Example sentences of "[noun] go [adv prt] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly , creakily , he talked , like a cart pulled by a wise old horse going along a rough road . |
| 2 | Our most controversial cover last year showed a photograph of a red car going around a Swiss hairpin , with the headline ‘ Ford 's new Escort meets its rivals ’ , and then , underlined in red , ‘ … and loses ’ . |
| 3 | A car going up a dead end at speed was ‘ going nowhere fast ’ ; a ‘ cock and bull story ’ was more often , in his opinion , a ‘ hen and cow story ’ . |
| 4 | Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way . |
| 5 | Because of the Government 's apparent lack of enthusiasm for all things European , and their determination to go along a slow track , will not Scotland lose out again without any chance of the central bank being cited in Glasgow or Edinburgh ? |
| 6 | So if you put a big heavy engine going down a cast iron railway which wo n't |
| 7 | Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ? |
| 8 | It must be able to run full-tilt down any of its tracks , anticipating every hazard on the surface that might trip it up and leaning into familiar bends like an experienced racing driver going round a well-practised circuit . |
| 9 | I set about building up an act with the aid of Rag magazines , joke-books , a gag nicked from here , a gag nicked from there and at my next engagement , four days later , I was billed as a comic and my fee went up a few quid . |
| 10 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 12 | Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way . |
| 13 | He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street . |
| 14 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 15 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 16 | When describing the apparent relationship , instead of making the somewhat vague generalization ‘ the higher the X , the higher the Y ’ , the linear summary permits a more precise generalization ‘ every time X goes up a certain amount , Y seems to go up a specified multiple of that amount ’ . |
| 17 | Liz , like a pale convent girl too long mewed up , went wild in her first year , as she discovered the world of parties she had hitherto known only by reading and by hearsay : in those days , such was the imbalance between the sexes , women were much in demand as status symbols , as sleeping partners , as lovers , as party ballast , and Liz went out a great deal , her appearance improving dramatically as she did so . |
| 18 | The old woman went along a short passage , passed a scullery and continued on a few yards . |
| 19 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |
| 20 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
| 21 | This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy . |
| 22 | The roots of his disciplinarianism go back a long way . |
| 23 | The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way . |
| 24 | Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet . |
| 25 | US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses . |
| 26 | The need to catch whales goes back a thousand years or more in Japanese history . |
| 27 | The arch-rivals go back a long way . |
| 28 | ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’ |
| 29 | The final stage goes up a smooth incline that appears to have been man-made , possibly to ease the passage of materials for the erections on the top . |
| 30 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |