Example sentences of "[conj] go [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If society is to impose extra burdens on farmers ' costs of production in order to preserve or go back to an idyllic view of the countryside , which may never have existed anyway , it must pay for it . |
| 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 | He said he was to have met another man at a school on Garscube Road in Maryhill and go on to an unknown warehouse . |
| 6 | ‘ So you are going to play Sherlock Holmes and go around with a magnifying glass looking for footprints ? |
| 7 | I always hang up promptly and go out for a nice cup of coffee to cheer myself up . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He crossed the track on his belly and went on up a further hundred yards before starting his circle . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | The music stopped and went on in a brisker six-eight rhythm . |
| 12 | Mahmoud turned on his heel and went off without a further word . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They left the deserted house , the old manservant locking the door behind them , and went down into a deserted Cheapside . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We crossed the footbridge and went out into a silent forecourt . |
| 20 | 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 ? |