Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] go [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 2 | I watched his shaking shoulders go out of the gate and disappear round the corner . |
| 3 | How could the English boy go on living now that he 'd been found out ? |
| 4 | How do social workers go about investigating these complaints , and what leads them towards deciding that a child has been abused ? |
| 5 | Lots of different things go on when you listen : |
| 6 | For example , if your love life is thriving you can manage to maintain your diet , but as soon as there is an upset , or things are not going to smoothly , then your dietary resolutions go out of the window ? |
| 7 | Not surprisingly , left-inclined social scientists go on to take the view that good sense can only be made of British politics if the pluralist ideology is set aside and a start to understanding is made elsewhere than in the world of interest-group activity . |
| 8 | The roots of Serbian nationalism go back at least to the Empire of Stevan Dušan in the fourteenth century . |
| 9 | The , the U K pension charge will er er er go up to the extent that pensionable salaries go up , there 's a standard surplus being amortized au fait gently rising pension , I mean there 's obviously there 's an X percent of pensionable salaries is what the will tell you will have to provide and er er not much more at the moment er therefore the charge will go up a little bit but not , not gradually and it 's not much . |
| 10 | Mrs Reynolds was in the doorway , almost ready herself to go to the wedding — she never missed a wedding or a funeral — but seeing the procession that approached withdrew back into the shadows of the room to observe better the old cockerel go by followed by his dismayed pullets . |
| 11 | As hair gets tied back , so nail varnish comes off and old , stain-absorbing clothes go on . |
| 12 | Why should n't old Sombro go off for nights on the town if he felt like it ? |
| 13 | In the Alton and Bordon area , there is ‘ a constant trickle of demand , mainly for short-term fostering , ’ says the placement worker , who is convinced that , as the social services go out into the community and find out what is needed , ‘ the demand for short-term fostering will grow . ’ |
| 14 | Of all Christians , those of the Orthodox family have remained the most conservative , Their cultural roots go back to the Byzantine Empire and there has been no event for them comparable to the Reformation or Vatican II . |
| 15 | Links with Group marine coatings go back a long way . |
| 16 | The detailed battles go on between Her Majesty 's Treasury , whose constitutional role is to contain spending , and the spending departments that are responsible for the individual services and aware of the demands they are under and of the nature of the rising costs to which they are subject . |
| 17 | I 'll just have a wee bit go down and get something |
| 18 | He does n't , he does n't when i , when just ordinary people go round do they ? |
| 19 | Before I go to the supermarket , I usually stop off for a drink ; I sit at the bar and watch the real world go by . |
| 20 | Our Liberal colleagues go down to Leamington and ask the audience to believe that they are just as Liberal as ever they were . |
| 21 | This change of mood was gradual , but the germs of militancy within the deaf community go back to the war years , although the BDDA leadership responded to it only slowly . |
| 22 | Despite the fact that spiders are all over the place in Dostoevsky , not just in Svidrigailov 's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity , and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People , we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’ ) : Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light , noises from below , happy workmen , blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere , a lonely man in pain passing through gates , over thresholds , slipping up and down staircases , the buzzing By of Raskolnikov 's dream and his awakening , intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion . |
| 23 | Such beachcombing activities go on at numerous places around our ‘ sceptred Isle ’ . |
| 24 | One little puff , and your feeble defences go down |
| 25 | Kirsty added : ‘ Most people remember their weddings when they see a white Rolls go by . |
| 26 | In other words , they are reacting to the ‘ coalness ’ or ‘ oilness ’ of the chemical , rather than the chemical itself This theory stretches credibility considerably , because synthetic compounds go through so many chemical reactions , distillations and purification procedures that they bear little relationship to their raw materials , let alone to each other . |
| 27 | Tuppe made the electric window go up and down . |
| 28 | Yet , he is not sure all his countrymen benefit similarly from committing themselves to becoming fulltime professionals in the northern summer : ‘ There is a danger if fast bowlers go over when they are too young , ’ Tribe says . |
| 29 | But the government may have to let Kowloon 's shadowy firms go on polluting . |
| 30 | But the rook paid her no attention , did not fly at her crying in a human voice Go back ! |