Example sentences of "[noun] go [prep] [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sedimentation goes on all the time , for ever moving from place to place , for ever cannibalising itself . |
| 2 | Our sincere thanks go to all the patients who have volunteered to share their experiences and allowed us to divulge intimate details about them , in the hope of helping others . |
| 3 | I am extremely proud and my thanks and appreciation go to all the staff . ’ |
| 4 | If we do nothing the badger is doomed to suffer , and terrible suffering goes on all the time . |
| 5 | ‘ There are double and triple checks going on all the time . ’ |
| 6 | Can I say that as part of the budget discussions , this year and last year , the labour group went over all the services that the City Council provides with a fine tooth comb and argued out the case for all the spending that we then put forward in our budget . |
| 7 | Experimentation and development go on all the time as the company searches for new ways to capture and build on the knowledge already accumulated by its workers . |
| 8 | I intend o go through all the files in due course , I mean it 's |
| 9 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 10 | When you 've got an engine , erm , you Let's say we 've got an engine with a fixed amount of petrol going in all the time . |
| 11 | Assessing his impact on the reading public , Graham Greene wrote that he had ‘ some of the qualities of Dr Johnson — a plainness , an honesty , a sense of ordinary life going on all the time ’ . |
| 12 | I think when the army went in that the army because there was no political direction from Westminster , we 've seen the seats in the House of Commons , I mean nobody 's there when Sir Patrick 's talking about Northern Ireland , which I think is absolutely disgraceful , when they 're talking about their salaries they 're there . |
| 13 | ‘ Why on earth do you think Syl went to all the trouble of making her a separate kitchen ? ’ |
| 14 | Er I do n't think one would ever have the stomach to go through all the detail . |
| 15 | Political campaigning goes on all the time of course , not just in the run-up to a major election . |
| 16 | Your chances gone with half the loaf , while my new cabin boy is revived and the heartier for it . ’ |
| 17 | On both the family and the part-time farm it was difficult often for the husband to set aside time to go to all the training courses he would like to attend . |
| 18 | These recommendations go on all the time , but they are recommendations and that is all . |