Example sentences of "[num ord] go [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars . |
| 2 | " Very well ; but , as we are going to the islands where there is such a darkness that a spoon might stand up in it , we must first go to the bright home of the sun and ask for one of his rays . " |
| 3 | I first go through the odd numbers in a seemingly random fashion 1 , 5,3,7 , 11 , 9 and then downwards with the even numbers 12 , 8 , 10 , 6,2,4 . |
| 4 | My hair jumps as I first go into the deep end |
| 5 | Unfortunately it is a very barren group , and when I first went to the southern hemisphere I had difficulty in identifying the pole star , Sigma Octantis , which is only of magnitude 5.5 , and is none too easy to see with the naked eye unless the sky is really dark and clear . |
| 6 | When he had given her the keys and the egg , and had left her , she first put the egg away with great care , and then examined the house , and at last went into the forbidden room . |
| 7 | They had last gone through the pointless business in the visitors ' room of a police station . |