Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] 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 | How could the English boy go on living now that he 'd been found out ? |
| 3 | The roots of Serbian nationalism go back at least to the Empire of Stevan Dušan in the fourteenth century . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Why should n't old Sombro go off for nights on the town if he felt like it ? |
| 6 | I 'll just have a wee bit go down and get something |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Tuppe made the electric window go up and down . |
| 10 | But the rook paid her no attention , did not fly at her crying in a human voice Go back ! |
| 11 | The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way . |
| 12 | Yet , a large number go on and eventually do reasonably well academically , the implication being that sporting involvement may not be so detrimental to education as it might appear . |
| 13 | I heard the church clock strike two and some time after that I saw Matthew Choak 's little van go by . |
| 14 | On a day which saw the All-Ireland side go down to England 16-2 , Curran made a strong start in her under 18 confrontation with Kate Warne-Holland . |
| 15 | ‘ Should the Manchester United game go out live , any local club affected are entitled to compensation . ’ |
| 16 | She 'd had to dash to HQ Communications , as the Colonel had insisted his coded message go out that evening . |
| 17 | This means that in larger groups most of the interactions and mutual grooming go on between members of female pairs while the male only grooms with one or two of them . |
| 18 | Though only a small proportion go on to develop diabetes , these subjects have an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease . |
| 19 | ‘ I was just watching one of the big interplanetary craft go up . |
| 20 | The roots of the UK 's industrial decline go back a long way , certainly more than a century . |
| 21 | Beats International could be found there almost every night watching a strange world go by . |
| 22 | Before purchasers of a faulty building go out and celebrate , let me point out that , while the act penalises those who commit an offence , it does not help those against whom the offence is committed . |
| 23 | Some aspects of open enrolment go back to the 1980 Education Act . |
| 24 | She leaned on the armrest , trying not to think of the time , and watched the grim scenery go by . |
| 25 | Many of the rules for knitting these stitches on single bed go out of the window as soon as you bring the second bed into operation . |
| 26 | The roots of parental involvement go back to the 1950s when primary schools began to have an identity of their own , an identity far removed from the old all-age elementary schools of pre-war years . |
| 27 | Sharks of essentially modern type go back to the Jurassic . |
| 28 | SCRAM found itself caught in the middle between those who felt nonviolent protest was the only way and those who really wanted to see the whole place go up in smoke . |
| 29 | The bases will not be closed until a sufficient number go in and dismantle them , and uranium will be exported till the opposition is strong enough to physically prevent it . |
| 30 | I have heard of a café near the Opera , where , if you sit long enough , they say you can see the whole world go by . |