Example sentences of "[conj] go [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This planning diary should show , for example , weeks in which certain lecture courses begin or in which certain work assignments are due for presentation ; weeks in which there are social or sporting events ; weeks in which you are free to take a break or to go away for a few days . |
| 2 | I fish such a bait on a 14 hook , or go down to a 16 if the bream are being finicky . |
| 3 | Well really when I had the same thing , you know , and goes back for a little bit this morning and er same sort of thing . |
| 4 | Canada dominated the scoring , leading 22–6 at the interval and by 19 points in as many minutes with outside-half Gareth Rees , back after a winter in France , scoring the first nine and going on to a 20-point afternoon . |
| 5 | They received a £500 Argos voucher from Caterplan and Booker Fitch Food Services and go forward to a grand final with Sutcliffe 's five other regional winners . |
| 6 | ‘ So you are going to play Sherlock Holmes and go around with a magnifying glass looking for footprints ? |
| 7 | She found a jasmine-scented corner of garden at the side of the house and sat down on a rustic wooden seat , watching twittering birds come and go fearlessly around a hanging seed basket . |
| 8 | I always hang up promptly and go out for a nice cup of coffee to cheer myself up . |
| 9 | Finishing the script , I would leave it for the typist and go home for a few hours ' nap until rehearsal time at two o'clock . |
| 10 | On every channel earnest-looking men with maps and pointers , looking like war-gamers in some fiendish Pentagon basement , demonstrate — predict , even — the inch-by-inch path that the storm is taking , noting that it usually passes off to the north , but may perhaps curve back upon itself and go in for a second strike . |
| 11 | He crossed the track on his belly and went on up a further hundred yards before starting his circle . |
| 12 | He stopped and went on in a low voice , ‘ I came back early from school and when I came in I saw she 'd been crying . ’ |
| 13 | The music stopped and went on in a brisker six-eight rhythm . |
| 14 | I was so physically tired that I slept as soundly as the corpses outside the window but , unlike them , awoke refreshed and went downstairs to a good breakfast . |
| 15 | Fifteen miles north , they put into St Abbs haven , under the mighty headland of that name , just before dawn , and went ashore for a few hours ' rest in a hay barn . |
| 16 | I picked a fight with the biggest one , which turned into a full-pitch playground battle , and went home with a bloody nose , two black eyes and a front tooth missing . ’ |
| 17 | Mahmoud turned on his heel and went off without a further word . |
| 18 | Others record that she patiently concluded the business then before the court , and went off with a reliable escort to hold a council with Bothwell about the taming of Liddesdale and empower him to hold courts in Hermitage itself . |
| 19 | His liking for convivial company , found only in the male-dominated bars of New Jersey , a throwback from his forebears of County Cork , eventually forced them into a difficult matrimonial situation from which he occasionally evacuated himself and went off on a drifting reconnaissance of the world outside . |
| 20 | It was Martin who took the reins and as he cried , ‘ Gee-up ! you there , you flibbertigibbet ! ’ the horse , as if recognising the voice , tossed its head and went off at a spanking pace down the road , and as they laughed , Harry said , ‘ Would you believe it ! |
| 21 | She received the watch and chain from the pawnbroker 's daughter , together with the new pawn ticket and fivepence , and went off in a pleasured state over the transaction , although a little worried that Queen Mary might find out that her naughty niece wanted to show her legs riding bareback on a circus horse . |
| 22 | Couville rose and went across to a long leaden tube . |
| 23 | They left the deserted house , the old manservant locking the door behind them , and went down into a deserted Cheapside . |
| 24 | Anna read the letter with incomprehension , then put Charlotte into her secondhand pram — donated by the Young Wives ' Group — and went out for a long and significant walk . |
| 25 | We crossed the footbridge and went out into a silent forecourt . |
| 26 | Except that they did not go , as promised , to the Rotunda , but went instead to a rival attraction advertised in Saunder 's News-Letter & Daily Advertiser : one , indeed , which ensured that Monsieur Jerricault 's Great Picture did not triumph in Dublin as it had done in London . |
| 27 | She could not keep from the house on the bay but went late for a brief evening swim and , elated with resolution , left soon after dinner . |
| 28 | Is the situation so serious that twenty-four hour care must be considered , whether the person is at home or considering going in to a residential home ? |
| 29 | However , Laura 's appetite for life had left them no choice but to go ahead with a second major transplant . |
| 30 | He said the company would decide around the middle of the year whether to go ahead with a major re-engineering of the advanced turboprop aircraft and revealed that launch aid was being sought from the Department of Trade and Industry . |