Example sentences of "go [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Georgia guests used the small flat-bottomed craft to go bonefishing one afternoon , and Thessy , well trained by his father , led them unerringly to a sea-flat by a mangrove swamp where , in just a few heart-racing moments , they landed four of the gleaming and elusive fish . |
| 2 | ‘ You do n't want to go wasting that on a taxi . |
| 3 | Then would be the time to go seeking dear Mary again . |
| 4 | Three pairs of eyes focused on me and I felt like the family pet , the Old English sheepdog that 's lost its marbles and joined up with the wolf pack to go worrying innocent lambs . |
| 5 | We 're going angling first this week to the Bushyleaze Lake in Lechlade … the country 's top fly fishers have been in action in the British final of the Airflow Classic … |
| 6 | And then erm , as soon as the threshing was over , before you started ploughing , you 'd have two carts going carting this m this manure out and |
| 7 | So Dave said well let's , you know , you sit and eat , and eat , he said let's get up Christmas present , have a couple of Christmas presents , going swimming ten till twelve , perhaps go for a walk over the common or something , |
| 8 | And I I noticed with interest er I 'm really going shifting right back to er last week here , er the Housebuilders ' Federation er were all sort of putting the reverse argument forward . |
| 9 | I 'm going skiing next month for the first time . |
| 10 | Christopher is also going skiing next February with his school . |
| 11 | I was going shopping twenty years later with my parents and my own little girl Sara in her push-chair , when my mother said to my father , ‘ Are you going to nip into the Post Office ? ’ |
| 12 | Look , we 're going shopping this morning , we could drop it off if you like . |
| 13 | He said oh yes it 's ordered , I said great , huh , going shopping this afternoon , what do I do when I have n't got any cheques left ? |
| 14 | THE Jones family were celebrating last night after their pet terrier , Tiger , returned to their home at Welshpool , Powys , after going missing three years ago . |
| 15 | I do n't want her to go getting any wrong ideas about what 's become of me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ There he goes getting defensive . |
| 17 | We had to quickly change it back , but I only got one hook done up and she had to go holding one hand behind her back for the whole scene . |
| 18 | The 308D is not the fastest thing on the highway , but Harris has no wish for his drivers to go breaking any speed records . |
| 19 | she 's got to go running this morning |
| 20 | Ms Morrell attempts damage limitation by telling her boss to keep his mouth shut and not rock the boat , but on he goes collecting more enemies and being let down by erstwhile friends . |
| 21 | Well I said do n't go catching cold . |
| 22 | " Thou ca n't go using other people 's stuff like that . " |
| 23 | We went steaming first to work up an appetite . |
| 24 | ‘ Then he could go swimming any time he liked . |
| 25 | Latest of an endless line of east-coast politicos who have gone seeking Irish-American votes 3,000 miles still further east is Mr Harrison Goldin , comptroller and would-be mayor of New York city . |
| 26 | That 's really what they pay you for , those sort and if you do your job right , off they go looking six inches taller . |
| 27 | So do not let ourselves go seeking instant conversions or any of that jazz . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's all shit and blood , so do n't go believing any of the rubbish on That Thing . |
| 29 | Oh he , he went swimming one time and that was pretty good |
| 30 | Five little ducks went swimming one day |