Example sentences of "[conj] go [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |
| 2 | If this is the case , it is better for employees to know and understand this before going abroad rather than to go out with high hopes only to return to Britain dispirited . |
| 3 | The most important , perhaps , is freedom from the restrictive grasp of the ‘ all together now ’ class teaching system that goes back to Victorian times . |
| 4 | The Penhill site may be the source of a story that goes back to Celtic mythology , " The Legend of the Giant of Penhill " . |
| 5 | He also dismissed the allegation — popular with some Christian mason-watchers — that freemasonry was founded in an x ‘ antiquity that goes back into pagan religions well before the birth of Christ ’ . |
| 6 | She said she had not heard that British scientists wanted to return him to Arctic waters , but warned that going back to cold temperatures , coupled with the need to hunt for food again , would be fatal . |
| 7 | ‘ At least the town escaped a 1970s style concrete flat roofed monstrosity of the type that went up in other town centres throughout the country , ’ she said . |
| 8 | Certainly , when Yeats chaired the Irish Senate committee that commissioned the Irish coinage ( so wonderfully handsome as it turned out to be ) , it was photographs of Sicilian Greek coins that went out to prospective designers to show them what the committee had in mind . |
| 9 | Well jus just to lighten the mood for a moment and to go along with high-falooting words here are some |
| 10 | He arrives spot on time , is introduced in 15 words and goes off at high speed . |
| 11 | Thanks to television … the nation had an armchair view of the violence : uprooted telegraph poles , rolling down the hill towards the police cordon ; a workmen 's hut dragged into the road and going up in petrol-fed flames ; a lone policeman with his truncheon repeatedly laying into a recumbent miner ; the wall of riot shields parting like the Red Sea as groups of police , in black one-piece suits and NATO helmets , dashed into the crowded pickets while a senior officer , with loud-hailer , encouraged them to ‘ take prisoners ’ . |
| 12 | The next day the RUC tried to block a 4,000 strong Paisleyite protest march from the centre of Belfast , but the marchers broke through and rampaged through the centre of the city breaking shop windows , stoning the Catholic-owned International Hotel and going on to Sandy Row where they tried to burn down a bookie 's shop which employed Catholics . |
| 13 | A medical model has a strict routine , whereas a social work model allows for more individual autonomy and choice in matters such as times of getting up , going to bed , and going out for independent activities , which might conflict with staff shifts and rotas . |
| 14 | Some evening she and Andrew would separate on the halfway landing and go up by different flights to meet and kiss at the top . |
| 15 | The age groups start at 19–24 and go up in five-year bands to 80-plus . |
| 16 | These two factors alone may well be responsible for making would-be divers leave and go on to other things . |
| 17 | She even acknowledges she was tempted to give up her job at one stage and go on to social security as she would then have been entitled to free legal aid . |
| 18 | We also learnt that one can integrate the interests of motorists by using bypasses to take through traffic away , and go in for traffic-calming measures which work . |
| 19 | They watched the three girls pair off with their brothers and go off in different directions . |
| 20 | Act and went on to other employment and trade union legislation . |
| 21 | He supervised several Rhodes scholars , who obtained their doctorates and went on to successful careers . |
| 22 | This started at about midday and went on until late afternoon , when everyone was so full of food that they could hardly move . |
| 23 | We Zed-bombed the barriers and went in with shielded skimmers . |
| 24 | In Cambridge she quickly established herself as a cult figure of mysterious portent : she claimed to be in love with her brother , whom nobody had ever seen , and went in for gnomic utterances and baroque clutter . |
| 25 | The street was narrow , cobbled , full of old buildings which were joined together and went back to medieval times . |
| 26 | I made sure I looked as if I 'd just got out of bed and dressed in a hurry — hence no socks and the sweatshirt — and went down to front garden to wave them in . |
| 27 | Girls who wore lipstick and silly clothes and went out with American soldiers were good as damned in his opinion . |
| 28 | And he got up , and at once took his stretcher and went out in full view of them all , so that they were astonished and praised God . |
| 29 | Figure 2 shows what happens when you tell the computer to obey exactly the same drawing rule , but going on to various depths of recursion . |
| 30 | Roy Poynter and Derek Seager both won one , but went down to unbeaten Dave Stenning . |