Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] to go [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 At the time of his death Campbell was unsuccessfully seeking backers for a jet-driven car to go through the sound barrier .
2 And among the leadership cadres of almost every industry there was a clear tendency to go beyond the Menshevik call for a degree of co-operation with the liberals , to the clearer cut , class-distinctive slogans of the Bolsheviks .
3 It 's also a personal ambition to go around the circuit .
4 it was their duty as a cooperative organisation to go to the aid of the N.U.R .
5 Now he had a sudden ambition to go to the ball .
6 Tools are expensive , but it is often a false economy to go for the cheapest .
7 Rodgers knows there is a long way to go before the big one in December , but he has the makings of a strong , hard pack and the chance of additional talent behind them providing injury does not intervene .
8 Which is where Wales would love to be now — though , not withstanding the obvious improvement , there is a long way to go before the benefit of a more productive line-out provided by Anthony Copsey and Gareth Llewellyn and more solid scrummage based on Mike Griffiths , Garin Jenkins and Laurance Delaney is complemented by corresponding forward mobility and the consequent winning of clean , quick loose ball .
9 But Scotland has a long way to go before the symbiosis of locals and visitors becomes a reality .
10 There is still a long mile to go to the ultimate top , and even the wall , so far dead straight , falters into a zigzag to relieve its boredom .
11 All you need is a well-fed body to go through the motions of life .
12 It is not a good idea to go over the natural lipline — it usually looks false .
13 Nicandra thought it might be a good idea to go to the lavatory , next door to the bathroom , rather an adventure as this lavatory was sacred to Dada .
14 I 've a good mind to go to the Bodega Bar with ye … they sell alcoholic beverages . ’
15 In the nineteenth century the chateau was altered further , with some ham fisted restoration and the addition by King Louis-Philippe and the Emperor Napoleon — the Third , not the First — of a sixth tower to go with the five earlier ones .
16 Yes , I think it 's totally clear that what we need is a short message , and it 's a white paper , and therefore it 's inviting a message , so what we really need is a short message to go with the A B C and the government act on the two S P's and I would give an undertaking at this point that it will go under the chief environmental health officers ' name .
17 Cliftonville had a wonderful opportunity to go into the lead just after the resumption when Tim McCann , lively and dangerous darted through , but as the keeper came out to narrow the angle , he whipped the ball past the far upright .
18 A second factor which I 'd like to raise , and please stop me , sir , if I 'm not playing your ground rules here , is to get back to the original point made by Mr Davis , as to how this figure is going to be split between the districts , I think it 's absolutely essential that this figure is split between the districts , and it may well be , if you decide , sir , to recommend in favour of the new settlement that you may have to leave that as a floating figure to go around the districts , at the moment it is not .
19 ‘ You feel , perhaps , that it would be a marvellous thing to go to the Counterweight Continent and bring back a shipload of gold ? ’
20 The attempt , however , must be applauded as a genuine effort to go beyond the sterile and largely one-dimensional business of finding mathematical relationships between sales and advertising .
21 Make a latticed frame to go over the fire and put the trout on it or otherwise hang them over the smoke , and if possible cover it all with branches of more leaves to keep the smoke inside .
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