Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] go [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We expect them to go home now and say , ‘ Mamma gim me lamb ’ . ’
2 It was far enough away to be no real danger , but it certainly stopped me going any further and was probably a timely warning !
3 Why , oh , why had he let her go so easily and why , oh , why was he doing this to her now ?
4 He let her go so suddenly that she almost fell .
5 He kissed her with suppressed violence , then let her go so abruptly that she almost lost balance .
6 But even so , you would n't have thought it went as fast as that in a creature that moves so slowly , would you , Miss Honey ? ’
7 So he could n't keep it going any longer and he had to give it up , so he 's on the dole again .
8 ‘ I know , I know , it 's early days , as you said — but you 're just not the type to let him go this far if you had any serious doubts . ’
9 ‘ Dammit to hell , ’ he cursed , letting her go abruptly so that she fell back on the bed in an untidy heap .
10 And Beuno said nothing , but he looked at him as mildly as he looks at the trout that he catches in the stream , and the doctor said , ‘ Until tomorrow ’ , and he left , and Beuno watched him go as mildly as he watches the sheep when he frees them from where they are caught in the hedge .
11 He said it had petered out because Eliot did not want him to go any further and did not have a plan to use the information already gathered .
12 Local planners admitted they went too far when they insisted he take down his flag pole because it was n't straight enough .
13 Isabel , watching closely , saw him go very still as he saw what lay between the pages .
14 It was about then that I noticed I could not touch the bottom and I felt myself going faster downstream than I was going across .
15 Well , it seemed as if as soon as my back was turned Mrs Carrow went off down there , even though you could n't normally get her to go no further than the garden gate , like I said . ’
16 Would she let him go again now that the kitty was empty ?
17 Let him go … try and let him go as easily as you let me go . ’
18 In the meantime , as she so sweetly says , through her tears , to those who have over many years tried to gently persuade her to go straight away and live the rest of her life in comfort .
19 Even if people in this state are able to get themselves going as far as applying for jobs and are offered interviews , they fail to get them because the image they put across is one of a lackadaisical , flattened dullard — and who would want to employ someone who 's in that state ?
20 Never before had he gone so far and labelled himself an alcoholic .
21 Suddenly she wanted him gone so urgently that it was all she could do not to order him to get out .
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