Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] go [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 2 | This man went out with a pouch and gathered up owl-pellets , which he labelled , and later , took apart with forceps , bathed in glass beakers of various cleansing fluids , ordering and rearranging the orts and fragments of the owl 's compressed package of bone , tooth and fur , in order to reconstitute the dead shrew or slow-worm which had run , died , and made its way through owl-gut . |
| 3 | Between 1979 and 1987 the number of inpatients treated in English hospitals went up by a quarter and day cases by almost 60 per cent . |
| 4 | This fellow went up to a chap ( you could not tell who were NCOs or who were officers ) who was just resting because it was very hard work and we were working under pressure , and said sharply : " What is the trouble with you , have you run out of sandbags ? " |
| 5 | It was Alexander , formerly of Barnet , who demanded the only save Steve Ogrizovic was required to make — a low shot from the edge of the area forcing the man-mountain goalkeeper to go down with a motion usually greeted with cries of ‘ timber ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ We received warnings that mentioned four specific streets and the second bomb went off in a street which was not named in those warnings , ’ he said . |
| 7 | That is to be increased and perhaps there should be an increase in the sentence for hardened criminals going out with a criminal purpose and carrying a knife . |
| 8 | The pair tied the knot in July , and the last-minute wedding went off to a tee … |
| 9 | Anyway these questions go down like a lead balloon . |
| 10 | All these things go on as a |
| 11 | Trouble from racists who objected to a white woman going out with a black man . |
| 12 | Clap your hands and insist that natural gas goes up in a puff of noxious air . |
| 13 | THREE arms go up in a golden salute as brothers Jonny and Greg Searle celebrate victory with Garry Herbert in the 2000m coxed pairs . |
| 14 | From Gearstones an undisputed path goes down to a footbridge over the stream , here known as Gayle Beck . |
| 15 | I have of course no intention of suggesting that this intellectual and , by implication , political revolution went on without a single hitch . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | The arrival of Islam and the Arabic language was to mark another of the great turning points in the history of Egypt , and their absorption by Egyptian society went on over a long period , being generally a peaceful and incremental process . |
| 18 | Setback number one arose the night before the game when their regular goalkeeper went down with a mystery illness . |
| 19 | There was an early nineteenth-century firescreen to go back to a house in Trinity Street . |
| 20 | In his strict , conventional way he had no wish for his pretty seventeen-year-old daughter to go out with a lance-corporal from the Pay Corps . |
| 21 | Approaching the tube station at Notting Hill Gate , I saw a number 88 bus go by with a bright yellow advertisement proclaiming ‘ Britain needs its universities ’ . |
| 22 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 23 | I wanner go up in a pile a smoke an' flames an' eye shadder an' levver shoes an' dancin' an' all that I 'll go like them girls in the magazines Sharon an' you ai n't goin' ter stop me . |
| 24 | And I believed that this world of darkness and changing images went on without a break , as unceasingly as the other less real one outside , wherever outside was , and by some unlikely philanthropic gesture of the city corporation was allowed to co-exist and be connected by the little dark doors with dark portholes . |
| 25 | Successful applicants go on to a three-day assessment course . |
| 26 | Yet she meant well and one night went out in a fog to look for me . |
| 27 | And tonight , her desperate impatience to go out at a particular hour … |
| 28 | Of course , the challenge is when people who are sensitised to their own attitudes go back into a work or social setting where people are not . |
| 29 | It was exciting but the last match on the Saturday with Clark and James and Strange and Stewart taking five hours and 15 minutes to go round in a fourball was a joke . |
| 30 | Actually there are quite a few infuriating people went out for a drink what are you having to drink and she said oh whatever you 're having |