Example sentences of "[verb] go [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever he tried to go home the old woman would throw a magic ball of thread into his boat and draw him back to shore . |
| 2 | A sporting fairy tale … but hold on … will Nigel and the Williams team from Oxfordshire live happily ever after … believe it or not before the bubbly has gone flat the sporting world is alive with speculation about the future of Mansell … |
| 3 | Almost all the ladies silently decided to go downtown the next morning and buy a copy of The Cheaper Sex . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We have gone slightly the other way with obviously robotics and the electronic age and this sort of thing . |
| 6 | If the previous stages have gone well the actual task of writing may now be relatively painless . |