Example sentences of "[pron] go [adv] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The colonists had enough newspapers to take any visiting Englishman aback , and were developing industries fast enough to disturb the balance of the integrated commercial system : in 1699 Americans were forbidden to spin woollens for export , even to another colony ; in 1732 a similar limitation was placed on the manufacture of hats and caps ; and in 1750 the Iron Act allowed them to smelt iron ore into pig iron but forbade them to go any further in processing it , though in the event the American colonies were producing more iron and steel than Britain by 1775 . |
| 2 | I go out just for recording all this bollocks yeah for absolutely no reason at all . |
| 3 | York finally produced a win for the first time since the second half of November but only by 1110 against a side who went desperately close to clinching a late victory themselves . |
| 4 | Marist replied with a try and two penalties by Ian Vernon , who went desperately close to clinching victory in the last minute of the game when a penalty hit an upright . |
| 5 | York finally produced a win for the first time since the second half of November but only by 1110 against a side who went desperately close to clinching a late victory themselves . |
| 6 | Marist replied with a try and two penalties by Ian Vernon , who went desperately close to clinching victory in the last minute of the game when a penalty hit an upright . |
| 7 | Ames , who went so close to winning in Madeira last month , then birdied the seventeenth as well to join Gilford on nine under par on the last tee with Spence one stroke behind . |
| 8 | You go out there with trembling knees , and they are already noticing those trembling knees . |
| 9 | Kellmer Pringle believes that we go too far in asserting that the way parents bring up their children is solely their own concern . |
| 10 | In his Dictionary ( 1697 ) , Bayle points out that although the ‘ new philosophers ’ do not set out to be sceptics , they go even further in extending sceptical arguments to the conclusion that smells , colours , and tastes , ‘ are perceptions of our soul and that they do not exist at all in the objects of our senses ’ . |
| 11 | and then it starts off , and then it goes on again without winding it back on . |
| 12 | Miliband 's response to Poulantzas was that he goes too far in dismissing the composition of the state elite as of no account , and in suggesting that structural constraints are so compelling ‘ as to turn those who run the state into the merest functionaries and executants of policies imposed upon them by ‘ the system ’ ( Miliband 1983 , p. 32 ) . |
| 13 | That done he lets her go , and with his head over his shoulder turned , he goes out backwards without taking his yes off her … she runs off in the opposite direction . |
| 14 | If you feel this way do not let it go very long without confessing it . |
| 15 | Although Godfrey J. correctly concluded that the operation of the taxpayer which generated the taxable profits was one carried on in Hong Kong he went too far in saying that a taxpayer must establish the existence of a profit-generating operation outside Hong Kong if he is to escape a charge to tax under section 14 . |