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

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1 Well , I 'd started going down the nick .
2 She told me , too , of the mines , and how some of the young boys were terrified of going down the pit for the first time , but had to go , as there was no other work for them ; and how at first they had been put to work beside their father , loading the coal he cut , until they had overcome their fear .
3 You 're na you 're not going down the pit ?
4 I said No , no-one at home was , Everyone at home had said , You 're not going down the pit .
5 always spread a and I I was listening to or or during a programme and it said er , we 're always told how firms are going down the shoot !
6 The end of the Worlds , you know how cold it was there , and we were all going down the finish tunnel you just , all of the blokes you just thought
7 Before I left the Lock and I was on nights the sirens went one night and this was before they stopped going down the shelter we went down the air raid shelter that is , now , is the cellar to the club at Bloxwich Lock 's club !
8 Then he turned back , going down the twist of steps , letting Wu Shih 's Chancellor lead him , head bowed , back down Wall Street to the dragon steps and his waiting craft .
9 Lambert realized that far below the barrage was still pounding away ; that the observers reports were still going down the telephone wire , correcting ranges and bearings , selecting new targets from the shop window of the British Front .
10 Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ .
11 Alex I 'll be going down the field at lunch .
12 The staff voted the evening a great success and are already thinking of ‘ going down the alley ’ again .
13 Breaking the top of the bend will leave a jagged projection to gently chisel out , after plugging the soil pipe with paper or rag , to prevent particles going down the pipe and possibly blocking the drain .
14 After making the running for the first circuit , he let Royal Cedar take a breather going down the back for the last time , with Seagram and Durham Edition leading him down the hill .
15 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 .
16 I was getting ratty and the rain was going down the back of my neck .
17 The US factories had evolved into organisations that set out tightly circumscribed jobs , fixed procedures , absolutely nothing in terms of flexible working , multi-skilling , employee responsiveness — any of those sorts of things — and they took a look at Japanese cost patterns and thought that American industry was just going down the plug . ’
18 Going down the cinder path to the screen in the dark , with our one feeble torch , was always horrendous because of the rats scuttling across the path .
19 So you 're going down the south coast , it 's lovely Guildford 's alright , where they , they 're fucking stuck up bitches !
20 She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot .
21 Going down the grubber ?
22 Say 12345 , first making your voice go up the scale ( you are not singing , just using your speaking voice ) , then going down the scale .
23 And one day we were coming along and these local ladies were coming towards us said oh we love going down the country roads and you know , oh look at all these poor refugees !
24 Away he goes again with those huge boots of his , steaming in now to , that 's pitched up , raps him on the pad , ball go , going down the leg side .
25 And do n't forget we 're going down the fracture clinic Alison !
26 You 'll having going down the bottom of the road here in a minute .
27 We heard a bang and heard the fire engines going down the runway .
28 I was in the supermarket the other day and then this bloke , I saw this bloke pick up this massive bottle of er vinegar right , and he took the top off there was some old woman just going down the aisle and he just started pouring it all over her
29 ‘ Like a band of gipsies going down the highway , ’ sing these menopausal Monkees , ‘ we 're the best of friends . ’
30 And as as I say they had to put all the mens name in the hat and pick them out and put up a roster and they had their turn of going down the bread week by week .
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