Example sentences of "[adv] go [adv prt] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
2 | Only goes up to a certain height . |
3 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
4 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |
5 | This need for the father probably goes back to an earlier stage of childhood than the phallic-Oedipal one to which we have so far confined our attention . |
6 | I do not mean being reactionary , simply going back to a past state of affairs , I mean reaction as the antithesis of action . |
7 | The match revealed the Athletico lads had lost none of their flair and inadequacies for the game as they narrowly went down to a 7–2 defeat . |
8 | Despite the early hour , the eunuchs were all dressed and painted as if they were about to go out to a late-night nautch . |
9 | The teams played four matches , spread over several weeks , against each of the others , with the top two then going through to a best-of-three final . |
10 | One possibility is to choose two or three at a time , as above , and then go on to a few others . |
11 | The thumb da , da , yes , but , if you 're in it 's a cord of G , you 'll put a two on the B , final note , and then go up to a five on a G , not a one , it 's better to do that , see if you can try . |
12 | I sometimes go down to an 18 when maggot fishing or a single brandling or grain of sweetcorn on a 16 , but it is not very often such refinements are necessary . |
13 | He then went on to a pre-foundation course , then the intermediate course at Sutton Art School , followed by two years at Wimbledon Art School . |
14 | They will then go through to a grand final . |