Example sentences of "[adj] to go [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 but I hope however that he will be willing to go a few steps further .
2 I will not insult you by asking you to be my servant , Burkett , but nevertheless I could use a good man to drive this coach down to Grasmere , get me some fishing over a few days , be prepared to go the odd errand — about a week in all I would guess .
3 An Edinburgh man who 's fought for eight years to overturn a conviction for armed robbery says he 's prepared to go the European Court of Human Rights .
4 It is perhaps doubtful whether the Nordic states were really prepared to go the whole way to a common market .
5 Now the factory which developed it in the 60s looks set to go the same way .
6 Not only is it extremely easy to go the wrong way , and indeed many businesses have foundered on the basis of one , usually inadvertent , mistaken direction , but all of us are aware that a lot of businesses are n't going anywhere at all .
7 In contemporary Britain it seems almost impossible to go a single day without hearing , from some quarter or another , a senior policeman hectoring us on the deteriorated condition of public morals , while assuming the right to deliver homespun history lessons in which the past is lovingly remembered as a time of harmony .
8 As one would expect , incomers took a greater interest in discussing class — class is supposed to go a long way in explaining the membership of given social networks , and in the scope of such networks .
9 Are the children supposed to go every six months ?
10 Is he supposed to go the opposite way ?
11 That bullet would be lucky to go a hundred yards , but that was not the point .
12 Then if you want blue to go the other side of the hoop and black to go here say , to the black wo n't go quite so far and the blue will .
13 To find an English ancestor it was necessary to go a long way back in Richard 's genealogy — to one of his great-grandmothers , Edith , the wife of King Henry I. This English link , slight as it was , was none the less well known to the men who frequented the princely courts of Europe , for in their world family connection was all-important .
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