Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] go [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who boards a certain ferry or walks down a certain street or enters a certain building or goes through a certain door disappears for ever into that other city . ’ |
| 2 | Corbett nodded , rose and moved away ; he emptied his bladder and went to a nearby stream to bathe his hands and face in the cold clear water . |
| 3 | Anyone who thinks owning a diesel spells the end of driving fun , should park their backside in the AX 's comfortable , supportive driver 's seat and go for a quick ride . |
| 4 | Naturally , such matters were kept from a little girl ; there was only the squalling of the new baby upstairs , the coming and going of a starched nurse , the funeral — the black ostrich feathers on the horses ’ heads intrigued Dinah , who felt no grief at all for the occasionally met-with , plaintive lady who had , as they put it , passed away — and the sound of one 's own voice , strong and resonant in the empty room . |
| 5 | This over-the-head version weighed only 14 oz and went into a neat little stuff sack . |
| 6 | If the possibility appeals , make sure you take advice first from an accountant on the tax implications and go through a reputable property agent to handle the short-term rental contract . |
| 7 | I dined four times at various places and went to a drunk party at Worcester in someone 's rooms I did not know . |
| 8 | Erm , it was not possible to get your views in , as it were , personnel terms rather than financial terms on that er report , but er as it were on your behalf , we supported the Treasurer 's er recommendation for reasons set out in paragraph one four , and if I can er explain that for you a little little more , de-regulation could mean , that each employing authority has it 's own scheme of superannuation , or not , and if not would simply leave employees in a position of taking them off the state scheme S E R P S or going for a personal pension . |
| 9 | If I assemble a rolling chassis with a V8 , air conditioning , coil springs , full time four wheel drive and other things that go with a 110 , can the 109 body be laid on that chassis . |
| 10 | DEC perhaps captured the expectation best : ‘ Do you think he could buy himself a plane ticket and go on a personal tour of all of us — IBM , Hewlett-Packard , Sun Microsystems Inc , DEC — and bring us together in kind of an Open Software Foundation II with all of the chief executives on the same dais saying the past is behind us ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Scared ? ’ he asked casually on one occasion when going down a steep hill that had a sheer drop on one side . |
| 12 | It is a better strategy to create resources for industrialization to go for a rich peasant economy than to go for a middle peasant economy . |
| 13 | Brokers joining are charged an initial three month licence fee of £150 for each location , £60 a month that goes into a secure advertising fund , and 7p for each telephone enquiry . |
| 14 | Know the tricks of the trade and go from a bare-face start to a beautiful finish . |
| 15 | On Wednesday last I had an interview with the Archbishop and he asked me to leave Kidlington and go to a vacant parish in Birmingham ( Rednal ) where a friend of mine had died recently . |
| 16 | ‘ A guy can suffer an injury on the first match of a tour or go through a tough schedule without as much as a bump . |
| 17 | Would not it be far better to seek an effective non-proliferation treaty than to go for a new generation of nuclear weapons ? |
| 18 | It was impersonal , furnished to the exact specifications of any government building in the islands that goes with a civil servant of a particular grade ; the chairs and table in ‘ ant-proof ’ hardwood , lacquered a pale brown , three armchairs , one sofa , chairs and table on the verandah , a desk , two bedrooms , a couple of beds , their legs in jars of water , a shower . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I saved two hundred dollars and when summer came , I left the theatre and went to a little village by the sea on Long Island . |
| 20 | Through the gate and over the lumpy ground , and she opened the door and went into a long drill hall with a clacking wooden floor . |
| 21 | I put on my coat and went for a long walk on the moor . |
| 22 | The Polish Under-21 international collected the ball on the half-way line and went on a 50-yard run , jinking past Nigel Pearson and Viv Anderson before waltzing round keeper Chris Woods . |
| 23 | One feels that Nyerere was specifically addressing educated people like himself , who had come from different backgrounds , absorbed European culture and manners , discovered a common nationalist cause and gone through a political campaign successfully together , yet still knew relatively little about one another 's cultural traditions . |
| 24 | Chub do have their days when the old grey matter works overtime and you will have to put on your own thinking cap and go through a whole array of angling techniques , usual and offbeat ones , before you hit on the right one to catch him . |
| 25 | I went to see Dorothy and went to a lovely . |