Example sentences of "[noun sg] go [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly , creakily , he talked , like a cart pulled by a wise old horse going along a rough road . |
| 2 | Our most controversial cover last year showed a photograph of a red car going around a Swiss hairpin , with the headline ‘ Ford 's new Escort meets its rivals ’ , and then , underlined in red , ‘ … and loses ’ . |
| 3 | A car going up a dead end at speed was ‘ going nowhere fast ’ ; a ‘ cock and bull story ’ was more often , in his opinion , a ‘ hen and cow story ’ . |
| 4 | But do n't be fooled by the island 's exotic name or location just off Africa — once the sun goes down the whole place comes alive . |
| 5 | Because of the Government 's apparent lack of enthusiasm for all things European , and their determination to go along a slow track , will not Scotland lose out again without any chance of the central bank being cited in Glasgow or Edinburgh ? |
| 6 | So if you put a big heavy engine going down a cast iron railway which wo n't |
| 7 | Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ? |
| 8 | It must be able to run full-tilt down any of its tracks , anticipating every hazard on the surface that might trip it up and leaning into familiar bends like an experienced racing driver going round a well-practised circuit . |
| 9 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Drink went down the wrong way . ’ |
| 11 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 12 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 13 | at two o'clock on Saturdays and whizzes round the town doing wheelies round the town so I said to him last night Scott sit down I want you to read something , I said take a good look at the paper , I said it could 've been you , doing that , you think you 're so fucking clever and big running round the town , I said it only takes you to lose control go up the bloody curb and bang , that 's what happened , I said think about what the hell you 're doing |
| 14 | Lili 's cigarette smoke went down the wrong way . |
| 15 | The old woman went along a short passage , passed a scullery and continued on a few yards . |
| 16 | On Thursday the weedkiller train went up the Cambrian Coast , thus spending two nights at Machynlleth . |
| 17 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |
| 18 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
| 19 | This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy . |
| 20 | My Bud went down the wrong way and I had a fit of choking . |
| 21 | The roots of his disciplinarianism go back a long way . |
| 22 | The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way . |
| 23 | Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet . |
| 24 | US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses . |
| 25 | Dionne went for the outlaw type , or so she said , then mothered and civilised them until they were unrecognisable , and when her dream of civilised and raunchy equality went out the slammed door , there she was alone again , smoking a little more than usual , drinking a little more than necessary and swearing herself to celibacy until the next sulky brow slouched into view and stole her hopeful heart away . |
| 26 | She goes Dear Doctor Allen , My Mum and Dad went out the other day and I was bored so I started rubbing my dog and my dog got turned on and so did I . |
| 27 | Mother Francis stood at a window and watched little Eve go down the long avenue of the convent out to Sunday lunch on her own with the Hogans . |
| 28 | ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’ |
| 29 | The final stage goes up a smooth incline that appears to have been man-made , possibly to ease the passage of materials for the erections on the top . |
| 30 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |