Example sentences of "[adv] go [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Carry On goes in a seven-year cycle . |
| 2 | I was even planning which tank I would be moving my 43 babies ( I had carefully counted the eggs ) to when they had grown up enough to go into a larger tank . |
| 3 | Perhaps going for a moonlit swim before making love under the stars . |
| 4 | I think that er we are probably some years of and therefore whilst we make indulge our service in the next few moments it each other er we are eventually and then perhaps going through a convenient route er and thrashing out some sort of profit margin . |
| 5 | At 15 she had once to be carted from the links of Gullane having had too much to drink , but she will tell you that that had nothing to do with the pressures of competition , rather that she was merely going through a rebellious streak . |
| 6 | Obviously people who are merely going through a bad patch ( anxiety state ) are easier to assist in the process of change , because they have greater resources , than individuals who have always been anxious ( anxiety trait ) . |
| 7 | They 're obviously going into a difficult area and if it breaks out into open conflict , there will be slight risk , but at the moment it 's fairly routine for us . |
| 8 | The answer is probably yes , provided there were concessionary tax rates for the retired and proper facilities for their leisure and recreation ; for surely these people only go to a foreign land for these reasons ? |
| 9 | The finance director of one of the companies says he believes that the productivity increases attributable to IT are coming to an end : ‘ Auditors are getting more productive — but it can only go to a certain level . ’ |
| 10 | As a young actor you obviously went for a great deal of variety in characters and accents . |
| 11 | Even my wife , enlightened , but energetically gregarious , upon my expressing my desire not to go to a certain gathering would say , ‘ Normal people like parties , they want to go . ’ |
| 12 | He was subsequently ordered by a court not to go within a hundred yards of her . |
| 13 | Chelsea already goes to a black majority state school in Arkansas , but for Amy the change was sudden . |
| 14 | No , I am not going to a fancy dress party , but to work . |
| 15 | McLeish threw it away and methodically sorted his notes ; he was not going near a top firm of solicitors without a very careful list of questions , and his first port of call that morning was to be Huttons , who had been Angela Morgan 's solicitors . |
| 16 | But customers , too , have only recently begun to see the big picture : IBM is not just going through a bad patch , it is in serious , perhaps critical , trouble . |
| 17 | Me and my mate , here , we 're just going for a little ride . ’ |
| 18 | With wildly beating heart , before opening the shed door I rehearse the lie I am about to tell him — just like in drama — including the correct tone of voice : ‘ Just going for a quick bike ride , Pa . |
| 19 | Why do you not go to a provincial university meantime , and perhaps win a scholarship to Oxford from there ? |
| 20 | You can not go to a Franciscan centre without coming face to face with Francis ' emphasis on the cross . |
| 21 | In this case , Lord Denning distinguished Bartlett v Sidney Marcus ( 1965 ) by explaining that if a car does not go for a reasonable time and the engine breaks up , this is evidence to show that the car was not fit for its purpose when sold . |
| 22 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 23 | Another , compiled in June , stated that no one believed any longer in an early end to the war in Russia , and that soldiers on leave had said they would not go through a second winter there . |
| 24 | You did not go through a religious ceremony with him . ’ |
| 25 | I did not go into a perfect situation . |
| 26 | Weak clients , i.e. those lacking confidence , may not perform well at the first meeting but normally go through a sharp learning curve . |
| 27 | So I I 'm extremely pleased that the County Council have not gone for a strategic exceptions policy . |
| 28 | Erm , under the inflation-proof plans , erm , just go for a straight A , B , C , D here folks . |
| 29 | He had no strong views on fox hunting , he just went for a cheap day out . |
| 30 | If it just went in a straight line it would take fifteen minutes . |