various bits and pieces , and each will have a cycle time of perhaps 60 seconds to do their allotted task .
5 While the deal goes down the rest of them wait next door .
6 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 .
7 We keep our trainees hard at it and even when the sun goes down the programme continues .
8 Hopefully much will be computerised like the FAA 's at present , where the form and the ECG go down the phone line to America .
9 The crawl went down the Strand , past St James 's , Belgravia and Mayfair , calling at the embassies of Australia , Canada , India , Bolivia , Peru , Columbia , Ecuador , Mexico , Myanmar , the USA and Brazil .
10 Half five in a morning , with the rain going down the back of your bleeding neck , the police set upon you by the owner and the manager , eh , that 'd liven 'em up .
11 So for the the water to go down the current to flow through .
12 The ball went down the Leeds left wing and was turned onto Deanes outstretching head .
13 ‘ It is an elevated green , so I did n't actually see the ball go down the hole , ’ he told BPXpress .
14 ‘ Barmen all over the world acquired a fair percentage of my money , ’ Jimmy regrets ‘ And the rest went down the plughole with various business ventures . ’
15 But if er John came last week and to all of us we were of a like mind that yes , he fitted the calling here everything else I , I see then that the manse would be the issue but basically now we 're talking in many ways other issues are affecting the call here than the manse so therefore the manse goes down the , the pecking order .
16 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 .
17 These Chelsea-supporting , three-minute Johnnies have been taking the piss out of ordinary folk for too long , indulging their libidos at our nation 's expense , laughing while communities crumble , hospitals are shut and the economy goes down the pan . ’
18 After questioning 600 non-information technology directors and 1,200 information technology ones , Graham Browne of market research group International Data Corp , concluded that , unless the Government goes down the facilities management path — which he believes is questionable — the UK market is unlikely to experience the 30% per annum growth rate generally forecast .
19 You mentioned that there 's a great degree of toughness since 1979 on Treasury targets and public expenditure , and the word goes down the line and there 's no argument .
20 ‘ One of these stations is located about every 70 kms to boost pressure as the oil goes down the pipeline , en route to the export terminals on the Black Sea and the Baltic — a distance of at least 2,000 kilometres from Western Siberia . ’
21 Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet .
22 That was by that was by normal recruits but it still happens it , actually the the bullying goes down the line .
23 If we 're talking about using this sy er type of system for running mission critical systems where if the database goes down the business stops running and starts losing money , then we need to be able to run twenty four hours a day seven days a week .
24 Despite subtitles which obviously struggle to get the profane poetry of Tarantino 's script , the film goes down a storm with the festival audience , though the torture does send some people scurrying for the door , among them one Wes Craven , director of the first Elm Street movie and much else .
25 The loco went down the embankment taking some of the tanks with it , and the wreckage together with trees standing in the field were enveloped in flames which took several hours to extinguish .
26 Anyone with chest pains should also go to the doctor , especially if the pain goes down the arm .
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