Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] go [adv prt] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press had been hostile at the beginning of the 1974 general strike , but swung over to a more balanced view once the electric power went off and the country came to a halt . |
| 2 | Well in War and Peace it 's a story of the er I mean there are many themes go on but the broad sweep of history is about the Napoleonic invasion of Russia and the way the Russians defended themselves against the French armies . |
| 3 | The factory-gate braziers went out and the militants retreated . |
| 4 | two , two shirts for wearing on the slopes , one pair , one pair for wearing in the evening , I 've got one shirt to go in and the one I 'm wearing as I , as I go out |
| 5 | In Bangladesh , for instance , the birth rate in one village went up after the pill was introduced : because it both interfered with lactation ( 90 per cent of the users were lactating mothers — and lactation is known to help prevent ovulation ) , and was abandoned by 80 per cent of the women because of side effects . |
| 6 | As the pattern of industrial life goes on and the health of the nation enables people to live longer , the number of retired people will increase and new , attractive facilities will have to be made for them in Britain , or they will be lured away to live on the continent of Europe and spend their money there . |
| 7 | He let five buses go by and the girls kept at him , sure that they knew what he wanted . |
| 8 | Before they were finished , the first charges went off and the place became a hornets ' nest . |
| 9 | It had explosive charges laid ready to blow it up , and two small ones went off as the American troops started to cross . |