Example sentences of "[noun] go [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd arranged with the local flying club to go up in a small ‘ Cub ’ training aircraft , which is well-suited for aerial photography as it has a very slow cruising speed . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw Liza Carrow , ’ Eleanor went on in a matter-of-fact way . |
| 4 | This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . |
| 5 | But while the search went on for a suitable donor , Evelyn and Peter Walker kept a constant vigil by their ten-year-old daughter 's hospital bedside . |
| 6 | Oh , I can read the signs as well as anyone , ’ Dora went on in a sudden surge of indignation as Melissa 's eyebrows lifted . |
| 7 | She 'd expected a steady upward climb , but suddenly the tunnel dipped and steps went down beside a white race of water . |
| 8 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
| 9 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 10 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 11 | The bow went off with a terrible noise , like bones breaking . |
| 12 | Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level . |
| 13 | In all cases consent goes up to a certain point only . |
| 14 | Recriminations over the sound and an equivocal audience response ( some pogoed , most stared blankly on as a repeat offender dove on to dance to ‘ Motown Junk ’ ) sees the set and with the bass ricocheting off the backdrop , the drum kit going down to a repeated kicking and singer James making messy love to his gorgeous white Gibson . |
| 15 | ‘ All boats go up on a rising tide , ’ observes Frank Delaney philosophically at the end of one of those come-on-Fred-we-give-you-all-this-advertising-how-about-an-in-depth-profile pieces , in this case on Harper-Collins , that PN does so well . |
| 16 | Successful applicants go on to a three-day assessment course . |
| 17 | His father , however , preferred that Farrar went in for a professional career , and Farrar was articled to a firm of architects and surveyors in Northampton , becoming a Fellow of the Geographical Society . |
| 18 | Swindon 's right-back Hockaday went off with a fractured cheekbone just before half-time . |
| 19 | Hotel duty manager George Ashou , who was only 10ft from the blast , said : ‘ The bomb went off with a muffled crump . |
| 20 | Morrell went on for a comfortable victory over three seconds clear of the defending champion , Mark Kirk , of Ballymena . |
| 21 | Rights and properties going back to a remote and undocumented past appeared to him to have a sanction which no later enactment — not even by the pope — could alter . |
| 22 | And er a gent used to have er a gentleman going round with a great long stick . |
| 23 | I have of course no intention of suggesting that this intellectual and , by implication , political revolution went on without a single hitch . |
| 24 | In many respects , however , life in a special school is like any other day or boarding school , and it would be wrong to assume that rare and special things go on in a special school . |
| 25 | Ammunition , grenades , and demolition explosives went off in a deadly firework display . |
| 26 | Adam stared round , and his head went up like a frightened horse 's . |
| 27 | When the Titanic was finally located on the sea-bed a crew went down in a tiny submarine to explore the wreckage . |
| 28 | And tonight , her desperate impatience to go out at a particular hour … |
| 29 | Pop concert goes out on a bad note |
| 30 | Nevil Sanderson going out with a female Tory , ye Gods and little fishes ! ’ |