Example sentences of "the [noun] go [adv prt] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The majority go on to point out that if the law were to punish ‘ rape between cohabiting spouses … immediate imprisonment might not be appropriate ’ and that imprisonment would be most unlikely where no injury was sustained by the wife . |
| 2 | ‘ Victor , ’ came the voice from the dark , if the ropes go on jamming like this we are going to definitely die . |
| 3 | It will only be the fourth year before the accounts go back to independent examination . |
| 4 | ‘ The accounts go out every six months , ’ he reminded her with a frown . |
| 5 | If this is the case go on to the next step . |
| 6 | A great tradition of the Tour is the family picnic , eaten at the roadside as the riders go by . |
| 7 | The birds go round and round , going faster and faster , and making nasal ‘ twanging ’ calls as they do so . |
| 8 | And what he used to do in this , he had a string in the and er he could the string put some some er crumbs in the in the er in a and the birds go in and he used to he used to catch them and we used to kill them and pluck them you know . |
| 9 | ‘ If the proposals go through as they are , a higher proportion of Scottish output would be harder hit than any other region of the EC . ’ |
| 10 | As the hours go by , it 's clear that neither Gilbert nor George is particularly miserable . |
| 11 | Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river . |
| 12 | The actual signal for the ladder party to open the window and go will of course be when all the lights in the camp go out . |
| 13 | The researchers go on to draw some general conclusions from the results of this study . |
| 14 | er we have er a ski machine coming from Gloucester which is going to let people have a go and er get them in the right position , and when they do it right all the bells go off , so it 's a fun day for people to come and have a go on things . |
| 15 | As the generations go by , under the assumption of blending inheritance , variation is bound to become swamped . |
| 16 | It manifestly is n't true that variation disappears as the generations go by . |
| 17 | The nonrandom survival and reproductive success of individuals within the species effectively ‘ writes ’ improved instructions for survival into the collective genetic memory of the species as the generations go by . |
| 18 | It is repeatedly being copied and recopied as the generations go by , like the Hebrew scriptures which were ritually copied by scribes every 80 years to forestall their wearing-out . |
| 19 | Therefore , in the population , this form of the gene will become more numerous as the generations go by . |
| 20 | We have seen that a very important part of a gene 's environment is the other genes that it is likely to meet in successive bodies as the generations go by . |
| 21 | Gazelles , no less than cheetahs , are subject to cumulative selection , and they too will tend , as the generations go by , to improve their ability to run fast , to react swiftly , to become invisible by blending into the long grass . |
| 22 | In my hypothetical discussion of cheetahs and gazelles I said that cheetahs , unlike the weather , had a tendency as the generations go by to become ‘ better hunters ’ , to become more severe enemies , better equipped to kill gazelles . |
| 23 | This means that , as the generations go by , the total amount of genetic difference from the original ancestor can become very large , cumulatively , one small step at a time . |
| 24 | The brakes go on automatically in a runaway . ’ |
| 25 | urge the tides go out , |
| 26 | The politicians may say Blah but the computers go on saying 0110100 or whatever it is , and it 's the people who can make sense of that who 'll be in the top bunk when the dam breaks . |
| 27 | Over sunken farms where the bats go round , |
| 28 | So when on 16 August the letter drops on the door mat , the phone call comes from school , or the lists go up on the notice board , teenagers who have failed to get the right grades for that coveted university of polytechnic place may feel that the world has come to an end . |
| 29 | We want more people to use them , from particular divisions , i.e. if you 've got common numbers , you ca n't really say numbers to the handset adequately , the system has been proved to be , so it 's a lot easier to have common numbers and publish them in the telephone directory , so look out for that when next the lists go round to update it , update the telephone directory . |
| 30 | when I came in the other day , I might have a look now actually get some Chewitts for the kids go on looking something for myself |