Example sentences of "[conj] go [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy . |
| 2 | Erm you know , almost you have to go too far or to go such er an extent it would be erm and the force simply to erm stop counter-revolution and , and to overthrow all , you know , deep seated authorities that had lasted thousands of years , I mean to , to overcome that you do need a revolution . |
| 3 | ‘ Will you be staying around for a while , or going straight back to bonny Scotland ? ’ |
| 4 | One of the bigger problems was that Fergie believed I was taking the mickey out of him by either cheating or going soft and feigning injury . |
| 5 | They are constantly changing their numbers , or going ex-directory to stave off threatening calls . |
| 6 | Generally , much will depend on whether the client is buying up-market or going down-market and also whether the client is raising a mortgage . |
| 7 | Maybe it made the difference between having lunch or going hungry . |
| 8 | JUNIOR education minister William Shelton did not know whether he was coming or going last week when he gave an experimental communications system known as Project Universe its first public airing . |
| 9 | The going seems better for Philip Ames , a chirpy Lancastrian , who is also expanding a retail chain at a time when so many others are either shrinking or going bust . |
| 10 | Many of their customers are suffering losses or going bust , so they have bad debts . |
| 11 | I shivered and wondered if it was time for old Shallot to disappear or go ill with ague , but I remembered my promise . |
| 12 | You have to let go or go mad . |
| 13 | You could die or go bankrupt and the house would stay basically unchanged , still mouldering slowly and running up a ransom of a heating bill … unless you were so fabulously rich that you could afford not to give a shit , in which case all arguments foundered . |
| 14 | Penned in by the subliminal surrealism on the screens , knocked out of the way by the mobile cartoon tableaux that slice aggressively through the audience ( mini-stages dragged around at high speed ) , people do n't quite know where to look or go next . |
| 15 | With men you tell 'em to do their own or go smelly . |
| 16 | Possibly this shortfall was met by grain production on the Lasithi Plain , but if Lasithi was not tributary to Mallia , the city would have had to look overseas for grain , ‘ buy ’ it from neighbouring territories , or go hungry . |
| 17 | When competitors pull out , get taken over or go bust , fares go up . |
| 18 | It is pretty clear that while big business is being done in local area network hubs and routers , the market is very overcrowded , and in those circumstances , the outcome is usually that the rich get richer and the poor get taken over or go bust : observers reckon that in that context , the richest of the rich is Cisco Systems Inc , Menlo Park , which did $340m in the year to last July and is estimated to have at least 45% of the market and maybe as much as 50% ; Wellfleet Communications Inc is thought to be number two , with anything from 12% to 20% , with 3Com Corp third at around 10% , but in the hub sector alone , SynOptics Communications Inc is thought to have about 33% and Cabletron Systems Inc 15% , although the latter says the two are neck and neck . |
| 19 | Others will merge , be bought , or go bust . |
| 20 | Those small owner publishers who could not cope with the new financial pressures were forced to expand , to merge with other larger companies , or go bust . |
| 21 | We 're going to match up that cow and her little calf we got last week with a daddy — or go bust in the attempt . " |
| 22 | Police hope that by clearing porn shop shelves of the illegal material dealers will be forced to either sell legitimate publications or go bust . |
| 23 | ‘ If we do n't eat soon , ’ said Tim , ‘ this ineffably delicious dish will either burn to a crisp or go cold , depending on how I decide to proceed . |
| 24 | Whether I pay or go free , whatever the cost , I will not let it be said I killed a decent man to keep him from accusing me . |
| 25 | When times are bad it can be a very savage choice people have to make — either break the law or go broke . ’ |
| 26 | Use the traditional pink and white marshmallows or go wild with lots of assorted shapes and colours . |
| 27 | Even so , important posts in Dutch diplomacy had sometimes to be filled by second-rate men or go unfilled for long periods . |
| 28 | You with a mind full only of natural & unembarrassing thoughts , & of me , probably awoke early and remembered & rejoiced ; perhaps you had even prepared for it , & went happy walks , singing , garlanded . |
| 29 | Philip Larkin spent his last years as a university librarian at Hull , where he administered but did not teach ; John Wain resigned a lectureship at Reading to live in Oxford , where he spent five years as a professor of poetry ; Iris Murdoch , though willingly leaving an Oxford teaching post in her middle years , has lived there , or near it , married to a professor ; and David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury either retired early or went part-time . |
| 30 | Some of them got religious or went barmy I seem to remember , but the point is they were all different when they came back . |