Example sentences of "gone [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 Look at it now , it 's gone right the way back now , with all that land being reclaimed and warehousing and you name it and docks , new docks , so in the past ten years , what a massive development that has become .
2 Just got in , well it were n't , it had n't gone right the way through , we just turned it over and chu , chucked the sheets and blankets back on once they 'd stopped smouldering and got back on it !
3 The Central African Federation , embracing the Rhodesias and Nyasaland , had broken up under African nationalist pressures at the end of 1960 ; the West Indies Federation had gone much the same way during 1961 ; and South Africa had become a republic and left the Commonwealth that year .
4 A lot of water had certainly gone down the burn since 6th of June .
5 I learned to canoe years ago when three of us put borrowed boats in the water at Glasbury and pulled them out , finally , several days later at Tintern , having gone down the Wye .
6 Surely it is the fact all the other counties have gone down the same road that has persuaded Yorkshire that , in order to compete on equal terms , they must follow suit .
7 ‘ That 's a bit of history gone down the tubes , eh ?
8 In this chapter you have discovered many ways in which foods containing dietary fibre can make you feel more satisfied — and the food has not yet gone down the throat .
9 Water , water everywhere but not a drop to drink — because it 's all gone down the sink !
10 By 10.30 he had gone down the full length of the corridor that ran past his office and he had then spent two and a half hours in H3 's laboratory .
11 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 .
12 Even if the black hole did emit the right kinds of particles , one could not tell if they were actually the same particles that had gone down the other hole .
13 ‘ If they set out from Tara at the hour they intended , they will have gone down the forest road hours earlier . ’
14 Or bits that have gone down the wrong way ?
15 This is bloody hard work — if I 'd wanted a holiday like this I could have gone down the mines for a fortnight . ’
16 And , oh , Ellie , if you had n't been here , I 'd have gone down the aisle looking such a fright … ’
17 At several sites , protesting miners were reported to have gone down the pits and stayed there following the announcement .
18 So , let's assume that we 've gone down the line of saying that , for a maximum value , Z X times Z Y equals Z X squared .
19 She was blue when they carried her in , but it looks as though the stone has gone down the right way . ’
20 And she was on his knee , and their arms were round each other , and though the sun had gone down the garden at that moment was glorious , full of a blaze of splendour that surrounded them like a halo .
21 They may have gone down the medium wave dial from 10.17 to 8.55 , but their new premises in Ludlow is more than a few steps up from the barn .
22 Hughie said : ‘ You can say that shipbuilding in Whitby has gone down the sewer .
23 But much of the money spent in Berlin , Sydney , Istanbul , Bejing , and Milan , Manchester 's rivals , will have gone down the tubes .
24 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 !
25 Yes it was sort of my library book 's gone down the back of my cupboard mummy !
26 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 .
27 Nobody 's modelled themselves on us , they 've gone more the Roses and the Mondays .
28 We have gone slightly the other way with obviously robotics and the electronic age and this sort of thing .
29 Where things have gone wrong the two typical queries are : ‘ My fish are ill/dying/dead/refusing to eat ’ and ‘ My fish are killing each other ’ , and many of these I find very distressing , as they are usually the result of the hobbyist having failed to do his or her ‘ homework ’ before setting up their tank or buying a particular species .
30 ‘ Tracker 's gone up the line .
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