Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] go [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 2 | The Fishguard-based crabber Inspire went down in a calm sea when a huge wave swamped it . |
| 3 | She was not disappointed ; if a firebell had gone off within a yard of his ear , he could not have appeared more shaken . |
| 4 | Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win . |
| 5 | More than 100 jobs have been axed , a For Sale sign has gone up over a large slice of its assets and chief executive Andros Stakis has been ousted . |
| 6 | And what started as a language-game had to go on as a lie , or a myth . |
| 7 | Do the Bank want to go back to a time when a male official could not get married until he was earning £150 per annum and by the time he was earning that sum he was past having an interest in marriage . |
| 8 | The thing has gone on in a different way from previous years , and the outcome , as you 've observed , although the Liberal Democrats initially proposed spending at capping , they have gone down by half a million pounds . |
| 9 | The House of Lords allowed the defendant 's appeal with the result that the case had to go back for a retrial eleven years after the plaintiff had suffered damage . |
| 10 | As I write , the invitation has gone out to a thousand mainstream church leaders to attend a London conference , ‘ to equip church leaders who desire to develop the gift and ministry of prophecy . ’ |
| 11 | Farrar was educated at the Rev. Thomas Arnold 's private oral school at Northampton and was a child prodigy who passed both the London University and Cambridge University examinations by the time he was 17 , and could no doubt have gone on towards a degree had he been inclined to do so . |
| 12 | Dad 's gone up for a bath . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Your mother has gone off on a little holiday , ’ he had announced vaguely and Katherine had returned to New York and to school . |
| 14 | Jane tried to comfort Flora by telling her that her own two younger children had got itchy feet at sixteen too , and left school : her son had gone on to a sixth form college which he found highly satisfying — ‘ One 's treated like an adult , ’ and her daughter to do a foundation course in art . |