Example sentences of "[noun sg] go [adv prt] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we then he says , then wha well cos what we 're saying is , then if your barrelage goes up to four barrels , say |
| 2 | In year 3 , demand has risen to 3,000 units so that the desired capital stock goes up to thirty machines — since the firm already has twenty , another ten must be purchased . |
| 3 | Average tax revenue went up from 34 p.c. of national income in 1979 to 40 p.c. in 1982 but this was necessary to eliminate public sector borrowing , which at some 6 p.c. of national income was an implicit ( deferred ) tax rate . |
| 4 | The rent went up to thirty pounds a week . |
| 5 | Odette 's weight went up to 17½ stone before she found the strength she needed to tackle her eating problem . |
| 6 | With Kuwait 's refinery capacity going up to 664,000 barrels of oil per day by the end of 1986 , KPC 's policy is to look for further outlets . |
| 7 | The take-off flare went up at 0440 hours and Colonel Seawell was the first away as Group Commander . |
| 8 | For motorists , at six o' clock , the price of petrol and diesel went up by three pence per litre . |
| 9 | Lectures often began as early as 5 or 6 a.m. in the summer ( 7 a.m. in the winter ) , and sometimes the first lecture went on for three hours , no provision being made for any food before 10 a.m . |
| 10 | Unleaded petrol and diesel go up by five pence to a gallon , but Leaded petrol is up by ten pence a gallon . |
| 11 | East Germany 's slender claim to legitimacy rests above all on the fraudulent implication that it is the good non-Nazi , never-Nazi Germany , any Nazi-supporters having joined the four million renegades whose Westward migration almost drained East Germany dry before the Wall went up on 13 August 1961 . |
| 12 | Hardly a month goes by without one newspaper or another announcing the development of a computer ‘ with which at last you can converse in ordinary English , not a programming language ’ . |
| 13 | thrashed them out of sight , could n't fucking believe it , when you 've seen a pool table , erm , pool game go on for two hours , that 's when you know you |
| 14 | The nitrate went down to 10–15 ppm , which is less than our local tapwater . |
| 15 | A cheer went up from 1,000 throats , greeting the floating city as it towered above Clydebank Town Hall . |
| 16 | However , piling operations began almost simultaneously and Alan Muir , construction director of Muir Construction of Inverkeithing , the main contractor , said that though the earth-moving phase at the beginning of the contract went on for four weeks , the piling operation began almost as soon as the firm moved on to the site . |
| 17 | Between 1862 and 1870 the size of the reserve went up from 210,000 men to 553,000 . |
| 18 | Sea level went up by 24 metres in less than 1,000 years , a rate of more than 24mm per year . |
| 19 | The Government went down by 71 votes and after a short Cabinet on the next morning ( 22 January 1924 ) he drove to Buckingham Palace and resigned . |
| 20 | The eight million square feet in the World Financial Centre went up in four years and defied all predictions . |
| 21 | The second phase of the attack went in on 26 September , a day when the weather was unusually fine , although the churned up , sodden ground remained impassable and treacherous . |
| 22 | The British bombardment on the Somme began on 24 June ( the infantry attack went in on 1 July ) and on that same day Falkenhayn stopped the massive flow of ammunition to Verdun and cancelled all reinforcements . |
| 23 | The machine is called a ‘ Fourdrinier ’ machine and mimics the hand process in a continuous conveyor belt fashion with wet pulp going on at one end and a dry roll of paper at the other . |
| 24 | Now you could have two buses doing that and forming fifteen minute service because one bus went out in thirty minutes another one fifteen minutes behind it , that came back so that the first bus was able to do the third one . |
| 25 | Upon a sale of land the purchaser is normally entitled to have produced to him and to investigate the deeds recording previous transactions in the land going back for fifteen years ( Law of Property Act 1969 : formerly the period was thirty years ) ; and though this period is sometimes reduced by agreement , the shortening of the period throws a risk on the purchaser , who is not only bound by all legal interests in the land which actually exist whether he discovers them or not , but also by all equitable interests which he would have discovered if he had insisted on an investigation for the longer period . |
| 26 | Press accreditation went out to 647 reporters , photographers and radio staff from all around the world . |
| 27 | The musical interlude went on for ten minutes and finished with the mad figures collapsing on the ground . |
| 28 | Valuable metal , plastic , cardboard , rubber , energy go in at one end ; Trabant cars worth less than the sum of these parts emerge at the other . |
| 29 | Erm , what Mr very carefully very carefully failed to mention of course is that the rates of has in fact gone up by eleven point one percent . |
| 30 | Rain fell , and the temperature went down to ten degrees Celsius . |