Example sentences of "[noun sg] go [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is appropriate for a case to go direct to the House of Lords it seems wrong that a litigant should be able to frustrate what appears to be a proper course . |
| 2 | The heat did not last for more than a few seconds , and when it had passed , Ciparis was left in an awful solitude , his cries for help going unanswered as the city burned above him . |
| 3 | Wind shaved over the new grass near Faith Lavender 's grave , and Dorothea Shottery 's cat went mad on the back lawn , leaping , rolling , falling over its own paws . |
| 4 | The news went unreported in the Press , so quickly had Chapman become football 's forgotten man . |
| 5 | ‘ This mare went clear round the cross-country . |
| 6 | Reports in the papers the following day spoke of a naked man going berserk on the street and being struck by a car . |
| 7 | The lift of autumn in the air went contrary to the trouble she could not make herself consider . |
| 8 | He glared back at Spatz and saw the man go white beneath the look . |
| 9 | Then , within two months of receiving it , his £30 million firm went bust in the Spring of 1991 . |
| 10 | Shorts returned the pressure and Beck 's drive went high over the net . |
| 11 | Sadly , our voice went unheard at the time . |
| 12 | HOLLYWOOD superstar Harrison Ford was left gasping when a spectacular film stunt went wrong during the making of his latest hit movie . |
| 13 | She told me that her other maid went mad in the spring . |
| 14 | I know about this bit from a telephone call from John — and I can still remember the click as the line went dead at the end of that conversation . |
| 15 | I have visions of bosses all over the land going hot under the collar as they see yet more of their staff enjoying the antics of this old salt — it could take over where Leisure Suit Larry left off . |
| 16 | The company went out-of-house for the base technology , hooking up with Unisource Systems Inc , experts in big-time disaster recovery . |
| 17 | He 'd been at the wrong end when a small company went bust in the city . |
| 18 | No doubt there are a few places where Stornoway citizens get drunk at Sunday lunchtime , indeed , there are quite a few of them , but their doors are shut to the public ; sin goes private on the Sabbath for it is public morality which counts in Sabbath observance . |
| 19 | He played in 20 Test matches and his post-war service to Yorkshire included three years as Club president , a position he vacated sadly when he found his calls for moderation went unheeded at the height of the Boycott controversy . |