Example sentences of "[vb -s] gone [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm quite happy to see if we can what we can do , I ca n't guarantee that my Right Honourable Friend will take a different view , but I 'm content to see what we can do and report if your Lordships think that that is suitable , but if we were to do that My Lord , I think it would mean erm er it would mean that all these amendments which are grouped together should not in fact be , be put t to the vote , I mean that means ever er er all your Lordships because I do n't think it would be very fair if I were to say that I would move mine and the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh were c to come along and move his amendment and mine meanwhile has gone down the drainpipe and I do n't think that that would be particularly funny , but the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh I 'm sure would n't do such a dastardly thing like that ! |
| 2 | Hughie said : ‘ You can say that shipbuilding in Whitby has gone down the sewer . |
| 3 | Los Angeles , California-based Tiger Media , the multimedia authoring start-up , has gone down the tubes : its venture capitalists sold off the assets last month to New Hampshire-based AimTech Inc , a PC company . |
| 4 | ‘ Tracker 's gone up the line . |
| 5 | Well we was coming down , now the cooker 's gone up the Swannee ! |
| 6 | Yes it was sort of my library book 's gone down the back of my cupboard mummy ! |
| 7 | So I think the people who say , ‘ Oh , he 's gone down the Swanee , he 's talking pop , or he 's writing children 's books , or he 's waving his hands on television , ’ balderdash as far as they 're concerned , I think they 're , they 're just being very stupid . |