Example sentences of "go down a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he goes down a treat at the annual summer conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 2 | This sort of feeble whining goes down a treat with women like Alison . |
| 3 | It goes down a treat at family do 's . ) |
| 4 | It loops it goes down a bit . |
| 5 | if I may give you a word of advice , you may think it 's rude , but when Mr is asking questions try not to turn down towards him , if you try and face across the jury , that 's what carries the voice if you 're looking at them , if you turn to your left , a bit of your head goes down a bit , it 's only natural , you 're not as used to courts as Mr is , er , he , he , your , it , your voice smothers , it 's not a question of shouting it 's just looking in the right direction , yes Mr go on |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This goes down a lot better . |
| 8 | There 's a path goes down a slope . |
| 9 | But then , it 's a big difference between skiing abroad and you know , like staying somewhere like Cyprus skiing in Scotland , it 's true , but I mean , it 's like the first , I mean , my dad 's typical , sort of , get to the top of the hill and give you a good shove , you know , give you one time to go down a bit slowly and then after that you just get to the top ski downhill phhhh . |
| 10 | If someone could wave a magic wand , and I could change something , I think I 'd like to go down a couple of cup sizes . |
| 11 | Some , through failing health or eyesight , were obliged to go down a couple of rungs on the ladder however , and there are an increasing number of cases in the 1940s of former compositors working as copy-holders for lower pay . |
| 12 | If I get home at 12.30 I probably wo n't want to go down a club , but I 'll pull a beer out of the fridge , sit down and have a laugh at everybody else making pillocks of themselves , including the prat who calls him self the Hitman . |
| 13 | I recently watched Dorothy Heathcote , halfway through a lesson on preparing for robbing a bank , release some junior school pupils into a free-play experience where they were to go down a manhole and then search the sewers under the bank . |
| 14 | Mike Wood normally flies Hawk jets but he 's happy to go down a step to share the piloting with Squadron Leader , Tim Farmer who 's happy to step up from his normal ground based job as a health and environment officer . |
| 15 | Severe wind turbulence caused my canopy to go down a lot faster than normal . |
| 16 | You 've just forced yourself into a cab , which is going down a London street at eight o'clock at night . ’ |
| 17 | Now I never if I was going through a train or going down a platform , and there were two or three carriage women carriage cleaners you know , I would n't speak to them about their work . |
| 18 | TOLLY beer from Suffolk is going down a storm among the wine drinkers of Italy.And ale from Tolly 's Cliff Brewery in Ipswich could soon be wetting the whistles of beer-lovers in Canada , Germany , Holland and France.Tolly bosses are celebrating after exporting 1,200 cases of their special Year Beer , Cantab , to Italy — and they have received inquiries from four other countries.Brian Cowie , Tolly 's joint managing director , said interest from abroad had initially come since the brewery 's name had been publicised on BBC television 's recent Troubleshooter programme . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly , the predominant trend trait is a taste for extrovert , over-the-top dressing , with glittery glam clothes going down a storm for evening , and hyper-smart executive-look suits being snapped up for daytime wear . |
| 20 | He said nothing more , and his silence played across her taut nerves like a fingernail going down a blackboard . |
| 21 | ‘ You take the kid 's word and you 're going down a tunnel , might be a wrong-way tunnel , ’ Nick said . |
| 22 | No , no C and B this time , we 're going down a bit , it 's in your left hand |
| 23 | GUINNESS is going down a treat in Sweden — at £5.50 a pint . |
| 24 | It seems to be going down a treat . |
| 25 | Meanwhile at the Swan in Southrop , Old Spot Pork is going down a treat . |
| 26 | On talking with her son Michael — ‘ Talking with Michael is like going down a water chute and finding yourself in the same swimming pool , very much at the deep end . ’ |
| 27 | Going down a slip-road . |
| 28 | Under these conditions it is possible to reproduce the sight of going down a helter-skelter , and the audience feels it is falling , when in fact there is no movement at all . |
| 29 | Six of William 's friends going down a slide |
| 30 | It 's like going down a tube . |